Mooney

At the 2020 census, 31,792 Americans bore the surname Mooney — 1,082nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 9,402.

By the numbers

People: 31,792
Rank: 1,082nd
How common: 1 in 9,402
Per 100,000: 10.6

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Maonaigh (“descendant of Maonach”), a personal name derived from maoineach (“rich, wealthy; precious, beloved”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Mooney described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 87.7%
Black, not Hispanic 4.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Mooney

Beth Mooney (born 1994)Australian cricketer
Debra Mooney (born 1947)American actress
Alex X. Mooney (born 1971)American politician
Kyle Mooney (born 1984)American comedian and writer
Edward Mooney (1882–1958)Catholic cardinal
James Mooney (1861–1921)American ethnographer
Peter Mooney (born 1983)Canadian actor
Michael Mooney (1930–1985)American sailor

People named Mooney with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Mooney

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.