Mostafa
From Arabic, where it means "chosen". In Poland it stays rare: around 112 men carry it, given to boys only and less often now than the typical name.
Mostafa Pronunciation
Mostafa is pronounced mos-TAH-fah (/mɔsˈtafa/).
What Mostafa means
Where Mostafa comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Mostafa comes from Arabic, from muṣṭafā, meaning "chosen" or "selected." The word is the passive form of a verb for choosing, for singling something out. It became famous as al-Mustafa, "the chosen one," a title given to the Prophet Muhammad, and that is why the name spread so far across the Arabic-speaking world and past it, into Persian and Turkish use. The spelling Mostafa is especially common in Egypt and Iran.
The grounding files its origin under "other" rather than one tidy root, and that fits a name carried through several languages before it ever reached a Polish form. It reached Poland late. It stays rare here. A boy named Mostafa on a school class register usually points to a family with ties elsewhere, an Egyptian father or a Turkish grandparent.
Meaning "chosen," it has never needed a diminutive to soften it, and Polish gives it none. There is no set imieniny for Mostafa, no fixed date on the calendar. What the name keeps is the plain sense it began with. Chosen. Wybraniec.
How many people are named Mostafa
1 in 190591 men in Poland is named Mostafa. 112 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3217 among male names.
Mostafa as a middle name
Mostafa is a first name for 112 men in Poland and a middle name for another 36, a 76/24 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1356th, between Moses (36) and Mściwoj (36).
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#1354 Miles36
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#1355 Moses36
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#1356 Mostafa36
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#1357 Mściwoj36
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#1358 Nasser36