Módena

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in Portuguese: Modena (a city and province of Emilia-Romagna, Italy)

Módena is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • UYUruguay1 in 20K(measured from records)
  • ITItaly≈1 in 30K
  • BRBrazil1 in 88K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (measured from records)

2,414 people

Sources
84 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 20K (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Modena in BR Brazil, IT Italy.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Modena (a city and province of Emilia-Romagna, Italy)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

How Módena is read(measured from records)

Módena is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Portuguese64%

    Modena (a city and province of Emilia-Romagna, Italy)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Spanish27%

    Modena (a province of Emilia-Romagna, Italy)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Lao6.2%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Módena in Lao.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Módena counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Módena is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil2,4141 in 88K2.4KModena84
IT Italy≈2,100 est.≈1 in 30KlistedModena30
US United States3811 in 873K425—49
FR France≈190 est.≈1 in 363K36—2
UY Uruguay1671 in 20K167Módena15
AR Argentina1531 in 297K153Módena31
CH Switzerland411 in 205K41—4

2,414 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Módena is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Lao surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos

    Also written โมเดน่า, Modena

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Mödena, Modena, Mòdena

  • French given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States

    Also written Modena, Modene, Modène, Modéna, Modènà

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Modéna, Modena

3 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Módena under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Módena mean, and where does it come from?
Modena (a city and province of Emilia-Romagna, Italy) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Módena have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 2.4 thousand people named Módena, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled modena.
Where is Módena most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Módena is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 20 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Módena?
In Brazil, the national register counted 2,414 people named Módena, about 1 in 88 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Módena”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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