Sunshine

Where Sunshine comes from

Sunshine hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1905
    First appearance
    #1,931 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1927
    Sunshine Parker born
    American actor
  3. 1974
    Sunshine Anderson born
    American singer
  4. 1975
    Peak, #533
    324 babies named Sunshine — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1982
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,025.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Sunshine Anderson · American singer, born 1974
  • Sunshine Parker · American actor, 1927–1999
  • Sunshine Dizon · Filipina actress, born 1983
  • Sunshine Cruz · Filipino actress, born 1977
  • Sunshine Logroño · American actor, born 1951

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.