Meaning not yet researched.
Sunshine: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 57 in 2025. Its best rank was #534 in 1975.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #534 in 1975; #2,952 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Sunshine in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,952 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1975, at #534.
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Sunshine: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 57 girls in 2025. Peak: #534 in 1975 · most girls in one year: 324 (1975).
In 2025, 57 US girls were named Sunshine, making it the 2,952nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 295 places from #2,657 in 2024. That is 9 fewer than the 66 girls named Sunshine in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #534, reached in 1975. That year also had the most girls given the name: 324. For comparison, it was #2,998 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Sunshine in 87 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1905 with 5 babies. In all, 5,779 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 0.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 1,943 babies named Sunshine.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 662 US girls were named Sunshine; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 77. In 2025 that was about 1 in 28,198 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Sunshine ranked highest in Texas in 2025, at #2,892 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Sunshyne are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Sunshyne (106).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Sunshine in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 49 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 7 | #2,892 | — |
| California | 6 | #3,065 | #2,025 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 57 | #2,952 | — | — |
| 2024 | 66 | #2,657 | — | — |
| 2023 | 77 | #2,376 | 8 | #9,631 |
| 2022 | 69 | #2,576 | — | — |
| 2021 | 72 | #2,483 | — | — |
| 2020 | 75 | #2,374 | — | — |
| 2019 | 65 | #2,677 | — | — |
| 2018 | 73 | #2,456 | — | — |
| 2017 | 56 | #2,961 | — | — |
| 2016 | 52 | #3,181 | — | — |
| 2015 | 58 | #2,998 | — | — |
| 2014 | 46 | #3,480 | — | — |
| 2013 | 63 | #2,762 | — | — |
| 2012 | 70 | #2,595 | — | — |
| 2011 | 62 | #2,836 | — | — |
| 2010 | 74 | #2,513 | — | — |
| 2009 | 68 | #2,704 | — | — |
| 2008 | 75 | #2,532 | — | — |
| 2007 | 88 | #2,244 | — | — |
| 2006 | 65 | #2,755 | — | — |
| 2005 | 109 | #1,801 | — | — |
| 2004 | 86 | #2,114 | — | — |
| 2003 | 78 | #2,225 | — | — |
| 2002 | 92 | #1,931 | — | — |
| 2001 | 78 | #2,125 | — | — |
| 2000 | 96 | #1,814 | — | — |
| 1999 | 82 | #1,938 | — | — |
| 1998 | 67 | #2,160 | — | — |
| 1997 | 78 | #1,897 | — | — |
| 1996 | 59 | #2,278 | — | — |
| 1995 | 51 | #2,513 | — | — |
| 1994 | 41 | #2,930 | — | — |
| 1993 | 47 | #2,634 | — | — |
| 1992 | 41 | #2,915 | — | — |
| 1991 | 45 | #2,699 | — | — |
| 1990 | 41 | #2,846 | — | — |
| 1989 | 54 | #2,245 | — | — |
| 1988 | 46 | #2,410 | — | — |
| 1987 | 56 | #2,015 | — | — |
| 1986 | 68 | #1,735 | — | — |
| 1985 | 85 | #1,470 | — | — |
| 1984 | 92 | #1,329 | — | — |
| 1983 | 126 | #1,093 | — | — |
| 1982 | 143 | #1,029 | — | — |
| 1981 | 199 | #805 | 5 | #7,151 |
| 1980 | 241 | #707 | — | — |
| 1979 | 240 | #709 | — | — |
| 1978 | 228 | #697 | — | — |
| 1977 | 303 | #574 | 5 | #6,740 |
| 1976 | 296 | #565 | 9 | #3,971 |
| 1975 | 324 | #534 | — | — |
| 1974 | 255 | #611 | 7 | #4,578 |
| 1973 | 115 | #1,026 | 5 | #5,790 |
| 1972 | 81 | #1,276 | — | — |
| 1971 | 47 | #1,872 | 6 | #4,851 |
| 1970 | 22 | #3,096 | — | — |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,521 | — | — |
| 1968 | 5 | #8,042 | — | — |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,479 | — | — |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,409 | — | — |
| 1958 | 7 | #5,340 | — | — |
| 1956 | 10 | #4,133 | — | — |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,752 | — | — |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,676 | — | — |
| 1952 | 8 | #4,442 | — | — |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,885 | — | — |
| 1932 | 10 | #3,024 | — | — |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,891 | — | — |
| 1929 | 7 | #4,004 | — | — |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,662 | — | — |
| 1927 | 9 | #3,536 | — | — |
| 1926 | 19 | #2,066 | — | — |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,989 | — | — |
| 1924 | 14 | #2,649 | — | — |
| 1923 | 13 | #2,712 | — | — |
| 1922 | 18 | #2,178 | — | — |
| 1921 | 11 | #3,130 | — | — |
| 1920 | 15 | #2,449 | — | — |
| 1919 | 11 | #2,984 | — | — |
| 1918 | 20 | #1,951 | — | — |
| 1917 | 9 | #3,314 | — | — |
| 1916 | 12 | #2,637 | — | — |
| 1915 | 9 | #3,107 | — | — |
| 1914 | 9 | #2,609 | — | — |
| 1912 | 8 | #2,331 | — | — |
| 1907 | 9 | #1,494 | — | — |
| 1905 | 5 | #2,197 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).