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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| 1908 | — | — | ||
| 1907 | #1,384 | 9 | — | |
| 1906 | — | — | ||
| 1905 | #1,931 | 5 | — | |
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| 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.
Where Sunshine is popular in 1978
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Washington#330 · 1 in 2,086
- Arizona#345 · 1 in 1,820
- Kansas#387 · 1 in 2,687
- Utah#395 · 1 in 2,528
- Oregon#454 · 1 in 3,089
Best ever in a state: #126 in Nevada, 1976.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Washington | #330 | 11 | 1 in 2,086 |
| Arizona | #345 | 9 | 1 in 1,820 |
| Kansas | #387 | 5 | 1 in 2,687 |
| Utah | #395 | 6 | 1 in 2,528 |
| Oregon | #454 | 5 | 1 in 3,089 |
| Oklahoma | #482 | 5 | 1 in 3,401 |
| Michigan | #515 | 13 | 1 in 4,427 |
| Virginia | #541 | 6 | 1 in 4,640 |
| Tennessee | #547 | 6 | 1 in 4,644 |
| Missouri | #570 | 6 | 1 in 5,109 |
| Florida | #573 | 11 | 1 in 4,002 |
| Louisiana | #591 | 7 | 1 in 3,931 |
| California | #610 | 34 | 1 in 4,510 |
| Indiana | #655 | 5 | 1 in 6,959 |
| Pennsylvania | #687 | 9 | 1 in 7,334 |
| Texas | #727 | 18 | 1 in 5,744 |
| Ohio | #874 | 6 | 1 in 11,492 |
| Illinois | #1,232 | 5 | 1 in 14,181 |
| Alabama | — | — | — |
| Alaska | — | — | — |
| Arkansas | — | — | — |
| Colorado | — | — | — |
| Connecticut | — | — | — |
| Delaware | — | — | — |
| District of Columbia | — | — | — |
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| North Carolina | — | — | — |
| North Dakota | — | — | — |
| Rhode Island | — | — | — |
| South Carolina | — | — | — |
| South Dakota | — | — | — |
| Vermont | — | — | — |
| West Virginia | — | — | — |
| Wisconsin | — | — | — |
| 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 1978
Top girls' names in 1978
More about 1978
girls
1,531,859 girls got a published name in 1978; 1 in 6,719 of them was named Sunshine, which outranked 93.9% of the 11,475 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).