Montserrat
Montserrat was given to 160 girls in 2025, #1,377 among girls’ names; 5,669 Americans have been recorded with it since 1963 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,620 Americans named Montserrat and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 8 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Montserrat by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Montserrat mean?
Wiktionary, Spanish section
Montserrat is “a female given name transferred from the place name or from Catalan, shortened from María (de) Montserrat, a Roman Catholic epithet of the Virgin Mary as the patron of Catalonia” Its etymology gives the senses “hill” (mont) and “jagged” (serrat).
Borrowed from Catalan Montserrat, from mont (“hill”) + serrat (“jagged”).
/montseˈrat/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Spanish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Montserrat?
#1,377 among girls’ names, 2025
Montserrat fell from #654 in 2015 to #1,377 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.25 to 0.10 per 1,000.
534 babies in 2014, the peak
Montserrat peaked in 2014, when 534 girls were given it, #574 among girls’ names. The 160 births of 2025 are 30% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 160 | #1,377 | 0.10 |
| 2024 | 150 | #1,461 | 0.09 |
| 2023 | 169 | #1,341 | 0.11 |
| 2022 | 173 | #1,351 | 0.11 |
| 2021 | 151 | #1,428 | 0.09 |
| 2020 | 197 | #1,180 | 0.12 |
| 2019 | 194 | #1,207 | 0.12 |
| 2018 | 243 | #1,056 | 0.14 |
| 2017 | 246 | #1,050 | 0.14 |
| 2016 | 352 | #810 | 0.20 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 440 | #654 | 0.25 |
| 2014 | 534 | #574 | 0.30 |
| 2013 | 209 | #1,151 | 0.12 |
| 2012 | 230 | #1,083 | 0.13 |
| 2011 | 175 | #1,331 | 0.10 |
| 2010 | 121 | #1,731 | 0.07 |
| 2009 | 134 | #1,672 | 0.07 |
| 2008 | 199 | #1,261 | 0.11 |
| 2007 | 152 | #1,524 | 0.08 |
| 2006 | 153 | #1,458 | 0.08 |
| 2005 | 235 | #1,031 | 0.13 |
| 2004 | 162 | #1,320 | 0.09 |
| 2003 | 128 | #1,524 | 0.07 |
| 2002 | 161 | #1,241 | 0.09 |
| 2001 | 153 | #1,283 | 0.08 |
| 2000 | 123 | #1,499 | 0.07 |
| 1999 | 63 | #2,360 | 0.04 |
| 1998 | 30 | #3,891 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 40 | #3,015 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 25 | #4,274 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 37 | #3,133 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,543 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 15 | #6,157 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 22 | #4,629 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,248 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 12 | #7,159 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,344 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,538 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,777 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,532 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,388 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,519 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,142 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,302 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Montserrat a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Montserrat has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 44 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Montserrat: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Montserrat, and how old are they?
5,620 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 5,669 Americans ever recorded as Montserrat. The median Montserrat alive today is 12 years old; half are between 8 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 4,408 people named Montserrat (4,368 women and girls, 40 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,683 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 178 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,240 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,200 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Montserrat born?
The states with the most babies named Montserrat are Texas, California and Florida, with 71% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 37 | #816 | 2.5× |
| California | 29 | #961 | 2.3× |
| Florida | 14 | #1,097 | 0.6× |
| New Jersey | 10 | #758 | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 9 | #983 | 1.5× |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,238 | 0.5× |
| Arizona | 6 | #999 | 1.1× |
Where Montserrat is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Montserrat is most over-represented in Texas: since 1963 it was given 2.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Montserrat with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Montserrat
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Montserrat and names like it
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- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Montserrat since 1910.
- From place namesWiktionary’s origin for Montserrat: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Montserrat.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Montserrat alive today were born 2013-2025.
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