Modris
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Vīrieša vārds
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Modris is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- LVLatvia1 in 978(measured from records)
- ISIceland1 in 88K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 235K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 49 (measured from records)
- 1 in 978 (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,600 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Latvia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Vīrieša vārds
Sources 1
- Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Modris 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 528K | — | Modris | 1 |
| LV Latvia | #224 | 1,924 | 1 in 978 | 1.9K | Modris | 49 |
| US United States | — | ≈40 est. | ≈1 in 8.2M | — | Modris | 47 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 2.6M | — | Modris | 19 |
| NO Norway | — | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 240K | 56 | Modris | 6 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 235K | listed | Modris | 3 |
| IS Iceland | — | 4 | 1 in 88K | 4 | — | — |
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: PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); the ee-siseministeerium-registry register; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Modris Ģelzisb. 1929LVLatvian architect (1929-2009)
- Modris Eksteinsb. 1943CACanadian historian
- Modris Tenisonsb. 1945LVLatvian mime artist (1945–2020)
- Modris Lujānsb. 1964LVLatvian politician
- Modris Liepiņšb. 1966LVLatvian athletics competitor (born 1966)
- Modris Sapunsb. 1979LVLatvian painter
- Modris Bērziņšsound director
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 13 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 1.9K | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 1.9K | #274 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 56 | #11,088 |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 4 | — |
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 Modris mean?
- Recorded meaning: Vīrieša vārds
- Is Modris a male or female name?
- Modris is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Modris have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.6 thousand people named Modris in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled modris.
- Where is Modris most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Modris is densest in Latvia — about 1 in 978 people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Modris?
- In Latvia, the national register counted 1,924 people named Modris, about 1 in 978 residents.
- How common is Modris compared with other names?
- In Latvia, Modris is the 224th most common given name of 11,601 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/modrisThe 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, “Modris” — the 224th most common given name in Latvia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.