Monserrat is a Spanish spelling of Montserrat, the jagged mountain near Barcelona whose name comes from the Latin mons serratus, "serrated mountain" or "saw-toothed mountain". The Benedictine monastery there houses the Black Madonna, Our Lady of Montserrat, patron saint of Catalonia, and girls are named in her honor. In the United States Monserrat ranked number 862 in 2000, peaked at number 592 in 2014 and left the top 1000 in 2017; it stands at number 1450 in 2025.