Musa

5,155 people in the United States were counted with the surname Musa in the 2020 census, making it the 6,341st most common in the country. That is about one person in 58,000.

By the numbers

People: 5,155
Rank: 6,341st
How common: 1 in 58,000
Per 100,000: 1.7

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Musa described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Black, not Hispanic 43.3%
White, not Hispanic 40.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 6.5%
Hispanic or Latino 6.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.1%

Notable people called Musa

Ahmed Musa (born 1992)Nigerian association football player
Petar Musa (born 1998)Croatian footballer
Said Musa (born 1944)3rd Prime Minister of Belize from 1998 to 2008
Džanan Musa (born 1999)Bosnian basketball player
Salama Musa (1887–1958)Egyptian newspaper editor
Nabawiyya Musa (1886–1951)Egyptian feminist
James Musa (born 1992)New Zealand footballer
Abdullah Musa (born 1961)Emirati footballer

People named Musa with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Musa

Also a first name

Musa has been given to 6,140 American babies as a first name since 1891, peaking in 2025. See it as a given name.

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.