Moderata is the Latin word for "moderate, modest." Moderata Fonte (pen name of Modesta Pozzo, 1555-1592) was the *Venetian Renaissance writer whose dialogue The Worth of Women (Il merito delle donne, 1600, posthumously published) is one of the earliest sustained feminist philosophical works. Seven women gathered in a Venetian garden debate the worth of women versus men — Moderata herself died at 37 in childbirth before its publication. Her chivalric romance Tredici canti del Floridoro* also broke ground by giving female knights heroic roles.
Featured in modern feminist anthologies of Italian Renaissance literature.
Moderata does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Moderata reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.