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Montse

#16,514 in 2025Girls' name

Diminutive of Montserrat

Montse has been given to 12 babies in the U.S. since 2000. In 2025 it ranked #16,514 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2000, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Montse, 2025

1 in 663,000

Montse over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Montse: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Montserrat

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Montse means

Montse is a diminutive of Montserrat.

Origin, language, and formation

Montse is used in Catalan.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Montserrat.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Catalan, Montse is pronounced [ˈmun.sə].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 12 girls were recorded with the name Montse between 2000 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2000; its best national rank was #12,703 in 2000.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

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How common is Montse?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#16,514
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Montse sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Montse. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Montses were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Montse was born before 2000 — so the typical Montse is around 25 today.

Median birth year
2000
About 25 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
58.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
41.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
12
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 58.3% of all recorded uses (7).

Is Montse rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
71.4%
Peak was 2000 (7)
Years since peak
25
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#12,703
2000

Spellings of Montse

Montse is not the most common spelling — Monroe is, with 43.5% against Montse's 0.07%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Montse by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#16,514
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#12,703
2000
Peak year
2000
7 that year
First recorded
2000
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
12
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Montse

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Montse

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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