Rooney — #1971 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Rooney

The Social Security Administration has registered 774 babies named Rooney between 2011 and 2024, spanning 14 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Rooney currently holds the #1971 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 100 babies received it in a single year. Rooney is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 643 additional births since 1943.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Rooney performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 428 births during that ten-year window. Across the 2 decades of recorded activity, Rooney shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 114 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Ohio and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Rooney in 12 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Rooney in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 774 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.