Musa
Last seen for girls in 1926 at #4,851 · #469 for boys in 2025, 651 births
Given to boys 99.5% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 651 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 6,109since 1970
Musa over time
Rank among boys' names. Musa has never cracked the top 400 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #469 | 651 | |
| 2024 | — | #523 | 568 | |
| 2023 | — | #653 | 418 | |
| 2022 | — | #718 | 367 | |
| 2021 | — | #747 | 341 | |
| 2020 | — | #744 | 326 | |
| 2019 | — | #794 | 289 | |
| 2018 | — | #747 | 317 | |
| 2017 | — | #829 | 268 | |
| 2016 | — | #950 | 219 | |
| 2015 | — | #930 | 228 | |
| 2014 | — | #999 | 206 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,211 | 148 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,106 | 168 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,285 | 133 | |
| 2010 | — | #1,316 | 130 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,459 | 114 | |
| 2008 | — | #1,620 | 96 | |
| 2007 | — | #1,464 | 109 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,492 | 102 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,869 | 68 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,911 | 64 | |
| 2003 | — | #2,006 | 57 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,888 | 59 | |
| 2001 | — | #2,386 | 41 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,993 | 51 | |
| 1999 | — | #2,063 | 46 | |
| 1998 | — | #2,312 | 38 | |
| 1997 | — | #2,502 | 32 | |
| 1996 | — | #2,073 | 41 | |
| 1995 | — | #2,500 | 30 | |
| 1994 | — | #2,951 | 24 | |
| 1993 | — | #3,042 | 22 | |
| 1992 | — | #2,467 | 29 | |
| 1991 | — | #2,469 | 28 | |
| 1990 | — | #3,166 | 19 | |
| 1989 | — | #2,902 | 21 | |
| 1988 | — | #2,860 | 19 | |
| 1987 | — | #2,942 | 17 | |
| 1986 | — | #3,268 | 14 | |
| 1985 | — | #4,052 | 10 | |
| 1984 | — | #2,437 | 20 | |
| 1983 | — | #2,676 | 17 | |
| 1982 | — | #2,596 | 18 | |
| 1981 | — | #3,601 | 11 | |
| 1980 | — | #3,256 | 13 | |
| 1979 | — | #3,018 | 14 | |
| 1978 | — | #3,215 | 12 | |
| 1977 | — | #3,386 | 11 | |
| 1976 | — | #3,264 | 11 | |
| 1975 | — | #3,246 | 11 | |
| 1974 | — | #3,318 | 10 | |
| 1973 | — | #2,857 | 12 | |
| 1972 | — | #2,991 | 11 | |
| 1971 | — | #4,907 | 5 | |
| 1970 | — | #4,724 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Musa! It came in at #4,724, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1970–1971, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Musa is popular in 2016
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- New York#459 · 1 in 2,778
- Virginia#500 · 1 in 2,972
- Massachusetts#639 · 1 in 4,906
- Illinois#645 · 1 in 4,278
- Washington#667 · 1 in 4,115
Best ever in a state: #142 in Delaware, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | #459 | 36 | 1 in 2,778 |
| Virginia | #500 | 14 | 1 in 2,972 |
| Massachusetts | #639 | 6 | 1 in 4,906 |
| Illinois | #645 | 15 | 1 in 4,278 |
| Washington | #667 | 9 | 1 in 4,115 |
| Michigan | #702 | 10 | 1 in 4,774 |
| Pennsylvania | #725 | 10 | 1 in 5,923 |
| Maryland | #795 | 5 | 1 in 5,512 |
| Missouri | #838 | 5 | 1 in 6,322 |
| Georgia | #841 | 9 | 1 in 5,975 |
| New Jersey | #875 | 6 | 1 in 6,921 |
| Arizona | #887 | 5 | 1 in 7,209 |
| Texas | #927 | 23 | 1 in 8,053 |
| Ohio | #1,052 | 6 | 1 in 9,887 |
| California | #1,140 | 18 | 1 in 12,427 |
| Florida | #1,150 | 9 | 1 in 10,882 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Musa
- 54 spots since 2024 (#523 → #469)
- 275 spots since 2020 (#744 → #469)
- 461 spots since 2015 (#930 → #469)
- Biggest jump: 212 spots in 2014 (#1,211 → #999)
- Biggest drop: 47 spots in 2019 (#747 → #794)
- Debuted 1970
- Peaked 2025 at #469 (651 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 12 yrs · run 2014–2025
- Highest: 1 in 2,624 boys born in 2025 were named Musa (0.04%)
- 43.7% of all boys named Musa (2,671) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 102 | #2,857 (1973) | #3,493 |
| 1980s | 160 | #2,437 (1984) | #3,059 |
| 1990s | 309 | #2,063 (1999) | #2,555 |
| 2000s | 761 | #1,459 (2009) | #1,809 |
| 2010s | 2,106 | #747 (2018) | #1,017 |
| 2020s | 2,671 | #469 (2025) | #642 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Musa in 2016
Top boys' names in 2016
More about 2016
boys
1,897,738 boys got a published name in 2016; 1 in 8,665 of them was named Musa, which outranked 93.3% of the 14,207 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.