# Munter (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/munter/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname from German.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | German |
| Type | occupational, named after the work an ancestor did |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 651 |
| US rank (2010) | 34,707 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 474,263 people |
| Change since 2000 | -7.3% (702 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

* As a north German (Münter) and Dutch (De Munter) surname, occupational surname for a minter; see Minter. * Also as a German surname (and Swedish and Danish, both borrowed from the German), from the adjective Munter (“lively, merry”). Also found in Finland.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Munter in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 92% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 4.0% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.1% |
| Two or more races | 2.3% |

## Similar surnames

Montero, Minter, Monteiro, Mondragon, Monterroso, Monterrosa, Manders, Minder, Montrose, Mandrell, Montroy, Mander.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.