Modestia

given name · Latin script

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

Modestia is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: modesty.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 7.8M(measured from records)
  • ITItaly≈1 in 8.8M

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)

27 people, 2022

Sources
13 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 7.8M (inferred from the name graph)

Brazil

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

modesty

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Modestia 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 Modestia is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil271 in 7.8M116Modestia13
IT Italy≈7 est.≈1 in 8.8Mlisted——
FR France——listed——

27 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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 — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); the xinhua-italian-manual register. 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)

Modestia is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Modéstia

11 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Modestia is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Latin, moderation, sophrosyne

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

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 4 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Modestia
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—116#56,623
IT Italy意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual)———

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Modestia mean, and where does it come from?
modesty Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Modestia a male or female name?
Modestia is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Modestia have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 27 people named Modestia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled modestia.
Where is Modestia most common?
Modestia is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 7.8 million people carrying it.
How common is the name Modestia?
In Brazil, the national register counted 27 people named Modestia in 2022, about 1 in 7.8 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, “Modestia”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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