Monserrat

Where Monserrat comes from

Monserrat hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1967
    Monserrat Brugué born
    Peruvian actor
  2. 1980
    First appearance
    #10,392 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1985
    Monserrat Torrent born
    Chilean presenter
  4. 2014
    Peak, #592
    498 babies named Monserrat — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2018
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,106.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Monserrat Brugué · Peruvian actor, born 1967
  • Monserrat Torrent · Chilean presenter, born 1985
  • Monserrat Prats · Chilean actor, born 1986
  • Monserrat Álvarez · Chilean journalist, born 1968

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.