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munster Name Meaning and History

  1. German and Dutch (Munster, Münster): habitational name from places called Munster or Münster, derived from Latin monasterium ‘monastery’, or a topographic name for someone who lived near a monastery.
  2. Irish: see Moynihan.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The munster name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the munster family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of munster Families in the US in 1920
Number of munster families
 14-25
 5-13		 1-4
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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