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 2011
No state had 5 or more girls named Rooney in 2011, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
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 2011
Top girls' names in 2011
Top boys' names in 2011
More about 2011
girls
1,759,066 girls got a published name in 2011; 1 in 293,178 of them was named Rooney, which outranked 24.3% of the 19,590 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #13,347Zykeriah7
- #13,347Zyriana7
- #13,347Zyrianna7
- #14,824Rooney6
- #14,824Aalani6
- #14,824Aaleiyah6
- #14,824Aaliyan6
- #16,764Aailiyah5
- #16,764Aalanah5
- #16,764Aalayna5
Tied with 1,939 names at #14,824; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,899,252 boys got a published name in 2011; 1 in 43,165 of them was named Rooney, which outranked 81.2% of the 14,360 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,663Stockton45
- #2,663Tymir45
- #2,663Williams45
- #2,699Rooney44
- #2,699Aldair44
- #2,699Alexandros44
- #2,699Aneesh44
- #2,748Aadi43
- #2,748Aahil43
- #2,748Aleksandar43
Tied with 48 names at #2,699; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.