Entry № 6937 · Italian origin

Modesta Modesta — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
Italian
Meaning
"Modest, gentle"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "modest, gentle".

Modesta is a name of Italian origin, meaning modest and gentle.

Modest, gentle — a Italian name.

The name in its native script.

Modesta
Transliteration
Modesta
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

Where Modesta stands.

Modesta 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.

Modestas before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Modesta.

The number behind Modesta.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Modesta reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.