Modesto

Boys’ name Recorded 1908-2025

Modesto was given to 8 boys in 2025, #9,428 among boys’ names; 2,559 Americans have been recorded with it since 1908 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).

An estimated 1,690 Americans named Modesto and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (66% of everyone recorded); the median is 44 years old and half are between 28 and 60.

Babies named Modesto each year, first recorded in 1908

Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).

Modesto or Conrado Names of the 1920s Names in Texas

Births of Modesto by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.

What does Modesto mean?

Wiktionary, Spanish section

Modesto is “a male given name, feminine equivalent Modesta” Its etymology gives the sense “modest” (literally).

Borrowed from Latin Modestus (literally “modest”).

/moˈdesto/

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary, entry Modesto (Spanish), CC BY‑SA 4.0. Quoted from the entry; text after a cross-reference to another sense is left out.

Meaning: Wiktionary, Spanish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).

How popular is Modesto?

#9,428 among boys’ names, 2025

Modesto fell from #7,860 in 2015 to #9,428 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 5.2 to 4.7 per million.

37 babies in 1927, the peak

Modesto peaked in 1927, when 37 boys were given it, #1,192 among boys’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 22% of that peak.

Modesto by year
Year	Births	Rank	Per million boys
2025	8	#9,428	4.7
2024	11	#7,583	6.4
2023	13	#6,770	7.6
2022	14	#6,369	8.0
2021	14	#6,225	8.0
2020	14	#6,185	8.1
2019	8	#9,452	4.5
2018	10	#7,970	5.5
2017	8	#9,416	4.3
2016	10	#7,959	5.3

Every recorded year (115)

Year	Births	Rank	Per million boys
2015	10	#7,860	5.2
2014	9	#8,569	4.7
2013	12	#6,894	6.3
2012	10	#7,939	5.3
2011	14	#6,143	7.4
2010	16	#5,647	8.3
2009	16	#5,726	8.1
2008	19	#5,004	9.3
2007	22	#4,457	10.6
2006	21	#4,454	10.2
2005	14	#5,776	7.0
2004	21	#4,207	10.6
2003	22	#3,920	11.1
2002	19	#4,272	9.8
2001	31	#2,966	16.0
2000	35	#2,656	17.8
1999	26	#3,155	13.5
1998	30	#2,759	15.7
1997	23	#3,228	12.2
1996	24	#3,074	12.7
1995	28	#2,658	14.7
1994	27	#2,730	14.0
1993	23	#2,993	11.7
1992	28	#2,575	14.0
1991	37	#2,034	18.3
1990	34	#2,144	16.6
1989	26	#2,517	13.0
1988	30	#2,114	15.7
1987	20	#2,682	10.7
1986	31	#1,947	16.8
1985	29	#1,999	15.7
1984	25	#2,137	13.9
1983	27	#1,994	15.1
1982	20	#2,486	11.0
1981	31	#1,843	17.3
1980	34	#1,716	19.1
1979	31	#1,818	18.0
1978	28	#1,856	17.1
1977	26	#1,933	15.8
1976	32	#1,665	20.4
1975	20	#2,263	12.8
1974	27	#1,774	17.2
1973	32	#1,534	20.5
1972	37	#1,406	22.8
1971	30	#1,622	17.0
1970	32	#1,509	17.2
1969	37	#1,312	20.7
1968	26	#1,559	15.0
1967	25	#1,559	14.3
1966	25	#1,565	14.0
1965	22	#1,701	11.8
1964	16	#2,085	8.0
1963	23	#1,683	11.3
1962	27	#1,534	13.1
1961	23	#1,720	10.8
1960	36	#1,332	16.9
1959	34	#1,354	15.9
1958	37	#1,274	17.4
1957	27	#1,536	12.5
1956	19	#1,868	9.0
1955	23	#1,631	11.2
1954	12	#2,393	5.9
1953	26	#1,495	13.2
1952	21	#1,690	10.8
1951	26	#1,478	13.8
1950	22	#1,597	12.3
1949	24	#1,532	13.5
1948	29	#1,372	16.5
1947	23	#1,581	12.6
1946	24	#1,459	14.8
1945	26	#1,318	19.3
1944	27	#1,306	19.8
1943	19	#1,680	13.3
1942	27	#1,348	19.5
1941	25	#1,362	20.4
1940	21	#1,507	18.1
1939	17	#1,692	15.4
1938	25	#1,357	22.5
1937	16	#1,805	15.0
1936	13	#2,032	12.5
1935	27	#1,317	25.9
1934	16	#1,831	15.5
1933	16	#1,808	16.1
1932	23	#1,499	22.0
1931	25	#1,417	24.0
1930	25	#1,486	22.8
1929	29	#1,332	27.0
1928	28	#1,405	25.3
1927	37	#1,192	32.8
1926	28	#1,395	25.2
1925	34	#1,242	30.5
1924	22	#1,710	19.4
1923	20	#1,797	18.2
1922	10	#2,936	9.2
1921	11	#2,742	10.0
1920	14	#2,303	13.2
1919	14	#2,226	14.3
1918	20	#1,748	19.7
1917	18	#1,789	19.4
1916	19	#1,678	21.3
1915	18	#1,696	21.2
1914	11	#2,062	16.8
1913	8	#2,204	15.6
1912	7	#2,188	16.3
1908	7	#1,180	45.4

Download Modesto’s births by year (CSV)

Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.

Is Modesto a boy’s or a girl’s name?

Modesto has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 115 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).

Girls and boys named Modesto: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.

How many people are named Modesto, and how old are they?

1,690 alive in 2026, estimated

That is 66% of the 2,559 Americans ever recorded as Modesto. The median Modesto alive today is 44 years old; half are between 28 and 60.

The 2020 Census counted 5,688 people named Modesto (35 women and girls, 5,653 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,756 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.2 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.

Alive today, by age

90-9914

80-8976

70-79134

60-69206

50-59262

40-49 (median)262

30-39265

20-29237

10-19137

0-999

Alive today, by generation

By generation
Generation	Born	Alive
Silent Generation	1928-1945	79
Baby Boomers	1946-1964	313
Generation X	1965-1980	410
Millennials	1981-1996	418
Generation Z	1997-2012	333
Generation Alpha	2013-2025	140

An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.

Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).

Where are babies named Modesto born?

The states with the most babies named Modesto are Texas, California and New York, with 97% of its births recorded by state since 1910.

States with the most births: girls and boys together; rank among boys’ names in the state in 2025
State	Since 1910	Rank, boys	vs. national
Texas	739	not ranked	4.1×
California	351	not ranked	1.5×
New York	121	not ranked	0.6×
New Mexico	34	not ranked	2.1×
Colorado	9	not ranked	0.3×

Where Modesto is more common than its national share predicts

Relative to its national share, Modesto is most over-represented in Texas: since 1910 it was given 4.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.

Texas4.06×

California1.49×

Bars start at 1× (as often as the national share predicts).

States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Modesto with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.

Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Modesto

Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.

Name	Recorded	1900-2025
Conrado	2,197
Porfirio	3,526
Florentino	3,105
Anselmo	2,748
Rito	1,472
Bernardino	1,649

Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.

More about Modesto and names like it

Compare Modesto and ConradoBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
The most given names of the 1920sModesto peaked in 1927.
Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Modesto since 1910.
Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Modesto: every such name, by how often it is given.
The top names of 1927The year the most babies were named Modesto.
The names of the MillennialsMost people named Modesto alive today were born 1981-1996.
Names starting with MMost given first.

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