Modell
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Modell has been given to 196 babies in the U.S. since 1909. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1920, with 18 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 95% girls, 5% boys all-time.
Babies named Modell, 1935
1 in 299,000
Modell over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Modell over time
In 1935, Modell went to 100% girls and 0% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Modell?
Modell had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1935, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1935
- 1 in 299,000
- 7 of 2,089,888 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 150,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1935
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 206,944 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Modell sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1935 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 206,944 children born in 1935 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Modell. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Modells were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Modell was born before 1920 — so the typical Modell is around 105 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 50.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 97.3%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 0
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 50.8% of all recorded uses (95).
Is Modell rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1920 (18)
- Years since peak
- 105
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 44.5% average annual change
Spellings of Modell
Modell is not the most common spelling — Adell is, with 14.8% against Modell's 0.44%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Modell is used
Across 1910–2025, Modell was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,535,115 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
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Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Modell has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Modell by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Modell
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Modell
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.