Sunshine
Sunshine is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 65 births. Its best rank was 534th, in 1975.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 650.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1975324 births
- Best rank
- #534in 1975
- Since 1905
- 5,674people given the name
The story in the numbers
5,674 girls have been named Sunshine in the United States since 1905, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1975, with 324 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1983, and the 1970s alone account for 34%. It has spent 8 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Sunshine | |
|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 14 | |
| 1910s | 78 | |
| 1920s | 120 | |
| 1930s | 20 | |
| 1950s | 37 | |
| 1960s | 22 | |
| 1970s | 1,911 | |
| 1980s | 1,110 | |
| 1990s | 552 | |
| 2000s | 835 | |
| 2010s | 618 | |
| 2020s | 357 |
In 1975, its biggest year
Sunshine was the 534th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1975 were Jennifer, Amy, Heather, Melissa and Angela. See all of 1975.
Names that rose and fell with Sunshine
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Amitypeak 1979
- Shilopeak 1978
- Maishapeak 1977
- Sakinahpeak 1976
- Kanikapeak 1978
- Nakiapeak 1974
- Springpeak 1976
- Krissypeak 1978
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.