Given name

Modestas

Modestas is a masculine given name from Latin. It is used in Lithuanian.

Original LatinModestus

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Modestas comes from Latin.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Latin Modestus.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Modestas’s family of names

In Lithuanian usage, Modestas was borrowed from the Latin form Modestus.

Walk Modestas’s family in the name graph

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The ring: across languages.

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Across languages 4

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Sibling ideas

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