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Musab

Masculine

1984high 2023
#2145 in the U.S.given to only a few children a year
rare67 boys in 2025

Musab was the first envoy of Islam — sent to Medina before the migration — and he died at Uhud holding the banner.

How old is the name Musab?

Musab first appears in US birth records in 1984 — 41 years ago. The typical Musab is a kid of about 8 — this name's wave is very recent. About 900 people named Musab are estimated to be alive in the US today.

When was the name Musab most popular?

Musab peaked in 2023, reaching #2097 nationally. Today it ranks #2145, 48 places below that high. See the whole 2023 chart.

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Where it comes from

The story of Musab

Mus'ab ibn Umayr was among the wealthiest young men of Mecca and gave it up for Islam; sent ahead to Medina, he converted much of the city before the Prophet arrived. He was killed at Uhud carrying the standard, and the accounts of his burial in a cloak too short to cover him are famous. The name is in current American use.

Meaningscholars disagree

Not established

The Arabic mus'ab is generally read as an untamed or spirited stallion, from a root relating to difficulty and hardness. The reading is standard but the sense range is debated. The name is chiefly known through the companion Mus'ab ibn Umayr.

How the name formed

  1. mus'ab
  2. Musab

Related forms: مصعب · Mus'ab · Musab

Pronouncing Musab

MOO-sahb

Two syllables, stress on the first. Arabic has an emphatic s and an ayin English cannot reproduce.

Nicknames for Musab

Moderate

MusThe front clipping, used inside families rather than generally
SabThe back of the name, used inside families rather than generally
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What the data says

The long climb, and where it stands now

BOYS NAMED · 1984–202570350706719842025

US babies named Musab per year from 1984 to 2025
AVERAGE RANK BY DECADE#1#10#100#1000#20971980s2020s

The same years in position rather than babies

First recorded
1984
Most boys named
202370 — the highest on record
Peak rank
#2097reached in 2023
Change vs 2024
+8.1%67 in 2025, from 62
Musab sits in the rare tail. Its best year on record was 2023, with 70 boys. Today it is given to few enough children that it does not enter the ranked charts at all.

Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.

Musab in other languages

The same name elsewhere

  • مصعب in Arabic — transliteration
  • Mus'ab in English — spelling variant
  • Musab in Turkish — same name

Strongest US states over the last decade: Minnesota, Ohio, New York.

Musabs among us

900

people named Musab are estimated to be alive in the US today

About 1 boy in 25,494 born in 2025 was named Musab

Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method

Spellings of Musab

#2145
Musab on the 2025 chart
#849
counting every spelling

The SSA counts spellings, not names. Musab went to 67 boys in 2025, but Musaab is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 79, which makes it the 849th most-given boys’ name of the year — 1,296 places above the chart.

  • Musab67
  • Musaab12

About 1 boy in 21,621 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 25,494 for Musab itself.

Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method

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Is it right for you

The Adil test

Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Musab's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Adil climbed just as high around 1997, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Adil's path sketches the road Musab is walking now.

40%chance Musab will feel “very 2020s” by 2040
Musab, aligned on its peakAdil· peak 1997not yet written
#1#10#100#1000peak-40 yrs+30 yrsAdil · #3053Musab today
Musab today is about where Adil stood in 1999 — 2 years past a #2096-sized peak. By 2014, Adil had settled around #2934.
Ages quietlysteadyDates fast

Musab sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.

A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored

Where Musab is headed

19842030

US babies named Musab per year, 1984 to 2025, with a projection to 2030

Musab looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 18% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds.

Rising+18% by 2030projected around #2,036 in 2030

Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.

A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.

Musab beside its neighbors

The names ranked closest to Musab in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.

Musabthis name67#2145Shayan67#2145Adair67#2145Hosea67#2145Banner67#2145

US boys given each name in 2025.

The trade-off

Practical strengths
  • The first envoy of Islam and a martyr at Uhud carries it.
  • The untamed-stallion reading is vivid where it holds.
  • Two clean syllables with no pronunciation risk in English.
What to consider
  • The exact reading of the Arabic is debated.
  • The emphatic s and the ayin are lost in English.
  • It reads as specifically Muslim.

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Frequently asked

How many Musabs are there in the world?
No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 900 people named Musab are estimated to be alive in the US today.
How do you spell Musab?
Musab is the most-used spelling in US records — 67 of the 79 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Musaab.
How popular is the name Musab in 2025?
Musab ranks #2145 among US boy names in 2025, with 67 babies given the name.
How rare is the name Musab?
About 1 in every 25,494 US boys born in 2025 was named Musab — 67 in all.
Will my child share the name Musab with classmates?
Musab will almost certainly be the only one in school.

Ranked beside Musab

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Shayan#2145 · Adair#2145 · Hosea#2145 · Banner#2145 · Wendell#2145 · Alastair#2145 · Jahsir#2145 · Baylen#2145

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