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Modesty

#8,699 in 2025Girls' name

Moderate

Modesty has been given to 583 babies in the U.S. since 1960. In 2025 it ranked #8,699 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 25 recorded.

Babies named Modesty, 2025

1 in 276,000

Modesty over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Modesty: meaning, origin, and history

Moderate

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Modesty means

Modesty means “moderate”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 583 girls were recorded with the name Modesty between 1960 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 25 in 2019; its best national rank was #4,450 in 1995.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,119 in 2020 to #8,699 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #8,293 in 2015 to #8,699 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Modesty?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 276,000
12 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 134,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#8,699
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Modesty sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Modesty. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Modestys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Modesty was born before 2007 — so the typical Modesty is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
30.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
68.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
583
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 30.7% of all recorded uses (179).

Is Modesty 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
+84
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,580
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−406
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.86×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
48.0%
Peak was 2019 (25)
Years since peak
6
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,450
1995

Spellings of Modesty

Modesty is not the most common spelling — Honesty is, with 51.4% against Modesty's 5.9%.

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 Modesty is used

Across 1910–2025, Modesty was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 614,046 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 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. Modesty has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Modesty around the world

Where Modesty 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.

  • France
    1987–1991
    #3,157
    in 1991

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Modesty by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#8,699
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,580
Best rank ever
#4,450
1995
Peak year
2019
25 that year
First recorded
1960
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
583
Count in 2025
12

Names similar to Modesty

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Modesty

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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