girls:
5 births since 1925
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
883 births since 1893
#3705 (19th percentile)
overall:
888 births since 1893
#6851 (11th percentile)
The name Roney is the #6,851 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 888 recorded births since 1893. This represents the 11.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 11.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,705 (19.2% percentile) for all time with 883 births since 1893. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1925.
Roney first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1893 (1893 for boys and 1925 for girls). Birth data for Roney is available in 86 out of the 130 years between 1893 and 2022 (86 years for boys and 1 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Roney has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.4% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Roney reached its peak popularity in 1950, achieving the 3.8% percentile (ranked #577) with 15 births per million. The name was most common in 1893, with 50 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
For girls, Roney reached its peak popularity in 1925, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #614) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1925, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1925.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Roney".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Roney. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Roney is pronounced as ROH-nee, which has 2 syllables.
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