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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