Given name & surname
Mooney
“a wealthy man”
Mooney is used as a given name and a surname. One Irish interpretation is “a wealthy man.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Irish interpretation is “a wealthy man.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Irish.
How it developed
From Irish Ó Maonaigh (“descendant of Maonach”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2023. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Mooney through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 6
- 6 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2023
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 2023. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 31,792 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Mooney’s family of names
Mooney has a related form in Maonaigh. Mooney has a related form in Moone. Mooney has a related form in Moonea.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 10
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Moonievariant · English
- Moonevariant
- Moneyvariant · English
- Mooneevariant
- Meanyvariant · English
- Meaneyvariant · English
- Mooneavariant
- Maonaighvariant
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