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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: 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!. Www@QuestionHome@Com 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’)!. Www@QuestionHome@Com unlikely!. Sounds Irish!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Bejabbers ! Not on your Nellie Duff !.Www@QuestionHome@Com It's Irish!.Www@QuestionHome@Com |