Meaning and history
This name comes from the English word, which ultimately derives from Old English sunne, meaning “sun,” and scinan, meaning “shine.”
20062006: 65 births, rank #2,728
2007: 88 births, rank #2,231
2008: 75 births, rank #2,511
2009: 68 births, rank #2,672
2010: 74 births, rank #2,493
20112011: 62 births, rank #2,796
2012: 70 births, rank #2,568
2013: 63 births, rank #2,726
2014: 46 births, rank #3,425
2015: 58 births, rank #2,964
20162016: 52 births, rank #3,139
2017: 56 births, rank #2,925
2018: 73 births, rank #2,438
2019: 65 births, rank #2,651
2020: 75 births, rank #2,341
20212021: 72 births, rank #2,460
2022: 69 births, rank #2,554
2023: 77 births, rank #2,352
2024: 66 births, rank #2,637
20252025: 57 births, rank #2,933
Sunshine moved from #707 to #805 for girls between 1980 and 1981. Its highest annual birth count came in 1975, with 324 births.