Mode

org · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Mode is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): scattered: esp. Surrey;. variant of Moat .

rarermore common
  • CACanada
  • USUnited States
  • HKHong Kong

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
158 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Main GB Location (1881): scattered: esp. Surrey;. variant of Moat .

Sources 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
  • Nordic Names

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Mode counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Mode is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—1KMode158
CA Canada——Mode19
AU Australia——Mode11
GB United Kingdom——Mode38
HK Hong Kong——Mode1

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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Mode is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Modé

  • Portuguese surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Mexico, Spain, Peru

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Modé

  • French surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Canada, Tunisia, Congo - Kinshasa

    Also written Modé, Modè, Môde, Mödë, Módé

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Modé, Möde, Modè

50 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

  • Heinz Modeb. 1913DEGerman art historian, orientalist and indologist (1913-1992)
  • Dorian Modeb. 1966jazz musician

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 22 sources across 10 countries.

Official registers attesting Mode
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101K#24,237
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001K#23,300
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020987#26,092
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Mode mean, and where does it come from?
Main GB Location (1881): scattered: esp. Surrey;. variant of Moat . Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 2 other sources.
In which country does Mode have the most bearers?
Mode is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled mode.

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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, “Mode”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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