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 | — | |
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| 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 | — | |
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| 1907 | #1,384 | 9 | — | |
| 1906 | — | — | ||
| 1905 | #1,931 | 5 | — | |
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| 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.
Where Sunshine is popular in 1974
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Arizona#364 · 1 in 1,921
- Michigan#385 · 1 in 3,001
- Oregon#391 · 1 in 2,609
- Iowa#391 · 1 in 3,367
- California#397 · 1 in 2,316
Best ever in a state: #126 in Nevada, 1976.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona | #364 | 8 | 1 in 1,921 |
| Michigan | #385 | 19 | 1 in 3,001 |
| Iowa | #391 | 5 | 1 in 3,367 |
| Oregon | #391 | 5 | 1 in 2,609 |
| California | #397 | 59 | 1 in 2,316 |
| Colorado | #410 | 6 | 1 in 2,612 |
| Wisconsin | #447 | 6 | 1 in 4,577 |
| Indiana | #459 | 9 | 1 in 3,878 |
| Florida | #508 | 12 | 1 in 3,642 |
| Virginia | #511 | 6 | 1 in 4,625 |
| North Carolina | #669 | 5 | 1 in 6,768 |
| Texas | #711 | 16 | 1 in 5,965 |
| Illinois | #729 | 10 | 1 in 6,972 |
| Ohio | #737 | 8 | 1 in 8,765 |
| Pennsylvania | #773 | 7 | 1 in 9,550 |
| New York | #1,041 | 9 | 1 in 11,461 |
| Alabama | — | — | — |
| Alaska | — | — | — |
| Arkansas | — | — | — |
| Connecticut | — | — | — |
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| District of Columbia | — | — | — |
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| Vermont | — | — | — |
| Washington | — | — | — |
| West Virginia | — | — | — |
| Wyoming | — | — | — |
Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
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 1974
Top girls' names in 1974
Top boys' names in 1974
More about 1974
girls
1,467,534 girls got a published name in 1974; 1 in 5,755 of them was named Sunshine, which outranked 94.1% of the 10,247 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,572,334 boys got a published name in 1974; 1 in 224,619 of them was named Sunshine, which outranked 30.2% of the 6,004 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 26.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,837Zeno8
- #3,837Zenon8
- #3,837Zuri8
- #4,190Sunshine7
- #4,190Absalom7
- #4,190Adarryl7
- #4,190Adel7
- #4,634Aamir6
- #4,634Aashish6
- #4,634Abayomi6
Tied with 443 names at #4,190; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.