Musa Forename
124th
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 3,438,292 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
Nigeria
Highest density in:
Gambia
Musa Forename Definition:
Musa is a given name of the Lozi tribe, meaning: mercy.
Musa Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 100% | 2,407,040 | 1:74 | 1 |
| Turkey | 100% | 147,749 | 1:527 | 77 |
| Tanzania | 100% | 130,519 | 1:404 | 57 |
| Sudan | 88% | 115,616 | 1:327 | 48 |
| Uganda | 98% | 83,435 | 1:491 | 94 |
| Sierra Leone | - | 63,392 | 1:112 | 20 |
| Indonesia | 89% | 44,544 | 1:5,791 | 742 |
| Pakistan | 100% | 39,181 | 1:4,961 | 722 |
| Gambia | - | 38,907 | 1:50 | 9 |
| Ethiopia | 100% | 37,451 | 1:2,605 | 449 |
| Kenya | 96% | 32,097 | 1:1,443 | 280 |
| India | 95% | 29,558 | 1:41,101 | 5,652 |
| Bangladesh | 51% | 29,052 | 1:5,489 | 746 |
| South Africa | 88% | 27,313 | 1:1,997 | 322 |
| South Sudan | 51% | 19,222 | 1:601 | 148 |
| Afghanistan | 97% | 16,690 | 1:1,955 | 350 |
| Burundi | 100% | 15,931 | 1:622 | 186 |
| DR Congo | 94% | 12,880 | 1:5,732 | 700 |
| Malaysia | 98% | 11,732 | 1:2,595 | 250 |
| Russia | 99% | 11,442 | 1:12,606 | 411 |
| Azerbaijan | 100% | 10,455 | 1:922 | 226 |
| Liberia | 99% | 10,438 | 1:423 | 84 |
| Somalia | - | 9,614 | 1:1,407 | 232 |
| Zimbabwe | 52% | 8,425 | 1:1,831 | 337 |
| Philippines | 98% | 7,973 | 1:13,296 | 1,637 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 6,819 | 1:4,519 | 715 |
| Cameroon | 100% | 6,357 | 1:3,399 | 606 |
| Libya | - | 6,059 | 1:1,027 | 199 |
| Swaziland | - | 4,639 | 1:280 | 34 |
| Israel | 99% | 4,599 | 1:1,827 | 387 |
| Zambia | - | 4,037 | 1:3,927 | 605 |
| Rwanda | 100% | 3,867 | 1:2,941 | 600 |
| Ghana | 100% | 3,652 | 1:7,389 | 793 |
| United States | 94% | 2,810 | 1:129,017 | 5,304 |
| Kazakhstan | 100% | 2,459 | 1:7,217 | 717 |
| Egypt | 100% | 2,407 | 1:38,181 | 2,410 |
| Kosovo | - | 2,104 | 1:885 | 196 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 99% | 2,100 | 1:2,844 | 479 |
| England | 84% | 1,840 | 1:30,219 | 1,692 |
| Germany | 100% | 1,832 | 1:52,772 | 1,485 |
| Bulgaria | 100% | 1,770 | 1:3,949 | 563 |
| Angola | - | 1,754 | 1:15,374 | 1,486 |
| Albania | 100% | 1,482 | 1:2,056 | 449 |
| Spain | 100% | 1,074 | 1:43,324 | 1,845 |
| Cambodia | 100% | 1,026 | 1:15,861 | 1,615 |
| Mali | - | 994 | 1:17,080 | 1,278 |
| Uzbekistan | 100% | 873 | 1:35,265 | 1,762 |
| Poland | 100% | 848 | 1:44,843 | 1,238 |
| North Macedonia | 100% | 825 | 1:2,534 | 488 |
| Togo | - | 824 | 1:8,785 | 1,321 |
| Georgia | 100% | 653 | 1:5,725 | 633 |
| Malawi | 100% | 613 | 1:27,916 | 2,262 |
| France | 100% | 565 | 1:117,647 | 2,422 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 523 | 1:13,675 | 1,449 |
| Thailand | 100% | 481 | 1:145,667 | 10,754 |
| Sweden | 99% | 476 | 1:20,710 | 1,436 |
| Serbia | 100% | 438 | 1:16,314 | 1,152 |
| Northern Cyprus | 100% | 435 | 1:731 | 120 |
| Austria | 100% | 400 | 1:21,286 | 935 |
