Monzerrat
Feminine · “the serrated mountain”
Monzerrat is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 564 girls against 5 boys since 1880.
Monzerrat is a mountain in Catalonia. Montserrat rises behind Barcelona in a formation of rounded stone pillars that look, from a distance, like the teeth of a saw — which is exactly what the name says. The monastery on it holds a dark wooden statue of the Virgin, and she is the patron of Catalonia.
How old is the name Monzerrat?
Monzerrat first appears in US birth records in 1991 — 34 years ago. The typical Monzerrat alive today was born around 2007, making them about 18 years old. About 600 people named Monzerrat are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Monzerrat most popular?
Monzerrat peaked in 2004, reaching #3566 nationally. Today it ranks #14942, 11,376 places below that high. See the whole 2004 chart.
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Where it comes from
From mont serrat to Monzerrat
The story of Monzerrat
Catalan and Spanish naming take names from Marian shrines rather than from saints in the usual sense — Montserrat, Pilar, Lourdes, Fatima, Carmen — and Montserrat is the most Catalan of them, carried by women across Catalonia and, through emigration and Spanish-language use, across Mexico and Latin America. The z in this spelling records how a Spanish speaker hears the Catalan ts sound and writes it down; Spanish has no ts in that position and reaches for z instead. It is a transcription rather than a mistake, and it is common in Mexican records.
Meaning
the serrated mountain
Catalan mont serrat means sawn or serrated mountain, from the Latin serra, a saw — the same root as the English serrated. It is a description of the rock formation and nothing more mysterious than that. The name became a personal one through the Virgin of Montserrat, whose shrine has drawn pilgrims for a thousand years; the statue is known affectionately as La Moreneta, the little dark one, for the color the wood has taken.
How the name formed
- mont serrat
- Montserrat
- Monzerrat
Related forms: Montserrat · Montserrat · Montse
Pronouncing Monzerrat
mon-seh-RAHT
mon-seh-RAHT, three syllables, stress at the end. Catalan gives the middle a ts sound that Spanish and English both simplify. English readers often try MONT-ser-rat with the weight at the front, which is not how the name is said in either of its home languages.
Nicknames for Monzerrat
Moderate
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
- 1991
- Most girls named
- 200843 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3566reached in 2004
- Change vs 2024
- −37.5%5 in 2025, from 8
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.
Monzerrat in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Montserrat in Catalan — same name
- Montserrat in Spanish — same name
- Montse in Spanish — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas.
Monzerrats among us
people named Monzerrat are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 321,453 born in 2025 was named Monzerrat
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 Sharissa test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Monzerrat's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Sharissa climbed just as high around 1989, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Sharissa's path sketches the road Monzerrat is walking now.
Monzerrat 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
Monzerrat beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Monzerrat in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- It names a real mountain, a real monastery and a real devotion, all of them documented for a thousand years.
- Montse is a ready short form used by essentially every Montserrat there is.
- The meaning is concrete and visual rather than abstract, which is rare in a name this long.
- Montserrat is the standard spelling everywhere the name is native, and this one will be corrected toward it.
- In English the last syllable lands on an unfortunate word, and school-age children find that quickly.
- Three syllables with the stress at the end is unfamiliar to English speakers, so the name gets said wrong before it is said right.
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Frequently asked
- How many Monzerrats are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Monzerrat are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Monzerrat in 2025?
- Monzerrat ranks #14942 among US girl names in 2025, with 5 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Monzerrat?
- About 1 in every 321,453 US girls born in 2025 was named Monzerrat — 5 in all.
- Will my child share the name Monzerrat with classmates?
- Monzerrat will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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