Given name & surname
Mussa
Mussa is a surname from Arabic. It is used in English, Italian, and Catalan.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1982. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Mussa through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 152
- 152 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2013
- 12 babies
- 2025
- 8
- #9,439 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −25%
- Easing
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 8 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 9,439 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 325 as a first name in 2020; 1,002 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Mussa’s family of names
In Catalan usage, Mussa shares a linguistic root with the Turkish form Musa. In Catalan usage, Mussa has a conventional equivalent in the English form Musa. In English usage, Mussa as a surname has a related form in Musa.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Mussa
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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