Rooney

Rooney is the 2,167th most common surname in the United States, shared by 16,309 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 18,300.

By the numbers

People: 16,309
Rank: 2,167th
How common: 1 in 18,300
Per 100,000: 5.5

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 91.4%
Hispanic or Latino 4.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.8%
Black, not Hispanic 0.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Rooney

Wayne Rooney (born 1985)English footballer and manager
Mickey Rooney (1920–2014)American actor
Sally Rooney (born 1991)Irish author
Martyn Rooney (born 1987)athletics competitor
Andy Rooney (1919–2011)writer, humorist, television personality
Sharon Rooney (born 1988)Scottish actress
Giaan Rooney (born 1982)Australian swimmer, Olympic gold medallist, world champion, former world record-holder
Sean Rooney (born 1982)volleyball player

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

Surnames like Rooney

Also a first name

Rooney has been given to 1,529 American babies as a first name since 1943, peaking in 2024. See it as a given name.

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.