Modak
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/mod̪ɔkɔ/(machine-generated) Bangla · model-generated · read from মোদক
Modak is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country: 92,320 people, counted by Instate. Modak is also written মোদক in Bengali and Модак in Cyrillic.
- INIndia1 in 14K(measured from records)
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 18Kfew records
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 130Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Modak itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 150 (measured from records)
- 1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
92,320 people
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
India
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Modak in other scripts: Bengali and Cyrillic
(measured from records)Locally spelled Modok in HU Hungary.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
How to pronounce Modak
- Bangla:/mod̪ɔkɔ/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where the surname Modak is found
(measured from records)Modak counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #537 | 92,320 | 1 in 14K | 92K | Modak | 150 |
| BD Bangladesh | #382 | ≈9,800 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Modak | 36 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈760 est. | ≈1 in 372K | — | Modak | 17 |
| US United States | — | 280 | 1 in 1.2M | 410 | Modak | 120 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 128K | — | Modak | 5 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 66K | — | Modak | 30 |
| HU Hungary | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 90K | — | Modok | 18 |
92,320 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Modak is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, An Indian sweet consisting of a flour-based outer skin filled with coconut and jaggery.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Mike Modakb. 1922USMajor League Baseball pitcher (1922-1995)
- Taheen Modakb. 1996GBactor
- Nikhil ModakINIndian herpetologist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)18 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Modak?
- In Bangla /mod̪ɔkɔ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Modak?
- In India, the national register counted about 92 thousand people named Modak, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled modak. After it come Bangladesh, Indonesia, United States and Malaysia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Modak most common?
- Modak is densest in India, where the national register counts about 1 in 14 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Modak?
- In India, the national register counted 92,320 people named Modak, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.
- How common is Modak compared with other names?
- In India, Modak is the 537th most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Modak?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/modakThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Modak” — ranked 197th in India (Instate). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.