# Sunshine (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/sunshine/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 5,779 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 45 / 5,734 (99% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 62, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 62 | 2,836 |
| 2012 | 70 | 2,595 |
| 2013 | 63 | 2,762 |
| 2014 | 46 | 3,480 |
| 2015 | 58 | 2,998 |
| 2016 | 52 | 3,181 |
| 2017 | 56 | 2,961 |
| 2018 | 73 | 2,456 |
| 2019 | 65 | 2,677 |
| 2020 | 75 | 2,374 |
| 2021 | 72 | 2,483 |
| 2022 | 69 | 2,576 |
| 2023 | 77 | 2,376 |
| 2024 | 66 | 2,657 |
| 2025 | 57 | 2,952 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1971 | 6 | 4,851 |
| 1973 | 5 | 5,790 |
| 1974 | 7 | 4,578 |
| 1976 | 9 | 3,971 |
| 1977 | 5 | 6,740 |
| 1981 | 5 | 7,151 |
| 2023 | 8 | 9,631 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 3 | 3,824 |
| 1999 | 5 | 2,770 |
| 2005 | 3 | 4,798 |
| 2008 | 3 | 5,545 |
| 2012 | 6 | 3,681 |
| 2014 | 4 | 4,684 |
| 2015 | 5 | 4,103 |
| 2017 | 5 | 4,063 |
| 2018 | 3 | 5,666 |
| 2020 | 4 | 4,535 |
| 2021 | 5 | 3,961 |
| 2023 | 5 | 4,056 |
| 2024 | 6 | 3,695 |
| 2025 | 5 | 4,201 |

## People named Sunshine

- Sunshine Anderson, American singer
- Sunshine Parker, American actor (1927-1999)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.