Fun Facts About the Name Monzerrat
- 569 babies named Monzerrat: U.S. records list 569 babies given the name Monzerrat from 1880 through 2025. Even 5 boys received the name Monzerrat - about 1 boy for every 113 girls.
What Does the Name Monzerrat Mean?
Monzerrat is a variant spelling of Montserrat, a Catalan name meaning "jagged mountain" or "sawed mountain." It is built from Catalan mont ("mountain"), from Latin mons, and serrat ("jagged" or "saw-toothed"), from serra ("saw"), also Latin. The literal image is a mountain whose rocky ridge looks like the teeth of a saw.
The name is a religious name before it is anything else: it refers to the mountain of Montserrat in Catalonia, Spain, and to the Virgin of Montserrat venerated there. As a girl's name it is a Marian dedication, not a description of the child. The spelling with z does not change the meaning; it is one of several phonetic spellings, alongside Monserrat, used in Spanish-speaking regions.
Monzerrat Name History & Origins
The name comes from the mountain of Montserrat, a serrated rock massif in Catalonia northwest of Barcelona. A monastery, Santa Maria de Montserrat, was established there in the eleventh century, and it became one of the most important pilgrimage sites in Spain.
The monastery's focal point is a Romanesque wooden statue of the Virgin and Child, dark in color and known as La Moreneta ("the little dark-skinned one"). Devotion to this image spread the name Montserrat through Catalonia first, then through the rest of Spain and into Latin America, where it is given to girls as a dedication to the Virgin of Montserrat. Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Jesuits, visited the shrine in 1522, an early marker of the site's wide reputation.
The form Monzerrat belongs to that Spanish American tradition of spelling. In Latin American Spanish, z and s stand for the same sound, so the z spelling is a respelling rather than a different name, and in Catalan speech the t in the cluster is not pronounced. The name is also familiar internationally through the Catalan soprano Montserrat Caballé, whose surname-stage name kept the standard Catalan spelling.
How Popular is the Name Monzerrat?
Monzerrat has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2008. Its best rank was #3,603 in 2004.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #16,519 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2024 | #11,784 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 2021 | #11,844 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 2020 | #13,046 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2019 | #8,461 | 13 | 0.0008% |
| 2018 | #12,146 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 2017 | #8,156 | 14 | 0.0008% |
| 2016 | #5,926 | 22 | 0.0012% |
| 2015 | #7,179 | 17 | 0.0010% |
| 2014 | #5,579 | 24 | 0.0013% |
| 2013 | #8,906 | 13 | 0.0007% |
| 2012 | #8,977 | 13 | 0.0007% |
| 2011 | #6,080 | 22 | 0.0013% |
| 2010 | #9,079 | 13 | 0.0007% |
| 2009 | #5,491 | 26 | 0.0014% |
| 2008 | #3,763 | 43 | 0.0023% |
| 2007 | #4,536 | 33 | 0.0017% |
| 2006 | #7,056 | 18 | 0.0009% |
| 2005 | #3,786 | 39 | 0.0021% |
| 2004 | #3,603 | 41 | 0.0022% |
| 2003 | #4,283 | 31 | 0.0017% |
| 2002 | #4,469 | 28 | 0.0016% |
| 2001 | #6,001 | 19 | 0.0011% |
| 2000 | #5,627 | 20 | 0.0011% |
| 1999 | #7,115 | 14 | 0.0008% |
| 1998 | #8,393 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 1997 | #15,341 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1996 | #10,230 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 1995 | #7,374 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 1993 | #6,917 | 13 | 0.0007% |
| 1992 | #12,817 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1991 | #8,396 | 10 | 0.0005% |
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | #10,763 | 5 | 0.0003% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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