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Mustafa

Mustafa. Attested in United States of America, Spain, Belgium, Norway, Slovenia, France, Poland, Italy, Denmark, Ireland, borne by about 11,726 people in the registers this map holds.

The same name, inflected

A rule of the language rather than an opinion. Polish makes Kowalski and Kowalska of one surname.

Mustafy

The same name, spelt two ways

One systematic substitution — s for z, w for v, ch for h — where BOTH spellings are independently attested surnames. Kosina and Kozina are one man in two clerks' handwriting. Stronger than sounding alike, weaker than somebody having checked.

MustaffaMustaphaMusthafaMusztafa

What Wikidata says this name is

Copied from Wikidata, not worked out here. It is crowd-sourced and wrong in places, which is why the item is linked below rather than the claim simply repeated.

  • Turkish the language of the name

    Which is not where a family is from. A Polish surname can be borne by people whose forebears never saw Poland, and often is.

Q37518119 on Wikidata ↗ — the item every line above came from.

Where it came from

No place of this name is in the gazetteer, so this map says nothing about where the name came from. Search a surname anywhere else and you will be told an origin — that it is Latin, or Italian, or means «joyful». That is etymology, it is usually unsourced, and it is a different question from the one answered here.

Where it is borne, and where a record names it

Attested in 10 countries: United States of America, Spain, Belgium, Norway, Slovenia, France, Poland, Italy, Denmark, IrelandDenmark — attested, not countedIreland — attested, not countedItaly — 17 peoplePoland — 66 peopleFrance — 89 peopleSlovenia — 224 peopleNorway — 939 peopleBelgium — 1,600 peopleSpain — 2,918 peopleUnited States of America — 5,873 people
A dot is a country, not a place. It sits at the country's centre because a national register counts a country; nothing here says where in it these people are. A hollow ring is attested but not counted — Denmark publishes which surnames exist and not how many carry each, and a family archive finds a name without counting heads. Sizing those by a number nobody published would invent it. Blank is not absence. This draws the 10 countries where the eleven registers and eight archives behind this atlas attest the name. Most of the world has no surname register this project can read, and the ones that do and will not are listed with the reason.
Belgium, by commune. 1,600 people in 82 of Belgium's 565 communes, counted by Statbel. The biggest is Antwerpen with 248. This is the only country here that can be drawn this way — every other register counts a country and stops, so a blank elsewhere is a gap in what states publish, not in the name.
82 places drawn, the largest being Antwerpen, Gent, Schaarbeek, Sint-Niklaas, Brussel, Namen, Aalst, Anderlecht, Evere, TurnhoutBastenaken — 11Deinze — 11Hamme — 11Verviers — 12Zele — 12Zaventem — 12La Louvière — 13Lokeren — 13Grimbergen — 13Dilbeek — 13Willebroek — 13Mortsel — 13Hoei — 15Sint-Gillis-Waas — 15Mechelen — 16Vilvoorde — 18Charleroi — 19Heusden-Zolder — 20Genk — 20Hasselt — 21Beringen — 21Seraing — 21Beveren-Kruibeke-Zwijndrecht — 21Leuven — 22Luik — 24Oostende — 24Sint-Jans-Molenbeek — 24Sint-Joost-ten-Node — 25Boom — 26Brugge — 27Turnhout — 27Evere — 29Anderlecht — 40Aalst — 41Namen — 44Brussel — 47Sint-Niklaas — 81Schaarbeek — 118Gent — 130Antwerpen — 248

Country by country

Each country below can carry up to three different kinds of evidence, and none of them is the same claim. A register is a head-count — a state counted these people. A record is one document naming the surname on that ground, narrower evidence and often much older. And a volume overlapping these dates is a document from the right place and years — never a document known to name this surname. None of the three ever means the name exists in that country and nowhere else, or that it exists nowhere but here.

United States of America

5,873 Borne — a state counted them — Frequently Occurring Surnames from the 2010 Census; Frequently Occurring Surnames from the 2000 Census.

Whose archive to write to

51,519 of 528,875 volumes held for United States of America overlap the 1940s, 1950s, 1970s and 2000s — the decades Mustafa is attested here. Too many to list, and this atlas does not know whether any one of them names Mustafa. The commonest kinds: Civil registration and vital records, Probate, land and notarial, Immigration and emigration, Church and parish registers. See everything this atlas holds for United States of America →

Spain

2,918 Borne — a state counted them — Frecuencia de apellidos, Censos de población (INE).

Whose archive to write to

This atlas has no birth-year evidence for Mustafa in Spain, so it cannot narrow Spain's 35,936 volumes by date — see Spain's own page for all of it.

