Marsters
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: Cook Islands Electoral Rolls (2022 General Election + 2024 Pa Enua), 2022
Marsters is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 458 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. In Cook Islands it is the 13th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Norfolk. see Masters ; compare William Marster, 1559 in PROB 11 (Chilton, Wilts).
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 23Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 82K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 230Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 158 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 23K (inferred from the name graph)
458 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
New Zealand, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Main GB Location (1881): Norfolk. see Masters ; compare William Marster, 1559 in PROB 11 (Chilton, Wilts). Further information: Marsters is the predominant surname on Palmerston Island, Cook Islands, South Pacific, deriving from a settler and owner reputedly born in Leics.
Cited for this meaning 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Where the surname Marsters is found
(measured from records)Marsters counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 458 | 1 in 726K | 489 | Marsters | 158 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 82K | — | Marsters | 56 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 225K | — | Marsters | 66 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Marsters | 52 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 383K | — | Marsters | 27 |
| CK Cook Islands | #13 | — | — | 169 | Marsters | 3 |
458 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Cook Islands Electoral Rolls (2022 General Election + 2024 Pa Enua). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Tom Marstersb. 1945CKNew Zealand politician
- James Marstersb. 1962USAmerican actor (born 1962)
- Nathan Marstersb. 1980CACanadian ice hockey player (1980-2009)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Marsters mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Norfolk. see Masters ; compare William Marster, 1559 in PROB 11 (Chilton, Wilts). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Marsters?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 458 people named Marsters, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled marsters. After it come Australia, United Kingdom, New Zealand and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Marsters?
- In the United States, the national register counted 458 people named Marsters in 2010, about 1 in 726 thousand residents.
- How common is Marsters compared with other names?
- In Cook Islands, Marsters is the 13th most common surname of 473 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/marstersThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Marsters” — ranked 45078th in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.