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How popular is “Rooney” in the USA?

Number of people named “Rooney” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Rooney” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Rooney” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Rooney” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Rooney” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Rooney” by birth year

This chart shows how “Rooney” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1943 5 0.000001771 5 -100%
1950 5 0.000001427 5 -100%
1951 5 0.000001357 5 -100%
1953 9 0.000002335 9 -100%
1954 5 0.000001256 5 -100%
1955 5 0.000001245 5 -100%
1956 5 0.000001213 5 -100%
1957 7 0.000001666 7 -100%
1958 6 0.000001451 6 -100%
1963 7 0.000001768 7 -100%
1966 7 0.000002014 7 -100%
1967 12 0.000003535 12 -100%
1968 5 0.00000148 5 -100%
1969 6 0.000001726 6 -100%
1970 8 0.000002218 8 -100%
1972 8 0.000002545 8 -100%
1973 6 0.000001989 6 -100%
1974 6 0.000001974 6 -100%
1982 7 0.000001995 7 -100%
1983 5 0.000001444 5 -100%
1987 6 0.000001664 6 -100%
1990 5 0.000001265 5 -100%
1991 8 0.000002054 8 -100%
2004 6 0.00000157 6 -100%
2005 7 0.000001821 7 -100%
2006 16 0.000004044 16 -100%
2007 19 0.000004753 19 -100%
2008 22 0.000005597 22 -100%
2009 23 0.000006021 23 -100%
2010 35 0.00000947 35 -100%
2011 50 0.000013669 6 44 -76%
2012 50 0.000013671 21 29 -16%
2013 64 0.000017555 32 32 0%
2014 66 0.000017807 38 28 15%
2015 62 0.000016753 36 26 16%
2016 49 0.000013356 38 11 55%
2017 64 0.000017896 44 20 38%
2018 95 0.00002702 73 22 54%
2019 79 0.00002276 58 21 47%
2020 99 0.000029636 76 23 54%
2021 92 0.000027155 68 24 48%
2022 115 0.000033992 91 24 58%
2023 116 0.000035033 93 23 60%
2024 140 0.000042061 100 40 43%

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