Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Sunshine” in the USA?

Number of people named “Sunshine” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Sunshine” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Sunshine” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Sunshine” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Sunshine” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Sunshine” by birth year

This chart shows how “Sunshine” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1905 5 0.000011795 5 100%
1907 9 0.000019339 9 100%
1912 8 0.000008097 8 100%
1914 9 0.000006354 9 100%
1915 9 0.000004912 9 100%
1916 12 0.000006203 12 100%
1917 9 0.000004485 9 100%
1918 20 0.000009212 20 100%
1919 11 0.000005213 11 100%
1920 15 0.000006629 15 100%
1921 11 0.000004712 11 100%
1922 18 0.000007863 18 100%
1923 13 0.000005646 13 100%
1924 14 0.000005878 14 100%
1925 8 0.000003429 8 100%
1926 19 0.000008276 19 100%
1927 9 0.00000388 9 100%
1928 6 0.000002654 6 100%
1929 7 0.000003193 7 100%
1931 5 0.000002376 5 100%
1932 10 0.000004736 10 100%
1934 5 0.000002408 5 100%
1952 8 0.000002106 8 100%
1954 6 0.000001507 6 100%
1955 6 0.000001494 6 100%
1956 10 0.000002425 10 100%
1958 7 0.000001693 7 100%
1961 5 0.000001207 5 100%
1966 5 0.000001439 5 100%
1968 5 0.00000148 5 100%
1969 7 0.000002014 7 100%
1970 22 0.0000061 22 100%
1971 53 0.000015441 47 6 77%
1972 81 0.000025772 81 100%
1973 120 0.000039776 115 5 92%
1974 262 0.000086184 255 7 95%
1975 324 0.000107306 324 100%
1976 305 0.000100517 296 9 94%
1977 308 0.000096962 303 5 97%
1978 228 0.000071837 228 100%
1979 240 0.000072137 240 100%
1980 241 0.000069966 241 100%
1981 204 0.00005897 199 5 95%
1982 143 0.000040764 143 100%
1983 126 0.000036381 126 100%
1984 92 0.00002637 92 100%
1985 85 0.000023815 85 100%
1986 68 0.000019117 68 100%
1987 56 0.000015531 56 100%
1988 46 0.000012449 46 100%
1989 54 0.000014046 54 100%
1990 41 0.000010373 41 100%
1991 45 0.000011552 45 100%
1992 41 0.000010674 41 100%
1993 47 0.000012466 47 100%
1994 41 0.000011028 41 100%
1995 51 0.000013926 51 100%
1996 59 0.000016177 59 100%
1997 78 0.000021513 78 100%
1998 67 0.000018215 67 100%
1999 82 0.000022199 82 100%
2000 96 0.000025397 96 100%
2001 78 0.000020837 78 100%
2002 92 0.00002461 92 100%
2003 78 0.000020514 78 100%
2004 86 0.000022508 86 100%
2005 109 0.00002835 109 100%
2006 65 0.00001643 65 100%
2007 88 0.000022013 88 100%
2008 75 0.000019081 75 100%
2009 68 0.0000178 68 100%
2010 74 0.000020023 74 100%
2011 62 0.00001695 62 100%
2012 70 0.000019139 70 100%
2013 63 0.000017281 63 100%
2014 46 0.000012411 46 100%
2015 58 0.000015672 58 100%
2016 51 0.000013901 51 100%
2017 56 0.000015659 56 100%
2018 73 0.000020763 73 100%
2019 65 0.000018727 65 100%
2020 75 0.000022451 75 100%
2021 72 0.000021252 72 100%
2022 69 0.000020395 69 100%
2023 84 0.000025368 76 8 81%
2024 65 0.000019528 65 100%

Explore other names

These names are alphabetically near to Sunshine:

  1. Sunniva
  2. Sunny
  3. Sunnye
  4. Sunrise
  5. Sunset
  6. Sunshine (this page)
  7. Sunshyne
  8. Sunwoo
  9. Sunya
  10. Suoma
  11. Suong