Belgium

1,600 Borne — a state counted them — Family names by municipality, 1 January 2026 (Statbel, TA_POP_LST_2026).

Whose archive to write to

This atlas has no birth-year evidence for Mustafa in Belgium, so it cannot narrow Belgium's 24,426 volumes by date — see Belgium's own page for all of it.

Norway

939 Borne — a state counted them — Etternavn brukt av 200 personer eller flere (SSB tabell 12891).

Whose archive to write to

Slovenia

224 Borne — a state counted them — Family names, Slovenia, 2026 (SURS tables 05X1015S–05X1018S).

Whose archive to write to

This atlas has no birth-year evidence for Mustafa in Slovenia, so it cannot narrow Slovenia's 1,585 volumes by date — see Slovenia's own page for all of it.

France

89 Borne — a state counted them — Fichier des noms de famille 1891–2000 (INSEE, fichier national).

Whose archive to write to
Attested here, and nothing that survives covers those years

Mustafa is attested in France in the 1990s. Not one of the 1,513 volumes this atlas holds for France covers those years — worth knowing before an afternoon is spent on France's shelf rather than after.

Poland

66 Borne — a state counted them — Nazwiska występujące w rejestrze PESEL (z uwzględnieniem osób zmarłych).

Whose archive to write to

This atlas has no birth-year evidence for Mustafa in Poland, so it cannot narrow Poland's 15,686 volumes by date — see Poland's own page for all of it.

Italy

17 Borne — a state counted them — Italian comuni publishing their residents' surnames as open data, indexed by the national catalogue dati.gov.it..

Whose archive to write to

101,839 of 1,288,913 volumes held for Italy overlap the 1820s — the decades Mustafa is attested here. Too many to list, and this atlas does not know whether any one of them names Mustafa. The commonest kinds: Civil registration and vital records, Church and parish registers. See everything this atlas holds for Italy →

Denmark

Borne — a state counted them — Navne registreret i Danmark, January 2020 (Danmarks Statistik, republished by Digitaliseringsstyrelsen).

Whose archive to write to

This atlas has no birth-year evidence for Mustafa in Denmark, so it cannot narrow Denmark's 4,099 volumes by date — see Denmark's own page for all of it.

Ireland

Borne — a state counted them — Surnames of babies with ten or more occurrences, 2023–2025 (CSO, VSA110).

Whose archive to write to

This atlas has no birth-year evidence for Mustafa in Ireland, so it cannot narrow Ireland's 1,568 volumes by date — see Ireland's own page for all of it.

When it was being born, in France

INSEE counts births by surname and decade from the état civil, 1891 to 2000 — the only dated evidence in this dataset. A name that starts at zero and climbs arrived; a name that falls to nothing left, died out, or emigrated, and the decade it stops is the decade to stop searching. It counts births registered in France, so a family that emigrated in 1900 simply stops appearing, which is information rather than a defect. This name's first French births fall in 1921–1930 and its last in 1991–2000.

  • 1891–1900 —
  • 1901–1910 —
  • 1911–1920 —
  • 1921–1930 1
  • 1931–1940 1
  • 1941–1950 —
  • 1951–1960 —
  • 1961–1970 11
  • 1971–1980 19
  • 1981–1990 27
  • 1991–2000 30

Whose archive held that ground, and when

Every surname site can tell you a name is common somewhere. This one also knows which filing system held that ground in which years — and those are the two halves of one question: my people were called this, they were there, so who has the paper, and for which century. A name in Croatia before 1881 may sit in a military series and not a county one; a name in the Netherlands before 1811 has no civil record at all, only a baptism.

This is about the ground, not about your family. A register counting a name in a country says nothing about which village. And these are the pieces of a country this atlas has drawn, which in a large one may be a corner of it — Acadia reaches into Maine and is not a statement about the United States, and Bohemia's ground crosses into Poland. Each region's own page says which ground it covers. Where a country is missing below, nothing covers it yet.

United States of America
Belgium
Norway
  • Norway 3 eras Denmark–Norway → Norway in union with Sweden, with its own constitution → Norway
Slovenia
  • Central Istria 8 eras Aquileia → Habsburg → Napoleonic → Austria–Hungary → …
  • Carniola and the Slovene lands 8 eras Inner Austria → Austria → The Illyrian Provinces → Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, then Yugoslavia → …
France

Regions are also drawn in 4 other countries where this name is attested, further down the register's own list. The order here is how many people a register counted, so the countries above are the ones the name most belongs to.

No record region is drawn yet for Spain — which is a gap in this atlas and not a statement about that country.

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