Môdêste
surname · Latin script
Môdêste is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 834 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. Recorded meaning: From the Latin name Modesta, a feminine form of Modestus, from the adjective modestus (“moderate, calm, restrained, mild”).
- GDGrenada1 in 288(measured from records)
- KNSt. Kitts & Nevis1 in 18K
- VCSt. Vincent & Grenadines1 in 20K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 60 (measured from records)
- 1 in 288 (inferred from the name graph)
834 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Grenada
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Modeste in US United States, BR Brazil.
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)From the Latin name Modesta, a feminine form of Modestus, from the adjective modestus (“moderate, calm, restrained, mild”).
Cited for this meaning 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Russian Names
- Wiktionary
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Môdêste is found
(measured from records)Môdêste 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 834 | 1 in 399K | 901 | Modeste | 60 |
| GD Grenada | 393 | 1 in 288 | 393 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 256 | 1 in 827K | 256 | Modeste | 18 |
| BE Belgium | 70 | 1 in 167K | 70 | — | 2 |
| GY Guyana | 19 | 1 in 39K | 19 | — | — |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | 5 | 1 in 20K | 5 | — | — |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | 3 | 1 in 18K | 3 | — | — |
| DM Dominica | 2 | 1 in 37K | 2 | — | — |
834 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025); St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026; Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025. 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Môdêste mean, and where does it come from?
- From the Latin name Modesta, a feminine form of Modestus, from the adjective modestus (“moderate, calm, restrained, mild”). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Russian Names and 1 other source.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Môdêste?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 834 people named Môdêste, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled modeste. After it come Grenada, Brazil, Belgium and Guyana; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Môdêste most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Môdêste is densest in Grenada — about 1 in 288 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Môdêste?
- In the United States, the national register counted 834 people named Môdêste in 2010, about 1 in 399 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/m%C3%B4d%C3%AAsteThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Môdêste” — ranked 28202nd in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.