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 #5,891 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
10times a registrar ranked it
26years from first to last
#1878highest recorded position
3groupings it qualifies for

Region

Trend unknown

among girls in England and Wales · 2024

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

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

Trend unknownEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in 9 of the 17 years from 1999 to 2015.

Official data for England and Wales, 1999–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

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 recorded1999–2015
Highest recorded position: #1878 among boys in England and Wales, in 2004 (recorded 1999–2015).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2015
Most recently recorded at #4747 among boys in England and Wales, in 2015.
England and Wales · Boys

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

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 Waleshas 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.

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1999 to 2024. 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
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.

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 1999 and 2024, ranked in 10 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 →
#5,891position in 2024, 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.

Next in the catalogue

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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.

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Ibukunoluwa · #1878, 22y
Mian · #1878, 23y
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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 2,573 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 Compare
In 2011 they stood at #4432 and #2507 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2012 that had become #3416 and #4805.
Madison Compare
In 2011 they stood at #4432 and #2775 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2012 that had become #3416 and #3987.

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't 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 2024. 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 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

Rooney at a glance

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