Mullaney
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Mullaney is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States. Recorded meaning: Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Maoilsheanaigh (“descendant of the devotee of (Saint) Seanach”).
- GBUnited Kingdom
- USUnited States
- AUAustralia
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.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Maoilsheanaigh (“descendant of the devotee of (Saint) Seanach”).
Sources 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
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)
- Joe Mullaneyb. 1924USAmerican basketball player and coach (1924–2000)
- Jack Mullaneyb. 1929USAmerican actor (1929-1982)
- Kevin Mullaneyb. 1948USAmerican darts player
- Mark Mullaneyb. 1953USAmerican football player
- Dean Mullaneyb. 1954publisher
- Martina Mullaneyb. 1972GBvisual artist and photographer (1972- )
- Craig Mullaneyb. 1978USAmerican Army officer
- Richard Mullaneyb. 1993USAmerican football player (born 1993)
- Sydney Mullaneyb. 2001USAmerican curler
- Ann E. MullaneyUSphilologist and scholar of Italian
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 13 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4.2K | #7,803 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 4.2K | #7,354 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.9K | #8,090 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 9 | #126,713 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 4 | #118,617 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4 | #231,155 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #162,842 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Mullaney mean, and where does it come from?
- Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Maoilsheanaigh (“descendant of the devotee of (Saint) Seanach”). Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary.
- In which country does Mullaney have the most bearers?
- Mullaney is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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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.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Mullaney”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.