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Rooney: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 83 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,963 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,963 in 2024; #2,235 in 2025. About 75% of babies named Rooney in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,235 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #1,963.
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Rooney: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 83 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,963 in 2024 · most girls in one year: 101 (2024).
In 2025, 83 US girls were named Rooney, making it the 2,235th most common girls’ name of the year, down 272 places from #1,963 in 2024. That is 18 fewer than the 101 girls named Rooney in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,963, reached in 2024. That year also had the most girls given the name: 101. For comparison, it was #4,133 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 28 US boys were named Rooney, making it the 3,927th most common boys’ name of the year, down 837 places from #3,090 in 2024. That is 12 fewer than the 40 boys named Rooney in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,451, reached in 1967. The most boys given the name in a single year was 44, in 2011. For comparison, it was #4,052 in 2015 and #4,115 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Rooney in 45 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1943 with 5 babies. In all, 1,529 US babies have been given the name, 56% of them girls and 44% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 674 babies named Rooney.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 725 US girls were named Rooney; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 101. In 2025 that was about 1 in 19,365 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Rooney ranked highest in Minnesota in 2025, at #968 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Ronny (15,045 babies since 1880) and Rony (1,996 babies since 1880).
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Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Rooney in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | 5 | #968 | — |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,374 | — |
| New York | 9 | #1,500 | — |
| California | 8 | #2,449 | #3,855 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 83 | #2,235 | 28 | #3,927 |
| 2024 | 101 | #1,963 | 40 | #3,090 |
| 2023 | 93 | #2,087 | 23 | #4,585 |
| 2022 | 91 | #2,119 | 24 | #4,409 |
| 2021 | 68 | #2,580 | 24 | #4,340 |
| 2020 | 76 | #2,335 | 23 | #4,395 |
| 2019 | 58 | #2,886 | 21 | #4,773 |
| 2018 | 73 | #2,455 | 22 | #4,582 |
| 2017 | 44 | #3,540 | 20 | #4,900 |
| 2016 | 38 | #3,983 | 11 | #7,508 |
| 2015 | 36 | #4,133 | 26 | #4,052 |
| 2014 | 38 | #3,988 | 28 | #3,758 |
| 2013 | 32 | #4,519 | 32 | #3,395 |
| 2012 | 21 | #6,298 | 29 | #3,696 |
| 2011 | 6 | #16,379 | 44 | #2,731 |
| 2010 | — | — | 35 | #3,228 |
| 2009 | — | — | 23 | #4,402 |
| 2008 | — | — | 22 | #4,511 |
| 2007 | — | — | 19 | #4,947 |
| 2006 | — | — | 16 | #5,478 |
| 2005 | — | — | 7 | #9,927 |
| 2004 | — | — | 6 | #11,070 |
| 1991 | — | — | 8 | #6,404 |
| 1990 | — | — | 5 | #9,239 |
| 1987 | — | — | 6 | #6,790 |
| 1983 | — | — | 5 | #7,116 |
| 1982 | — | — | 7 | #5,503 |
| 1974 | — | — | 6 | #5,119 |
| 1973 | — | — | 6 | #4,969 |
| 1972 | — | — | 8 | #3,901 |
| 1970 | — | — | 8 | #3,771 |
| 1969 | — | — | 6 | #4,324 |
| 1968 | — | — | 5 | #4,627 |
| 1967 | — | — | 12 | #2,451 |
| 1966 | — | — | 7 | #3,485 |
| 1963 | — | — | 7 | #3,595 |
| 1958 | — | — | 6 | #3,864 |
| 1957 | — | — | 7 | #3,506 |
| 1956 | — | — | 5 | #4,374 |
| 1955 | — | — | 5 | #4,303 |
| 1954 | — | — | 5 | #4,281 |
| 1953 | — | — | 9 | #2,873 |
| 1951 | — | — | 5 | #4,152 |
| 1950 | — | — | 5 | #4,115 |
| 1943 | — | — | 5 | #3,959 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).