| Belgium | 100% | 382 | 1:30,079 | 1,897 |
| Netherlands | 100% | 340 | 1:49,712 | 3,407 |
| Botswana | 67% | 327 | 1:6,680 | 1,060 |
| Canada | 100% | 267 | 1:124,095 | 5,768 |
| Papua New Guinea | 70% | 258 | 1:31,598 | 3,149 |
| Brazil | 100% | 257 | 1:833,604 | 23,172 |
| Switzerland | 100% | 245 | 1:33,524 | 1,800 |
| Ukraine | 94% | 236 | 1:192,796 | 1,262 |
| Nepal | 62% | 232 | 1:122,790 | 6,310 |
| Tajikistan | 100% | 229 | 1:36,572 | 1,927 |
| Turkmenistan | 100% | 227 | 1:24,110 | 568 |
| Oman | - | 212 | 1:19,381 | 1,688 |
| Qatar | 100% | 169 | 1:14,021 | 2,196 |
| Montenegro | 100% | 159 | 1:3,991 | 642 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 100% | 145 | 1:24,307 | 1,783 |
| Denmark | - | 145 | 1:38,962 | 1,659 |
| Iraq | - | 145 | 1:241,502 | 3,830 |
| Djibouti | - | 130 | 1:7,044 | 654 |
| Brunei | 100% | 112 | 1:3,746 | 385 |
| Morocco | - | 109 | 1:315,125 | 6,796 |
| Kuwait | - | 104 | 1:36,397 | 3,425 |
| Jordan | - | 98 | 1:90,069 | 1,968 |
| Norway | 100% | 94 | 1:54,599 | 2,186 |
| Greece | 100% | 91 | 1:120,160 | 3,019 |
| Bahrain | - | 89 | 1:15,154 | 2,209 |
| Lesotho | 92% | 71 | 1:28,732 | 3,382 |
| Argentina | 98% | 64 | 1:668,332 | 4,244 |
| Australia | - | 64 | 1:213,400 | 5,174 |
| Iran | - | 64 | 1:1,226,514 | 9,532 |
| Finland | 87% | 52 | 1:105,446 | 2,452 |
| Eritrea | 87% | 49 | 1:97,000 | 118 |
| China | - | 47 | 1:29,065,017 | 60,971 |
| Japan | - | 46 | 1:2,782,306 | 22,277 |
| Belarus | 97% | 45 | 1:210,720 | 1,779 |
| Namibia | - | 44 | 1:54,640 | 3,265 |
| Scotland | 73% | 41 | 1:130,497 | 2,774 |
| Singapore | 100% | 41 | 1:153,343 | 8,029 |
| Italy | 87% | 38 | 1:1,606,897 | 12,030 |
| Wales | 60% | 37 | 1:83,630 | 2,261 |
| New Zealand | - | 34 | 1:133,413 | 5,144 |
| Armenia | 100% | 30 | 1:97,292 | 2,513 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 30 | 1:1,006,730 | 21,651 |
| Mexico | 50% | 29 | 1:4,280,842 | 18,370 |
| Slovenia | 100% | 27 | 1:91,065 | 2,759 |
| Congo | 87% | 25 | 1:200,368 | 6,244 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 100% | 24 | 1:56,726 | 4,855 |
| Jamaica | - | 21 | 1:137,297 | 5,200 |
| Ireland | 100% | 19 | 1:244,396 | 4,129 |
| Croatia | 100% | 19 | 1:221,951 | 3,696 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 19 | 1:549,014 | 14,985 |
| Benin | 100% | 18 | 1:587,547 | 18,316 |
| Burkina Faso | 100% | 17 | 1:1,081,145 | 29,013 |
| Panama | 100% | 16 | 1:244,160 | 8,726 |
| Taiwan | 75% | 14 | 1:1,697,834 | 48,176 |
| Equatorial Guinea | - | 9 | 1:126,410 | 509 |
| Syria | - | 9 | 1:2,145,119 | 4,120 |
| Guinea | - | 8 | 1:1,482,331 | 4,333 |
| Guyana | 100% | 8 | 1:95,408 | 7,334 |
| South Korea | - | 7 | 1:792,060 | 15,859 |
| Senegal | - | 6 | 1:2,430,226 | 14,702 |
| Chile | 80% | 5 | 1:3,521,442 | 19,163 |
| Hong Kong | - | 5 | 1:1,550,545 | 7,446 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 5 | 1:21,949 | 2,239 |
| Czechia | 64% | 4 | 1:2,664,040 | 5,608 |
| Mozambique | - | 4 | 1:6,810,839 | 3,114 |
