Mustapha
An Arabic name meaning "chosen", carried only by men in Poland. It stays rare here: most Poles will go a lifetime without meeting one, and the register rarely logs a newborn who bears it.
Mustapha Pronunciation
What Mustapha means
Where Mustapha comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Mustapha comes from the Arabic Mustafa, meaning chosen. The word sits in the vocabulary of election, of being singled out from others. In Islamic tradition al-Mustafa, the Chosen One, is an honorific given to the Prophet Muhammad. That association gave the name its standing across the Arabic-speaking world.
The spelling with ph followed French routes into North Africa. You meet Mustapha most in Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia, while Turkish and Ottoman records keep the plain Mustafa. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk bore that older form as his given name, and several Ottoman sultans were named for it.
On a Polish class register the name reads as a guest from elsewhere. It arrives with families who settled here, and it holds its sense intact. Mustapha still says chosen.
How many people are named Mustapha
1 in 213462 men in Poland is named Mustapha. 100 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3460 among male names.
Mustapha as a middle name
Mustapha is a first name for 100 men in Poland and a middle name for another 7, a 93/7 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 3982nd, between Muneer (7) and Nabi (7).
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#3980 Mukhtar7
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#3981 Muneer7
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#3982 Mustapha7
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#3983 Nabi7
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#3984 Ngonidzashe7