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Montserrat

#1,377 in 2025Girls' name

Hill + jagged

Montserrat has been given to 5,669 babies in the U.S. since 1963. In 2025 it ranked #1,377 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 534 recorded.

Babies named Montserrat, 2025

1 in 20,700

Montserrat over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Montserrat: meaning, origin, and history

Hill + jagged

place names and Catalan

What Montserrat means

Montserrat means “hill + jagged”, associated with mont and serrat.

Origin, language, and formation

Montserrat is used in Catalan and Spanish. Its origins include place names and Catalan.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include María.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Catalan, Montserrat is pronounced [mun.səˈrat].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,669 girls were recorded with the name Montserrat between 1963 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 534 in 2014; its best national rank was #574 in 2014.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,180 in 2020 to #1,377 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #654 in 2015 to #1,377 in 2025.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Montserrat?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 20,700
160 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 10,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,377
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
14,363 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Montserrat 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 14,363 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Montserrat. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Montserrats were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Montserrat was born before 2014 — so the typical Montserrat is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
48.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
92.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5,669
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Choose a decade

2010s — 48.4% of all recorded uses (2,744).

Is Montserrat 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
+84
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−197
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−723
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.36×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
30.0%
Peak was 2014 (534)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#574
2014

Spellings of Montserrat

Montserrat is not the most common spelling — Monserrat is, with 51.7% against Montserrat's 36.3%.

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.

Where Montserrat is used

Across 2016–2025, Montserrat was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 2,703 girls, against 1 in 5,626 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 50,000).

237 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 2,703
  2. 2California1 in 3,571
  3. 3Illinois1 in 4,762
  4. 4Arizona1 in 6,667
  5. 5New Jersey1 in 6,667
  6. 6Florida1 in 7,143
  7. 7New York1 in 9,091
  8. 8North Carolina1 in 12,500

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Montserrat around the world

Where Montserrat ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1938–1985
    #3,248
    in 1985
  • South Australia
    1972–1972
    #722
    in 1972

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Montserrat

People whose public names include Montserrat, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Montserrat in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Montserrat. Linked forms have their own page here.

Montse

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Montserrat by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,377
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 197
Best rank ever
#574
2014
Peak year
2014
534 that year
First recorded
1963
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,669
Count in 2025
160

Names similar to Montserrat

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

MonserratMonzerratMoncerratMontzerratMonserrathMonseratMontgomeryMontanaMonsserratMonroeMonzeratMonikaMonceratMonetMonalisaMonsseratMontannaMonaeMonserrattMontseratMoniqueMonzerrathMonetteMonisha

Names with a curve like Montserrat

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Montserrat, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

AmiaHonestyMaliahAveriElaynaHarleighLilliannaAliahJurneeLandryRayleeAlyvia

Sibling names for Montserrat

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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