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The first name 
Mousa

Mousa is a first name for boys.

Mousa – one in 100,000!

There’s a good chance that a boy named Mousa in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Mousa in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Mousa by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Mousa ranks at #4,395. That means there are 4,394 more common boys names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Mousa.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Mousa

Mousa -
once in a blue moon

Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Mousa. Boys named Mousa have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it a few years ago: At No. 3,375 Mousa ranked higher than ever before in 1982. By comparison, there have been 105 years in which the first name Mousa has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 1991. In general, parents name their sons Mousa only once in a blue moon, so boys and men with this name can consider themselves exceptional!

In years where the graph has no value, the name Mousa was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

Mousa in 2022 – a precious jewel

In 2022, Mousa continues to be a precious jewel: 20 newborns were named Mousa that year, ranking #4,181 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Mousa, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.

Mousa -
at home in

Meeting a man or boy named Mousa is something really special. Out of all 50 states, men and boys named Mousa can be found in only : . No other state currently has residents named Mousa. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few men and boys called Mousa living in one state or another. (If your name is Mousa and you live outside of , we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further.) Either way, the name is quite rare. The best chance of meeting a Mousa is in Michigan, as there live more men and boys with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in Michigan, only 0.00016% of all male residents are called Mousa – that’s just one in 629,035! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 10 men going by that name. So, if your name is Mousa, chances are you will never meet another man bearing that extraordinary first name.

Mousa has 5 letters 
and begins with an M

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter M is a particularly popular initial letter for boys’ names – 6.2% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for boys’ names are J and A.

With five letters, the name Mousa is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

That means that with 6.2% of all boys' names that begin with an M, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. If you are now wondering which boys’ name with M is the most common... the answer is Michael.

Other names with 
M, o, u, s and a

If you take all the letters in the name Mousa – M, o, u, s and a – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Masuo or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Mousa

If your name is Mousa and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Mousa

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Mousa, you can simply say:

Mouse

Orange

Unicorn

Sun

Apple

This is how the name Mousa is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Mousa in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Mousa

Mousa

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Mousa

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Mousa is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

M
O
U
S
A

Have you ever waved the name Mousa

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

M
O
U
S
A

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Mousa sounds like this: