Given name & surname · also Latin
Modena
Modena is a surname from Latin, ultimately from Etruscan. It is used in Italian.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Modena comes from Latin, and ultimately from Etruscan.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1882. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Modena through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 683
- 0 boys · 683 girls
- Most popular year
- 1921
- 33 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 8 in 1958. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 33 in 1921. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 182 as a first name in 2020; 425 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Modena’s family of names
Modena may belong to the same name family as MODENNA. This is a tentative spelling connection.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
See also 2
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
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