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The MINSTER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 750 29625 0 3
United States (1880 census) 289 14680 0.001 6
Change since 1880 +461 -14945 +N/A -3
Other Countries
Australia 64 20756 0 4
United Kingdom 47 26299 0 1
Top States for MINSTER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 86 16206 0.001 7
New York 77 22971 0.000 4
California 68 31327 0.000 2
Michigan 59 20474 0.001 6
Illinois 55 23176 0.000 4
Top States for MINSTER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Montana 21 6594 0.002 23
Delaware 10 12548 0.001 13
Alaska 7 15431 0.001 11
Utah 23 8660 0.001 10
Wisconsin 47 18151 0.001 9

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called MINSTER live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called MINSTER represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called MINSTER in Pennsylvania than any other state, but you are more likely to find a MINSTER by picking someone at random in Montana than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of MINSTER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the MINSTER surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the MINSTER surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of MINSTER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 732 97.6
White (Hispanic) 7 0.93
Mixed Race 5 0.67
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 0

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the MINSTER surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of MINSTER in historical publications


(Saxon.) An abbey.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


MINSTER.* There are parishes specifically called Minster in the counties of Cornwall, Kent, Essex, and Oxford.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to MINSTER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MINSTER.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for MINSTER

The following words are slight variants of MINSTER that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.