Cooney

Cooney is the 2,935th most common surname in the United States, shared by 11,995 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 24,900.

By the numbers

People: 11,995
Rank: 2,935th
How common: 1 in 24,900
Per 100,000: 4.0

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Anglicized form of Irish Ó Cuana (“descendant of Cuana”), a personal name either derived from cú (“hound”) or cuanna (“elegant, comely”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Cooney described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 89.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.9%
Black, not Hispanic 2.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Cooney

Ray Cooney (born 1932)English playwright, actor, and director
Joan Ganz Cooney (born 1929)American television producer
Kyra Cooney-Cross (born 2002)Australian soccer player
Frank Henry Cooney (1872–1935)Canadian-American politician; ninth Governor of Montana

People named Cooney with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Cooney

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.