Modu
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Son of
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/moʊdu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Modu is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Nigeria.
- NGNigeria
- GMGambia
- CMCameroon
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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 54 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Son of.
Sources 1
- The African book of names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Modu counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | #813 | — | listed | Modu | 44 |
| US United States | — | — | — | Modu | 54 |
| IN India | — | — | 360 | Modu | 14 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | — | Modu | 39 |
| CM Cameroon | — | — | — | Modu | 2 |
| GM Gambia | #153 | — | — | Modu | 13 |
| IT Italy | — | — | — | Modu | 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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)
Modu is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In xgn-pro, tree
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In Slovenian, dative/locative singular of modo
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, way, manner
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In xgn-pro, дерево
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
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.
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 10 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 360 | #11,758 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 313 | #10,224 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
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 Modu mean, and where does it come from?
- Son of. Recorded by The African book of names.
- How do you pronounce Modu?
- A machine transcription gives /moʊdu/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Modu a male or female name?
- Modu 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 Modu have the most bearers?
- Modu is most frequently recorded in Nigeria, where it is most often spelled modu.
- How common is Modu compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Modu is the 813th most common given name of 138,191 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Modu?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/moduThe 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, “Modu” — the 813th most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.