Sunshine
#2,933 for girls in 2025, 57 births · Last seen for boys in 2023 at #8,921
Given to girls 99.2% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1975 · 324 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 5,734since 1905
Sunshine over time
Rank among girls' names. Sunshine has never cracked the top 500 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,933 | 57 | — | |
| 2024 | #2,637 | 66 | — | |
| 2023 | #2,352 | 77 | #8,921 | 8 |
| 2022 | #2,554 | 69 | — | |
| 2021 | #2,460 | 72 | — | |
| 2020 | #2,341 | 75 | — | |
| 2019 | #2,651 | 65 | — | |
| 2018 | #2,438 | 73 | — | |
| 2017 | #2,925 | 56 | — | |
| 2016 | #3,139 | 52 | — | |
| 2015 | #2,964 | 58 | — | |
| 2014 | #3,425 | 46 | — | |
| 2013 | #2,726 | 63 | — | |
| 2012 | #2,568 | 70 | — | |
| 2011 | #2,796 | 62 | — | |
| 2010 | #2,493 | 74 | — | |
| 2009 | #2,672 | 68 | — | |
| 2008 | #2,511 | 75 | — | |
| 2007 | #2,231 | 88 | — | |
| 2006 | #2,728 | 65 | — | |
| 2005 | #1,790 | 109 | — | |
| 2004 | #2,100 | 86 | — | |
| 2003 | #2,203 | 78 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,915 | 92 | — | |
| 2001 | #2,115 | 78 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,801 | 96 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,914 | 82 | — | |
| 1998 | #2,146 | 67 | — | |
| 1997 | #1,884 | 78 | — | |
| 1996 | #2,253 | 59 | — | |
| 1995 | #2,486 | 51 | — | |
| 1994 | #2,877 | 41 | — | |
| 1993 | #2,600 | 47 | — | |
| 1992 | #2,869 | 41 | — | |
| 1991 | #2,660 | 45 | — | |
| 1990 | #2,799 | 41 | — | |
| 1989 | #2,222 | 54 | — | |
| 1988 | #2,369 | 46 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,991 | 56 | — | |
| 1986 | #1,717 | 68 | — | |
| 1985 | #1,458 | 85 | — | |
| 1984 | #1,323 | 92 | — | |
| 1983 | #1,090 | 126 | — | |
| 1982 | #1,025 | 143 | — | |
| 1981 | #805 | 199 | #6,262 | 5 |
| 1980 | #705 | 241 | — | |
| 1979 | #707 | 240 | — | |
| 1978 | #696 | 228 | — | |
| 1977 | #574 | 303 | #5,845 | 5 |
| 1976 | #565 | 296 | #3,724 | 9 |
| 1975 | #533 | 324 | — | |
| 1974 | #609 | 255 | #4,190 | 7 |
| 1973 | #1,015 | 115 | #5,101 | 5 |
| 1972 | #1,263 | 81 | — | |
| 1971 | #1,857 | 47 | #4,375 | 6 |
| 1970 | #3,030 | 22 | — | |
| 1969 | #5,974 | 7 | — | |
| 1968 | #7,016 | 5 | — | |
| 1967 | — | — | ||
| 1966 | #6,564 | 5 | — | |
| 1965 | — | — | ||
| 1964 | — | — | ||
| 1963 | — | — | ||
| 1962 | — | — | ||
| 1961 | #6,567 | 5 | — | |
| 1960 | — | — | ||
| 1959 | — | — | ||
| 1958 | #4,890 | 7 | — | |
| 1957 | — | — | ||
| 1956 | #3,910 | 10 | — | |
| 1955 | #5,208 | 6 | — | |
| 1954 | #5,148 | 6 | — | |
| 1953 | — | — | ||
| 1952 | #4,123 | 8 | — | |
| 1951 | — | — | ||
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| 1937 | — | — | ||
| 1936 | — | — | ||
| 1935 | — | — | ||
| 1934 | #4,286 | 5 | — | |
| 1933 | — | — | ||
| 1932 | #2,831 | 10 | — | |
| 1931 | #4,331 | 5 | — | |
| 1930 | — | — | ||
| 1929 | #3,682 | 7 | — | |
| 1928 | #4,195 | 6 | — | |
| 1927 | #3,284 | 9 | — | |
| 1926 | #1,997 | 19 | — | |
| 1925 | #3,664 | 8 | — | |
| 1924 | #2,514 | 14 | — | |
| 1923 | #2,587 | 13 | — | |
