Entry № 8816 · Irish origin

Rooney Rooney — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ROO-nee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Irish
Meaning
"Red-haired warrior (Rooney Mara; Mickey Rooney)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Irish)

A name that means "red-haired warrior (rooney mara; mickey rooney)".

Rooney is from the Irish Ó Ruanaidh (descendant of Ruanaidh, the red-haired).

Red-haired warrior (Rooney Mara; Mickey Rooney) — a Irish name.

The name in its native script.

Rooney
Transliteration
Rooney
Pronunciation
/ ˈruː.ni /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Rooney stands.

Rooney does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Rooneys before her.

Real people
Rooney Mara
American 2x Oscar nominee.
born 1985
Mickey Rooney
American actor (88-year career).
1920 – 2014
Sally Rooney
Irish novelist (Normal People).
born 1991
In fiction
Rooney
Modern American naming.

Names connected to Rooney.

The number behind Rooney.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Rooney reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.