Modesto Family History
- Modesto Name Meaning
- Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian: either a nickname from modesto ‘modest’, ‘unassuming’ or from the personal name Modesto, from Late Latin Modestus (meaning ‘moderate’, ‘gentle’, ‘temperate’). The name was borne by several early saints, including a child martyred at Alexandria, Egypt, and an 8th-century evangelist of Carinthia.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 29,487 Historical Documents with Modesto on Ancestry
- 23,579 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 3,241 Census and Voter Lists
- 658 Military Records
- 1,259 Immigration Records
- 750 Member Trees
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Number of Modesto families
 6 - 9  3 - 5 |
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from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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