Musters
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: from Moutiers-Hubert (Calvados); first attested Robert de Mosteriis 1086 (A Dictionary of English Surnames)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/mystərs/(machine-generated) Dutch · model-generated
Musters is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the Netherlands.
- NLNetherlands
- USUnited States
- CACanada
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
How to pronounce Musters
- Dutch:/mystərs/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from Moutiers-Hubert (Calvados); first attested Robert de Mosteriis 1086
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Musters is read
(measured from records)Musters is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English42%
from Moutiers-Hubert (Calvados); first attested Robert de Mosteriis 1086
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
from Sussex
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
- Dutch34%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Musters in Dutch.
- German9.1%
genitive singular of Muster
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)- George Chaworth Mustersb. 1841ITBritish naval officer and traveller (1841-1879)
- Olga Lowinab. 1924NLnot in their usual nameDutch singer (1924–1994)
- Marcel Mustersb. 1959NLDutch actor (born 1959)
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)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Musters mean, and where does it come from?
- from Moutiers-Hubert (Calvados); first attested Robert de Mosteriis 1086 Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Musters?
- In Dutch /mystərs/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Musters have the most bearers?
- Musters is most frequently recorded in the Netherlands.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
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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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Musters”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.