Montserrat

given name · Latin script

Meaning, in Catalan: Montserrat (an island and overseas territory of the United Kingdom, in the Caribbean)

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/montserat/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Montserrat is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country, where it is the 98th most common given name.

rarermore common
  • ESSpain1 in 484(measured from records)
  • CLChile≈1 in 6.5K
  • CRCosta Rica1 in 3.9Kas Monserrat

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Montserrat itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Spain (measured from records)

103,244 people

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
257 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 484 (inferred from the name graph)

Spain

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

MontserratLatin(measured from records)
МонтсерратCyrillic(measured from records)
ΜοντσερρατGreek(measured from records)

Locally spelled Monserrate in EC Ecuador.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Catalan Marian name from Montserrat, ‘serrated mountain’

Sources 1

  • Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

How Montserrat is read(measured from records)

Montserrat is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Spanish91%

    Del latín mons serratus, 'monte en forma de sierra' o 'dentado como una sierra'.

    as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios

  • Catalan12%

    Montserrat (an island and overseas territory of the United Kingdom, in the Caribbean)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Montserrat 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.

Where Montserrat is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain#98103,2441 in 484106KMontserrat193
US United States—6,888as Monserrat1 in 48K6.7KMontserrat257
EC Ecuador—2,808as Monserrate1 in 6K8.5KMonserrate30
CL Chile#506≈2,800 est.≈1 in 6.5K336Montserrat79
CR Costa Rica#3921,298as Monserrat1 in 3.9K1.3KMontserrat37
GQ Equatorial Guinea—≈730 est.≈1 in 1.2K80—7
AD Andorra#78≈30 est.≈1 in 2.6K—Montserrat18

103,244 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); INEC — civil registry names; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; This article analyzes the historical evolution of personal naming systems in Equatorial Guinea, published by Ramón NGUBA. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Montserrat is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Germany, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Montsērrât

  • French given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, United States, Belgium

    Also written Mont-Serrat

  • Portuguese given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Brazil, Paraguay, Portugal

    Also written Mont-Serrat

  • Norwegian given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Denmark, United States

    Languages: Norwegian, Danish, Swedish

    Also written Montserrät

52 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Montserrat is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In French, Catalan Marian name from Montserrat, ‘serrated mountain’

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • In English, island. West Indies

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In English, mtn., Spain

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In French, Origine espagnole; lié à la Vierge de Montserrat, toponyme catalan.

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

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)

19201940196019802000Monserrat Julió, b. 1929Montserrat Carulla, b. 1930Montserrat Caballé, b. 1933Montserrat Figueras, b. 1942Montserrat Alcoverro i Marco, b. 1959Montserrat Oliver, b. 1966Montse Ribé, b. 1972Montserrat Martí, b. 1972Montserrat Pujol, b. 1979Montserrat Lombard, b. 1982

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)

InformalHola Montserrat,Hi Montserrat, (English)

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 48 sources across 23 countries.

Official registers attesting Montserrat
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—106K#45
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—103K#86
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20204.4K#4,305
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2014534—
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—480#855
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2015440—
CL ChileSRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021)2016365—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2016352—
CL ChileSRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021)2015352—
CL ChileSRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021)2010317—
CL ChileSRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021)2014290—
CL ChileSRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021)2021164—

Reference works 5

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

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

Where does the name Montserrat come from?
Catalan Marian name from Montserrat, ‘serrated mountain’ Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
How do you pronounce Montserrat?
A machine transcription gives /montserat/ (IPA) for Spanish.
Is Montserrat a male or female name?
Montserrat 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.
What does the name Montserrat mean?
In Catalan, Montserrat (an island and overseas territory of the United Kingdom, in the Caribbean)
What are other forms of the name Montserrat?
In the etymology graph, Monserrat is a form of the same name in other languages.
How common is the name Montserrat?
In Spain, the national register counted 103,244 people named Montserrat, about 1 in 484 residents.
How common is Montserrat compared with other names?
In Spain, Montserrat is the 98th most common given name of 135,644 given names recorded there.
In which country does Montserrat have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 103 thousand people named Montserrat, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled montserrat.
Where is Montserrat most common?
Montserrat is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 484 people carrying it.

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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, “Montserrat” — the 98th most common given name in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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