| 1922 | #2,109 | 18 | — | |
| 1921 | #2,941 | 11 | — | |
| 1920 | #2,357 | 15 | — | |
| 1919 | #2,813 | 11 | — | |
| 1918 | #1,887 | 20 | — | |
| 1917 | #3,092 | 9 | — | |
| 1916 | #2,498 | 12 | — | |
| 1915 | #2,900 | 9 | — | |
| 1914 | #2,434 | 9 | — | |
| 1913 | — | — | ||
| 1912 | #2,144 | 8 | — | |
| 1911 | — | — | ||
| 1910 | — | — | ||
| 1909 | — | — | ||
| 1908 | — | — | ||
| 1907 | #1,384 | 9 | — | |
| 1906 | — | — | ||
| 1905 | #1,931 | 5 | — | |
| 1904 | — | — | ||
| 1903 | — | — | ||
| 1902 | — | — | ||
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| 1886 | — | — | ||
| 1885 | — | — | ||
| 1884 | — | — | ||
| 1883 | — | — | ||
| 1882 | — | — | ||
| 1881 | — | — | ||
| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five girls were named Sunshine! It came in at #1,931, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1905–1906, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Sunshine
- 296 spots since 2024 (#2,637 → #2,933)
- 592 spots since 2020 (#2,341 → #2,933)
- 31 spots since 2015 (#2,964 → #2,933)
- Biggest jump: 406 spots in 1974 (#1,015 → #609)
- Biggest drop: 220 spots in 1982 (#805 → #1,025)
- Debuted 1905
- Peaked 1975 at #533 (324 births)
- Births halved by 1982, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 8 yrs · run 1974–1981
- Highest: 1 in 4,500 girls born in 1975 were named Sunshine (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 28,198 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 33.3% of all girls named Sunshine (1,911) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 14 | #1,384 (1907) | #1,658 |
| 1910s | 78 | #1,887 (1918) | #2,538 |
| 1920s | 120 | #1,997 (1926) | #2,933 |
| 1930s | 20 | #2,831 (1932) | #3,816 |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 37 | #3,910 (1956) | #4,656 |
| 1960s | 22 | #5,974 (1969) | #6,530 |
| 1970s | 1,911 | #533 (1975) | #1,085 |
| 1980s | 1,110 | #705 (1980) | #1,471 |
| 1990s | 552 | #1,884 (1997) | #2,449 |
| 2000s | 835 | #1,790 (2005) | #2,207 |
| 2010s | 619 | #2,438 (2018) | #2,813 |
| 2020s | 416 | #2,341 (2020) | #2,546 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Sunshine in 2023
Top girls' names in 2023
Top boys' names in 2023
More about 2023
girls
1,604,582 girls got a published name in 2023; 1 in 20,839 of them was named Sunshine, which outranked 86.6% of the 17,615 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,336Lavinia78
- #2,336Rania78
- #2,336Ruhi78
- #2,352Sunshine77
- #2,352Adah77
- #2,352Aiko77
- #2,352Alorah77
- #2,379Anari76
- #2,379Aylen76
- #2,379Bobbi76
Tied with 26 names at #2,352; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,710,576 boys got a published name in 2023; 1 in 213,822 of them was named Sunshine, which outranked 37.2% of the 14,215 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #8,255Zyian9
- #8,255Zyking9
- #8,255Zyre9
- #8,921Sunshine8
- #8,921Aadhi8
- #8,921Aadith8
- #8,921Aadrik8
- #9,763Aaliyan7
- #9,763Aashrit7
- #9,763Abdalrahman7
Tied with 841 names at #8,921; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.