Sunshine

Where Sunshine comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Sunshine.

  • Vowel-ended
Sunshine through the years
  1. 1905
    First appearance
    #1,931 among girls with 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, the most in any year.
  5. 1982
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #1,025.
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

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.