Rooney
Rooney is given to both girls and boys: 83 girls and 28 boys were given it in 2025 (#2,235 among girls’ names and #3,926 among boys’, #3,306 among all names counting both); 1,529 Americans have been recorded with it since 1943 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,490 Americans named Rooney and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 4 and 13.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rooney by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rooney?
#2,235 among girls’ names, 2025
Rooney rose from #4,132 in 2015 to #2,235 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 20.2 to 51.6 per million.
141 babies in 2024, the peak
Rooney peaked in 2024, when 141 babies were given it (101 girls, #1,963 among girls’ names). The 111 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 79% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 83 | #2,235 | 28 | #3,926 |
| 2024 | 101 | #1,963 | 40 | #3,089 |
| 2023 | 93 | #2,087 | 23 | #4,581 |
| 2022 | 91 | #2,119 | 24 | #4,405 |
| 2021 | 68 | #2,580 | 24 | #4,336 |
| 2020 | 76 | #2,335 | 23 | #4,391 |
| 2019 | 58 | #2,886 | 21 | #4,769 |
| 2018 | 73 | #2,455 | 22 | #4,578 |
| 2017 | 44 | #3,539 | 20 | #4,896 |
| 2016 | 38 | #3,983 | 11 | #7,503 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 36 | #4,132 | 26 | #4,050 |
| 2014 | 38 | #3,986 | 28 | #3,755 |
| 2013 | 32 | #4,517 | 32 | #3,393 |
| 2012 | 21 | #6,295 | 29 | #3,693 |
| 2011 | 6 | #16,371 | 44 | #2,730 |
| 2010 | under 5 | 35 | #3,227 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 23 | #4,400 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 22 | #4,508 | |
| 2007 | under 5 | 19 | #4,945 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 16 | #5,474 | |
| 2005 | under 5 | 7 | #9,920 | |
| 2004 | under 5 | 6 | #11,063 | |
| 1991 | under 5 | 8 | #6,397 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 5 | #9,230 | |
| 1987 | under 5 | 6 | #6,783 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 5 | #7,112 | |
| 1982 | under 5 | 7 | #5,501 | |
| 1974 | under 5 | 6 | #5,117 | |
| 1973 | under 5 | 6 | #4,967 | |
| 1972 | under 5 | 8 | #3,899 | |
| 1970 | under 5 | 8 | #3,769 | |
| 1969 | under 5 | 6 | #4,323 | |
| 1968 | under 5 | 5 | #4,625 | |
| 1967 | under 5 | 12 | #2,450 | |
| 1966 | under 5 | 7 | #3,484 | |
| 1963 | under 5 | 7 | #3,594 | |
| 1958 | under 5 | 6 | #3,863 | |
| 1957 | under 5 | 7 | #3,505 | |
| 1956 | under 5 | 5 | #4,372 | |
| 1955 | under 5 | 5 | #4,302 | |
| 1954 | under 5 | 5 | #4,280 | |
| 1953 | under 5 | 9 | #2,872 | |
| 1951 | under 5 | 5 | #4,151 | |
| 1950 | under 5 | 5 | #4,113 | |
| 1943 | under 5 | 5 | #3,958 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Rooney a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,529 Americans recorded as Rooney, 56% are girls and 44% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Rooney: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rooney, and how old are they?
1,490 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,529 Americans ever recorded as Rooney. The median Rooney alive today is 7 years old; half are between 4 and 13.
The 2020 Census counted 803 people named Rooney (383 women and girls, 420 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 853 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 2 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 36 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 50 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 29 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 226 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,150 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Rooney born?
The states with the most babies named Rooney are California, New York and Minnesota, with 84% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Minnesota is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 13 | #2,449 | 1.0× |
| New York | 9 | #1,500 | 0.2× |
| Minnesota | 5 | #968 | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,374 | 0.2× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Rooney with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,074 babies since 1880, Rooney is the most given (74% of them). In 2025 it was given to 111 of their 111 babies (100%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Rooney
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Rooney and names like it
- Compare Rooney and RoneeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sRooney peaked in 2024.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rooney since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Rooney.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Rooney alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.