Rooney
#2,214 for girls in 2025, 83 births · #3,848 for boys in 2025, 28 births
Given to girls 56.1% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2024 · 101 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 858since 2011
Rooney over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,214 | 83 | #3,848 | 28 |
| 2024 | #1,955 | 101 | #3,045 | 40 |
| 2023 | #2,076 | 93 | #4,456 | 23 |
| 2022 | #2,103 | 91 | #4,303 | 24 |
| 2021 | #2,558 | 68 | #4,247 | 24 |
| 2020 | #2,317 | 76 | #4,275 | 23 |
| 2019 | #2,856 | 58 | #4,639 | 21 |
| 2018 | #2,438 | 73 | #4,476 | 22 |
| 2017 | #3,479 | 44 | #4,746 | 20 |
| 2016 | #3,923 | 38 | #7,157 | 11 |
| 2015 | #4,069 | 36 | #3,982 | 26 |
| 2014 | #3,925 | 38 | #3,693 | 28 |
| 2013 | #4,422 | 32 | #3,339 | 32 |
| 2012 | #6,110 | 21 | #3,625 | 29 |
| 2011 | #14,824 | 6 | #2,699 | 44 |
| 2010 | — | #3,181 | 35 | |
| 2009 | — | #4,278 | 23 | |
| 2008 | — | #4,395 | 22 | |
| 2007 | — | #4,808 | 19 | |
| 2006 | — | #5,303 | 16 | |
| 2005 | — | #9,115 | 7 | |
| 2004 | — | #9,948 | 6 | |
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| 1991 | — | #5,942 | 8 | |
| 1990 | — | #8,117 | 5 | |
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| 1987 | — | #6,089 | 6 | |
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| 1983 | — | #6,238 | 5 | |
| 1982 | — | #5,003 | 7 | |
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| 1974 | — | #4,634 | 6 | |
| 1973 | — | #4,505 | 6 | |
| 1972 | — | #3,622 | 8 | |
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| 1970 | — | #3,521 | 8 | |
| 1969 | — | #3,935 | 6 | |
| 1968 | — | #4,136 | 5 | |
| 1967 | — | #2,352 | 12 | |
| 1966 | — | #3,249 | 7 | |
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| 1963 | — | #3,318 | 7 | |
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| 1958 | — | #3,559 | 6 | |
| 1957 | — | #3,257 | 7 | |
| 1956 | — | #3,942 | 5 | |
| 1955 | — | #3,886 | 5 | |
| 1954 | — | #3,827 | 5 | |
| 1953 | — | #2,709 | 9 | |
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| 1951 | — | #3,714 | 5 | |
| 1950 | — | #3,681 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Rooney! It came in at #14,824, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 2011, when fewer than 7 girls a year got the name.
Where Rooney is popular in 2018
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Utah#478 · 1 in 2,086
- Pennsylvania#1,407 · 1 in 10,061
- California#1,962 · 1 in 17,225
Best ever in a state: #478 in Utah, 2018.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Utah | #478 | 8 | 1 in 2,086 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,407 | 5 | 1 in 10,061 |
| California | #1,962 | 11 | 1 in 17,225 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Rooney
- 259 spots since 2024 (#1,955 → #2,214)
- 103 spots since 2020 (#2,317 → #2,214)
- 1,855 spots since 2015 (#4,069 → #2,214)
- Debuted 2011
- Peaked 2024 at #1,955 (101 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 16,041 girls born in 2024 were named Rooney (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 19,365 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 59.7% of all girls named Rooney (512) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 2012, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 346 | #2,438 (2018) | #5,116 |
| 2020s | 512 | #1,955 (2024) | #2,204 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Rooney in 2018
Top girls' names in 2018
Top boys' names in 2018
More about 2018
girls
1,701,074 girls got a published name in 2018; 1 in 23,302 of them was named Rooney, which outranked 86.6% of the 18,152 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,419Story74
- #2,419Yatziri74
- #2,419Zena74
- #2,438Rooney73
- #2,438Amen73
- #2,438Annalisa73
- #2,438Arina73
- #2,457Avarie72
- #2,457Avayah72
- #2,457Berenice72
Tied with 18 names at #2,438; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,816,158 boys got a published name in 2018; 1 in 82,553 of them was named Rooney, which outranked 68.3% of the 14,118 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #4,354Yuvin23
- #4,354Zadok23
- #4,354Zeb23
- #4,476Rooney22
- #4,476Aakash22
- #4,476Aaryn22
- #4,476Abdimalik22
- #4,610Ahan21
- #4,610Alexandru21
- #4,610Armond21
Tied with 133 names at #4,476; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.