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Updated June 9, 2019

Girl name origins & meanings

  • Latin : Modest one

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : from the personal name Modeste, a vernacular form of Latin Modestus, from the adjective modestus ‘reserved’, ‘gentle’, ‘virtuous’. Compare Italian Modesto.

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