Modena
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Modena has been given to 683 babies in the U.S. since 1882. 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 1921, with 33 recorded.
Babies named Modena, 1958
1 in 517,000
Modena 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Modena?
Modena had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1958, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1958
- 1 in 517,000
- 8 of 4,133,550 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 251,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1958
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 358,146 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Modena sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1958 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 358,146 children born in 1958 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Modena. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Modenas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Modena was born before 1923 — so the typical Modena is around 102 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 31.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 25.5%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 28
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 31.0% of all recorded uses (212).
Is Modena 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 1921 (33)
- Years since peak
- 104
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 27.6% average annual change
Spellings of Modena
Modena is not the most common spelling — Mona is, with 25.9% against Modena's 0.39%.
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 Modena is used
Across 1910–2025, Modena was most concentrated in Arkansas — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 172,822 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Arkansas1 in 100,000
- 2Mississippi1 in 100,000
- 3Texas1 in 100,000
- 4Tennessee1 in —
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. Modena has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Modena around the world
Where Modena ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- France2006–2006#5,167in 2006
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Modena by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Modena
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Modena
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.