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
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- Peak · girls
- 2024 · 101 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 858since 2011
Rooney over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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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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| 1943 | — | #3,538 | 5 | |
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First appearance
2011
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.
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Momentum · girls
Holding steady
- 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)
Rise & fade · girls
13 yrs to peak
- Debuted 2011
- Peaked 2024 at #1,955 (101 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 16,041
- 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%)
Era · girls
The 2020s
- 59.7% of all girls named Rooney (512) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2013
- 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.
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