Roney
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɹoʊni/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Roney is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): IoM; Cumb and Lancs;. from Irish Ó Ruanaidh, see Rooney .
- USUnited States1 in 55K(measured from records)
- CACanada≈1 in 44K
- FIFinland≈1 in 53K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 113 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 44K (inferred from the name graph)
6,015 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Canada, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Main GB Location (1881): IoM; Cumb and Lancs;. from Irish Ó Ruanaidh, see Rooney .
Sources 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Where in the world(measured from records)
Roney counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 6,015 | 1 in 55K | 6K | Roney | 93 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈960 est. | ≈1 in 69K | 492 | Roney | 17 |
| CA Canada | ≈870 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Roney | 9 |
| EG Egypt | ≈590 est. | ≈1 in 176K | — | Roney | 6 |
| BR Brazil | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 370K | 7.4K | Roney | 113 |
| FI Finland | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 53K | 10 | — | 1 |
| PA Panama | ≈55 est. | ≈1 in 70K | 2 | Roney | 6 |
6,015 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ernest Roneyb. 1900GBOlympic sailor
- Joseph Roneyb. 1935HTpolitician
- Bill Roneyb. 1938AUAustralian rugby league footballer
- Roberto Roneyb. 1939BRBrazilian actor (1939-2010)
- Keith Roneyb. 1948CACanadian international lawn bowler (born 1948)
- Wallace Roneyb. 1960USAmerican jazz trumpeter (1960–2020)
- Antoine Roneyb. 1963USAmerican musician
- Shanti Roneyb. 1970SESwedish actor
- Matt Roneyb. 1980USAmerican baseball player
- Ted RoneyUScollege basketball player (1970–1972) Wyoming
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 44 sources across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 7.4K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2020 | 7.3K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 7.3K | #2,093 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 7K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 6.5K | #2,803 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 6.5K | #1,009 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 6.3K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 4.4K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 2.2K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1980 | 2.1K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1990 | 2K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 873 | #13,083 |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Roney mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): IoM; Cumb and Lancs;. from Irish Ó Ruanaidh, see Rooney . Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- How do you pronounce Roney?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɹoʊni/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Roney have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 6.0 thousand people named Roney, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled roney.
- How common is the name Roney?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,015 people named Roney in 2010, about 1 in 55 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/roneyThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Roney”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.