Montserrat

Montserrat: name meaning, origin & popularity

Meaning
“jagged mountain”
Origin
Catalan
Say it
mon-suh-RAT · 3 syllables
Used for
Girls

From the Catalan place-name Montserrat, literally 'serrated mountain.' It became a given name through devotion to Our Lady of Montserrat.

How popular is Montserrat?

202445.0 per million US babies
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Drag the line or the slider to read any year. Values are per million US births recorded by Social Security. Records before about 1937 undercount births, so early peaks can look taller than they were.

Babies named Montserrat in 2024149

2024 rank#1,466 girls

Peak year2014

Total US babies since 18805,508

Montserrat has been fairly stable over the last fifteen years.

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Variants, related forms and names with the same roots.

Montserrat questions

What does the name Montserrat mean?

Montserrat means "jagged mountain". It comes from Catalan. From the Catalan place-name Montserrat, literally 'serrated mountain.' It became a given name through devotion to Our Lady of Montserrat.

Is Montserrat a boy or girl name?

Montserrat is mainly a girl's name in US records (100% of uses since 1880).

How popular is Montserrat?

149 US babies were named Montserrat in 2024. Its peak year was 2014.

How do you pronounce Montserrat?

Montserrat is usually pronounced mon-suh-RAT.

Birth counts: US Social Security Administration national data, 1880–2024 (names given to 5+ babies of a sex in a year). How we write meanings.