Mustafa

Mustafa is the 4,476th most common surname in the United States, shared by 7,685 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 38,900.

By the numbers

People: 7,685
Rank: 4,476th
How common: 1 in 38,900
Per 100,000: 2.6

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 52.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 21.7%
Black, not Hispanic 15.2%
Hispanic or Latino 5.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Mustafa

Isa Mustafa (born 1951)Kosovo Albanian politician
Isaiah Mustafa (born 1974)American actor and former NFL practice squad wide receiver
Haitham Mustafa (born 1977)Sudanese footballer
Nujeen Mustafa (born 1999)Syrian refugee and disability rights activist

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

Surnames like Mustafa

Also a first name

Mustafa has been given to 7,373 American babies as a first name since 1963, peaking in 2025. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

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.