Modesta
Modesta is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 7 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 70.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 192641 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1890
- 1,615people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,615 girls have been named Modesta in the United States since 1890, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1926, with 41 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1940, and the 1930s alone account for 17%.
By decade
| Decade | girls named Modesta | |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 10 | |
| 1900s | 47 | |
| 1910s | 184 | |
| 1920s | 261 | |
| 1930s | 279 | |
| 1940s | 209 | |
| 1950s | 145 | |
| 1960s | 147 | |
| 1970s | 120 | |
| 1980s | 82 | |
| 1990s | 50 | |
| 2000s | 59 | |
| 2010s | 10 | |
| 2020s | 12 |
In 1926, its biggest year
Modesta was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1926 were Mary, Dorothy, Betty, Helen and Margaret. See all of 1926.
Names that rose and fell with Modesta
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Melvapeak 1938
- Delorapeak 1917
- Lavonpeak 1924
- Germainepeak 1928
- Herminiapeak 1929
- Lavenapeak 1922
- Erminiapeak 1923
- Florettapeak 1930
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.