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Monserrat Monserrat — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ mon-seh-RAHT /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Our Lady of Montserrat (Catalan + Black Madonna)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Catalan)

A name that means "our lady of montserrat (catalan + black madonna)".

Monserrat is from the Catalan Montserrat — from Latin mons serratus — compound of Latin mons (mountain) + serratus (serrated/sawn). Monserrat is one of the Catalan feminine names — central to traditional Catalan Catholic + Hispanic heritage.

Our Lady of Montserrat (Catalan).

The name in its native script.

Montserrat
Transliteration
Monserrat
Pronunciation
/ mɒn.səˈrɑːt /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Monserrat stands.

Monserrat does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Monserrats before her.

Real people
Montserrat Caballé
Catalan operatic soprano + Barcelona 1987 duet with Freddie Mercury for Barcelona Olympics 1992.
1933 – 2018
In fiction
Our Lady of Montserrat / La Moreneta
Black Madonna of Montserrat + patron saint of Catalonia + Romanesque wooden statue ~12th c. + Santa Maria de Montserrat Abbey 1025 CE + Saint Ignatius of Loyola vigil 1522 + Escolania boys' choir.
Catalan Catholicism

Names connected to Monserrat.

The number behind Monserrat.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Monserrat reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.