Mousa vs Moussa

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Mousa Moussa

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 43 years in which either name was published, Moussa for 33 years and Mousa for 10 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

• 1978–1987 Mousa ahead
• 1988 Moussa ahead
• 1990 Mousa ahead
• 1991–1992 Moussa ahead
• 1993–1995 Mousa ahead
• 1996–2025 Moussa ahead

Side by side

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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