McAnulty Last Name: Meaning and Heraldic Roots

McAnulty belongs to the McNulty family of names, which has Irish roots. Read literally, McAnulty points to “Son of the Ulsterman”. Records show McAnulty as one of the forms McNulty took over time. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. You may also find the name written MacNulty and Nulty.

According to the 2010 US Census, the McAnulty surname had 1,261 bearers.

Arms linked to McNulty and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to. Get the complete McAnulty report, with a museum-style coat of arms.