Monserrate
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Castilianized form of the Catalan habitational name Montserrat, after the famous monastery of Mare de Deu de Montserrat, in Barcelona
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/monsɛɾatɛ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Monserrate is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Cuba than in any other country, where it is the 39th most common given name.
- ECEcuador1 in 6K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 248K
- PRPuerto Rico≈1 in 1.6K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Cuba (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 169 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Puerto Rico, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Castilianized form of the Catalan habitational name Montserrat, after the famous monastery of Mare de Deu de Montserrat, in Barcelona. Christopher Columbus christened the Caribbean Island of Montserrat with reference to this name of the Virgin.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Monserrate counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CU Cuba | #39 | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Monserrate | 4 |
| EC Ecuador | #148 | 2,808 | 1 in 6K | 8.5K | Monserrate | 35 |
| PR Puerto Rico | #41 | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Monserrate | 26 |
| US United States | — | 1,340 | 1 in 248K | 1K | Monserrate | 169 |
| BR Brazil | — | ≈730 est. | ≈1 in 290K | 33 | — | — |
| DO Dominican Republic | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Monserrate | 10 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 85K | — | Monserrate | 1 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INEC — civil registry names; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Monserrate is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Portuguese, habitational name from any of various places in Portugal named Monserrate.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Portuguese, Montserrat (an island and overseas territory of the United Kingdom, in the Caribbean)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- José Felicianob. 1945USnot in their usual namePuerto Rican musician
- Benicio del Torob. 1967USnot in their usual namePuerto Rican actor (born 1967)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 24 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | — | 3K | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 2.8K | #501 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1K | #10,085 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 296 | #10,085 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2004 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1974 | 5 | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Monserrate mean, and where does it come from?
- Castilianized form of the Catalan habitational name Montserrat, after the famous monastery of Mare de Deu de Montserrat, in Barcelona. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Monserrate?
- A machine transcription gives /monsɛɾatɛ/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Monserrate a male or female name?
- Monserrate is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Monserrate have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.1 thousand people named Monserrate in Cuba, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled monserrate.
- How common is the name Monserrate?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 2,808 people named Monserrate in 2024, about 1 in 6.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Monserrate compared with other names?
- In Cuba, Monserrate is the 39th most common given name of 6,267 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/monserrateThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Monserrate” — the 39th most common given name in Cuba. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.