Modin
surname · Latin script
Meaning: 1 . Jewish (from Belarus); patronymic from the Yiddish male personal name Modye, a pet form of Mordecai
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/mudiːn/(machine-generated) Swedish · model-generated
Modin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 5.5K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 59K
- NONorway1 in 74K
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 Modin itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 121 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,000 named Модин, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Модин in RU Russia and Модін in UA Ukraine.
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.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)1 . Jewish (from Belarus); patronymic from the Yiddish male personal name Modye, a pet form of Mordecai. 2. Swedish: variant of Moden (see Moden).
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Modin 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.
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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)Modin 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 Indonesian, muezzin
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)- Victor Modinb. 1843SESwedish priest (1843-1911)
- Uno Modinb. 1905SESwedish writer
- Boris Modinb. 1920RUSoviet military personnel
- Anita Modinb. 1939SESwedish politician
- Örjan Modinb. 1943SESwedish bandy player and association football player
- Jan Modinb. 1951SESwedish actor
- Mauro Modinb. 1963ITItalian painter
- Fredrik Modinb. 1974SESwedish ice hockey player
- Jesper Modinb. 1988SESwedish cross-country skier
- Zebastian Modinb. 1994SESwedish Swedish cross-country and biathlete
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)24 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Modin come from?
- 1 . Jewish (from Belarus); patronymic from the Yiddish male personal name Modye, a pet form of Mordecai. 2. Swedish: variant of Moden (see Moden). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Modin?
- In Swedish /mudiːn/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Modin mean?
- Recorded meaning: 1 . Jewish (from Belarus); patronymic from the Yiddish male personal name Modye, a pet form of Mordecai.
- In which country does Modin have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.0 thousand people named Модин in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Modin most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Modin is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 5.5 thousand people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Modin?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 1,855 people named Modin, about 1 in 5.5 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/modinThe 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, “Modin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.