Rooney

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Rooney: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Rooney: Recorded since 1999, it reached #1,878 in 2004, and it stood at #5,137 in 2025.

1registrar recorded it
12times a registrar ranked it
27years from first to last
#1878highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 2024–2025

How to read this chart

A rank is a position in one registrar's list for one year.
Ranks from different countries are separate scales, so compare shapes, not numbers.
A rise in rank can be a small change in births, especially far down a list.

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2024	#5891
2025	#5927

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in 10 of the 27 years from 1999 to 2025.

Official data for England and Wales, 1999–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Year-by-year storyFirst recorded, most recent, each country and each decade

Popularity journey

First recorded1999
First recorded at #2943 among boys in England and Wales in 1999 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded1999–2025
Highest recorded position: #1878 among boys in England and Wales, in 2004 (recorded 1999–2025).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #5927 among girls in England and Wales, in 2025.
England and Wales · Girls

Rooney appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 10 years beginning in 1999, and has registered 48 births with the name.

Rooney across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Rooney's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#2943 (1999)	#1878 (2004)	#5137 (2025)	10 of 27	48 (1999–2025)	9 (2006)
England and Wales · Girls	#5891 (2024)	#5891 (2024)	#5927 (2025)	2 of 2	6 (2024–2025)	3 (2024)

Rooney by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Rooney in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	3	1 of 10	3
2000sbusiest	34	6 of 10	6
2010s	8	2 of 10	4
2020s	3	1 of 10	3

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2000s were its busiest decade — the 6 years of it this list covers, averaging 6 births a year.

See the names England and Wales has recorded the most births with →

Rooney appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Full data tableEvery published rank and count

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1999 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #1878 in England and Wales in 2004.

Rooney's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2025	England and Wales	female	#5927	3	High	Verified
2025	England and Wales	male	#5137	3	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	female	#5891	3	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#4747	3	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#3416	5	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#4432	3	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1892	9	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#3208	4	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1878	8	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1962	7	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#3225	3	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#2943	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

Names measured beside itNeighbours, comparisons, related names and shared trajectories

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 1999 and 2025, ranked in 11 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #1,878, first reached in 2004.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 9 births, registered in England and Wales in 2006.

Its record falls into 6 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 8 years.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

4decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 4 decades →
5 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years
6separate stretches the record falls into6 to 9 separate stretches →
8 yearslongest absence inside the recorded period4 to 9 years missing →
#5,137position in 2025, its most recent recorded year
9births registered in its largest year, 2006Under 25 births →

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Daniyaal · #1878, 26y
Ibukunoluwa · #1878, 23y
Mian · #1878, 24y
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Rooney and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,576 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Rooney without appearing here.

Rooney moved ahead of

Erin
In 2011 they stood at #4432 and #2507 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2012 that had become #3416 and #4805.

Moved the opposite way to Rooney

Albie
Between 1999 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Rooney went from #2943 to #5137 while Albie went from #750 to #21.
Alfie
Between 1999 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Rooney went from #2943 to #5137 while Alfie went from #64 to #16.
Alfred
Between 1999 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Rooney went from #2943 to #5137 while Alfred went from #150 to #76.
Archie
Between 1999 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Rooney went from #2943 to #5137 while Archie went from #108 to #11.

Moved the same way as Rooney

Aaron
Between 1999 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Rooney went from #2943 to #5137 and Aaron from #36 to #180.
Alan
Between 1999 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Rooney went from #2943 to #5137 and Alan from #232 to #539.
Alex
Between 1999 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Rooney went from #2943 to #5137 and Alex from #45 to #207.
Alexander
Between 1999 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Rooney went from #2943 to #5137 and Alexander from #20 to #40.

What is known about Rooney

How to read this

How often it is registered: Official record; 1 official registrar, 1999–2025.
Meaning: Not established; Not researched yet.
Origin: Not established; Not researched yet.
Pronunciation: Not established; Not recorded yet.

A claim marked not established does not mean the name lacks a meaning or is not widely used — only that Namewise has not sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1999 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #1878 in England and Wales in 2004. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Rooney

Rooney at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Rooney across 2 official records

Rooney by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Rooney appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Rooney and the names beside it

Rooney moved ahead of

Moved the opposite way to Rooney

Moved the same way as Rooney

What is known about Rooney

Rooney at a glance

Rooney across 2 official records

Rooney by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Rooney appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Rooney and the names beside it

Rooney moved ahead of

Moved the opposite way to Rooney

Moved the same way as Rooney