Every name given to a US baby since 1880, ranked year by year — straight from Social Security Administration birth records. 105,966 names · 375,362,447 births · public domain.

Modest

#29,338 most common girls' name of all time · #47,431 across all names · 0% male / 100% female · used 1911–1927

Rank among girls
#29,338
Rank overall
#47,431 of 105,966
First appeared
1911
Years on the list
10 of 146
All-time
65
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1921 #3,084
Best rank
#2,180 1911
Girls Boys peak 11/yr
1920

Modest first appears in 1911. That's the first year it was given to at least 5 US babies, which is the threshold below which the SSA withholds a name.

Year by year

YearGirlsBoysTotalRank
1927 6 — 6 #4,476
1924 5 — 5 #5,320
1921 11 — 11 #3,084
1920 5 — 5 #5,221
1918 6 — 6 #4,503
1917 6 — 6 #4,289
1916 6 — 6 #4,124
1915 8 — 8 #3,323
1914 5 — 5 #3,897
1911 7 — 7 #2,180