Modéna

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Modéna is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Latin Mutina, from Etruscan 𐌌𐌖𐌕𐌍𐌀 (mutna).

rarermore common
  • GYGuyana1 in 750K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 1.8M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

182 people, 2020

Sources
101 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 750K (inferred from the name graph)

Guyana

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Modene in US United States and Modena in FR France.

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)

Derivation of Modéna: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Modéna
  1. LatinMutina(measured from records)
  2. Etruscan𐌌𐌖𐌕𐌍𐌀mutna(measured from records)

From Latin Mutina, from Etruscan 𐌌𐌖𐌕𐌍𐌀 (mutna).

Sources 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
  • 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
  • Wiktionary
  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Modéna 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 Modéna is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1821 in 1.8M425Modene22
GY Guyana11 in 750K1——
FR France——36Modena101
BR Brazil——2.4K——
UY Uruguay——167——

182 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling modena. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 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).

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

Modéna is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Modena, Módena

  • English name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Italy, United Kingdom, Ghana

    Also written Modena

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 Modéna 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 Modéna mean, and where does it come from?
From Latin Mutina, from Etruscan 𐌌𐌖𐌕𐌍𐌀 (mutna). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and 3 other sources.
In which country does Modéna have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 182 people named Modéna, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled modene.
Where is Modéna most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Modéna is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 750 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Modéna?
In the United States, the national register counted 182 people named Modéna in 2020, about 1 in 1.8 million 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, “Modéna”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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