Given name

Mustafá

Mustafá is a masculine given name from Arabic. It is used in Spanish and Portuguese.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Mustafá comes from Arabic.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Arabic مُصْطَفَى.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Mustafá’s family of names

In Portuguese usage, Mustafá has a conventional equivalent in the Turkish form Mustafa. In Portuguese usage, Mustafá has a conventional equivalent in the Chinese form 穆斯塔法.

Walk Mustafá’s family in the name graph

MustafáMústafaMustafa穆斯塔法

Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.

Hover or tab through the constellation to see how each name is related. Bigger dots are names more people in the U.S. share.

Around the world

Mustafá has relatives in 3 languages. Lines run from its Arabic roots to each of them.

Arabic

2 related names in 3 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.

Each dot marks where a language is rooted, not where people with the name live today. Bigger dots hold more names. Language locations from Glottolog (CC BY 4.0); map from Natural Earth.

Spellings & scripts 1

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

Across languages 2

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

People named Mustafá

Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.

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Sibling ideas

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