Is There a Modeste Coat of Arms?

Sharing the Modeste name is not the same as sharing a crest; arms were granted to individual families.

How common is Modeste?

The 2010 census count for Modeste in the United States was 834, good for rank 28,587. Between 1891 and 2000, 1,584 babies born in France were registered as Modeste, with the most births in 1961–1970. There were 34 such births in the 1890s and 210 in the 1990s.

Standard surname dictionaries do not settle the origin of Modeste, so we research it family by family rather than guess. Modeste is a last name with a clear footprint in official records.

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