| Myanmar | - | 4 | 1:12,987,068 | 1,965 |
| Nicaragua | 100% | 4 | 1:1,504,584 | 16,652 |
| Niger | 100% | 4 | 1:4,795,998 | 43,246 |
| Peru | 50% | 4 | 1:7,947,864 | 48,688 |
| Portugal | - | 4 | 1:2,602,716 | 8,189 |
| Tunisia | - | 4 | 1:169,226 | 7,289 |
| Hungary | 100% | 3 | 1:3,263,924 | 4,413 |
| Lebanon | 100% | 3 | 1:1,875,857 | 11,580 |
| Lithuania | - | 3 | 1:983,961 | 3,563 |
| Maldives | - | 3 | 1:144,634 | 3,056 |
| Vietnam | 100% | 3 | 1:30,874,371 | 5,995 |
| Yemen | - | 3 | 1:8,765,584 | 9,038 |
| Abkhazia | - | 2 | 1:121,711 | 2,524 |
| Algeria | - | 2 | 1:19,088,360 | 22,377 |
| Honduras | - | 2 | 1:4,408,734 | 23,808 |
| Iceland | - | 2 | 1:183,008 | 5,215 |
| Ivory Coast | 100% | 2 | 1:11,537,966 | 95,271 |
| Romania | - | 2 | 1:10,025,988 | 47,037 |
| Northern Ireland | - | 1 | 1:1,843,146 | 3,737 |
| Barbados | - | 1 | 1:289,789 | 3,893 |
| Belize | - | 1 | 1:354,309 | 7,663 |
| Bermuda | - | 1 | 1:64,826 | 2,481 |
| British Virgin Islands | - | 1 | 1:31,250 | 1,787 |
| Chad | - | 1 | 1:13,598,398 | 15,363 |
| Colombia | - | 1 | 1:47,778,926 | 95,497 |
| Costa Rica | 100% | 1 | 1:4,767,948 | 27,206 |
| Ecuador | - | 1 | 1:17,726,919 | 31,775 |
| Fiji | - | 1 | 1:892,378 | 3,968 |
| Grenada | 100% | 1 | 1:108,125 | 4,208 |
| Guatemala | - | 1 | 1:16,108,429 | 13,998 |
| Haiti | - | 1 | 1:10,726,953 | 41,696 |
| Laos | - | 1 | 1:6,586,856 | 1,888 |
| Latvia | 100% | 1 | 1:2,015,645 | 6,531 |
| Liechtenstein | - | 1 | 1:37,856 | 1,091 |
| Luxembourg | 100% | 1 | 1:564,049 | 5,042 |
| Macau | - | 1 | 1:608,209 | 2,350 |
| Malta | - | 1 | 1:429,360 | 3,141 |
| Mauritius | - | 1 | 1:1,297,784 | 13,721 |
| Moldova | - | 1 | 1:3,561,139 | 8,690 |
| Monaco | 100% | 1 | 1:38,466 | 2,379 |
| Mongolia | 100% | 1 | 1:2,934,814 | 16,205 |
| Paraguay | 100% | 1 | 1:7,236,805 | 16,549 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 1 | 1:3,550,301 | 10,040 |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | - | 1 | 1:54,861 | 2,604 |
| Saint Lucia | 100% | 1 | 1:177,815 | 8,104 |
| Slovakia | - | 1 | 1:5,310,063 | 9,949 |
| Suriname | - | 1 | 1:552,811 | 5,457 |
| Transnistria | - | 1 | 1:475,638 | 2,115 |
The alternate forms: Muša (36) & Müsa (3) are calculated separately.
Musa (3,943,852) may also be a surname.
Musa Forename Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
Musa is a given name of the Lozi tribe, meaning: mercy.
— The Names of Zambia (2019) by Simboma Mubita Lukama
Arabic (masculine) - Drawn from the water.
— What is Your Name? (1863) by Sophy Moody
A Latin name, meaning: A song.
— Dictionary of Given Names with Origins and Meanings (1934) by Flora Haines Loughead
Musa Forename Popularity
Musa Demographics
Musa Religious Adherence
in Russia
Sample size: 576 (2016)
Religious Adherence
in Russia
Phonetically Similar Names
Musa Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Musa in the Russian language | ||
| Муса | musa | - |
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