Is Mulhearn an Italian surname?

Question

As in "Joseph Mulhearn".

Answer 1

I was going to say that was the least Italian name I have heard.

However... do not write Joseph off as being Irish, and not Italian. For example... Joe has 4 grandparents (8 gr grandparents).  Not impossible at all that 7 of those 8, could be Italian, and the paternal gr grandfather was who carried the name and married an Italian wife.

Names and heritage are not always the same thing.  

Answer 2

It's Irish.

Answer 3

Bejabbers ! Not on your Nellie Duff .

Answer 4

unlikely. Sounds Irish.

Answer 5

Mulhearn

Irish (midland and Ulster): Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Maoilchiaráin ‘descendant of Maoilchiaráin’, a personal name meaning ‘devotee of (Saint) Ciarán’ (a personal name from a diminutive of ciar ‘black’).