German (mainly Münster) and Dutch (also Van Munster): habitational name from any of the places called Münster (in Germany) or Munster derived from Latin monasterium 'monastery' or a topographic name for someone living near a monastery. Irish: variant (translation into English) of Moynihan .

Münster (German: [ˈmʏnstɐ]; Westphalian: Mönster) is an independent city (Kreisfreie Stadt) in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is in the northern part of the state and is considered to be the cultural centre of the Westphalia region.

The centre of Westphalian culture, Münster has several cultural and scientific museums, including the Westphalian State Museum for Art and Cultural History and the Westphalian State Museum of Natural History, as well as technical and research institutes (including the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine) and ...

[ˈmʏnstɐ] neuter noun Word forms: Münsters genitive , Münster plural. minster, cathedral.