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The rooney Surname

rooney Name Meaning and History

  1. reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Ruanaidh ‘descendant of Ruanadh’, a byname meaning ‘champion’.
  2. reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Ruadháin (see Ruane).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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rooney Family Facts

Distribution of rooney Families in the US in 1920
Number of rooney families
 429-855
 144-428		 1-143
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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