Montserrat ([munsəˈrat], [monseˈrat], or Maria Montserrat, after the Virgin of Montserrat, is a popular name for girls in Catalonia and several other parts of Catalan-speaking areas. Indeed, it was the second most common given name for women in Catalonia in 2014, according to the Catalan Statistics Institute.
The name is traditionally abbreviated to Serrat, Rat, Rateta, Tat or Tóna, and more recently, due to foreign influence, also to Monse.
April 27th is the Montserrat name day, traditionally celebrated in Catalan-speaking areas as a birthday would be in the Anglo-Saxon world.
Sometimes this name appears in the Spanish-speaking world as a given name as is, or sometimes translated as Montserrate or Monserrate (where the final "e" is pronounced /e̞/).