Humanverse

Modeste

Modeste reached its high-water mark in 1890 at number 1,006, and has been recorded 8 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 1890.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 3 5 8 10 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Modeste

By the numbers

Total US births
8
Peak year
1890
Best rank
1,006th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1890

Notable Modestes

People named Modeste with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Names of 1890

The most popular girls’ names the year Modeste peaked:

All the names of 1890

Modeste elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
France boys Modeste 1,155 232nd
France girls Modeste 645 360th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Related names

Modeste against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

Compare Modeste with a name of your own

Try it on yourself

Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published.