Monserrat
Feminine · “serrated mountain”
Monserrat is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 8,070 girls against 26 boys since 1880.
Monserrat comes from a mountain — the saw-toothed ridge northwest of Barcelona whose Benedictine abbey has drawn pilgrims for something close to a thousand years. Devotion to the Virgin of Montserrat carried the name across the Atlantic, and it settled deeply into Spanish-speaking families. Said aloud it builds to the end, three syllables landing on that final RAHT.
How old is the name Monserrat?
Monserrat first appears in US birth records in 1980 — 45 years ago. The typical Monserrat alive today was born around 2009, making them about 16 years old. About 8,000 people named Monserrat are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Monserrat most popular?
Monserrat peaked in 2014, reaching #592 nationally. Today it ranks #1443, 851 places below that high. See the whole 2014 chart.
Where it comes from
From Mons Serratus to Monserrat
The story of Monserrat
The name belongs first to a place: Montserrat, the ridge of rock outside Barcelona, named for its saw-toothed profile. The Benedictine monastery there houses the Romanesque statue of the Virgin known as La Moreneta, patroness of Catalonia, and the name spread as a Marian name — given in her honor rather than after the geography. Columbus attached it to a Caribbean island in 1493, again after the abbey. Monserrat, without the first t, is the spelling that took hold across Latin America and came into US records with Spanish-speaking families, which is why it stands strongest in Texas, California and Illinois.
Meaning
serrated mountain
From Catalan mont ('mountain') and serrat ('sawed, serrated') — a description of the ridge's jagged silhouette.
How the name formed
- Mons Serratus
- Montserrat
- Monserrat
Related forms: Montserrat · Montserrat · Monserrath · Monserrate
Pronouncing Monserrat
mon-seh-RAHT
Stress falls on the last syllable in both Spanish and Catalan. English speakers unfamiliar with it often flatten it to MON-ser-at or add back the missing t; the trailing t itself is pronounced lightly, close to a tap.
Nicknames for Monserrat
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What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1980
- Most girls named
- 2014498 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #592reached in 2014
- Change vs 2024
- −15.8%149 in 2025, from 177
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Monserrat in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Montserrat in Catalan — same name
- Montserrat in Spanish — spelling variant
- Monserrath in Spanish — spelling variant
- Monserrate in Portuguese — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Illinois.
Monserrats among us
people named Monserrat are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 10,787 born in 2025 was named Monserrat
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Andria test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Monserrat's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Andria climbed just as high around 1980, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Andria's path sketches the road Monserrat is walking now.
Monserrat sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Monserrat is headed
Monserrat should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Monserrat beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Monserrat in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Two well-worn short forms already exist — Montse in Spain, Monse in Latin America — so the everyday name is settled before the child arrives.
- Works across Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese and English without translation, only a shift in stress.
- A documented history going back to a real mountain and a Catalan abbey, rather than a coined spelling.
- Familiar to Spanish-speaking ears everywhere while remaining uncommon in most American classrooms.
- Monserrat and Montserrat compete constantly. The fuller Catalan spelling is the older one, so forms, teachers and search engines will sometimes add the t back. Expect to spell it out, and to correct it kindly, for life.
- The final-syllable stress tends to get flattened by English speakers into MON-ser-at. Not a disaster, but worth deciding in advance whether that version is one you can live with.
- It shares its name with a Caribbean island, which occasionally prompts a geography question rather than a name question.
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Frequently asked
- How many Monserrats are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 8,000 people named Monserrat are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Monserrat in 2025?
- Monserrat ranks #1443 among US girl names in 2025, with 149 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Monserrat?
- About 1 in every 10,787 US girls born in 2025 was named Monserrat — 149 in all.
- Will my child share the name Monserrat with classmates?
- Monserrat will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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