About the name Sunshine
Sunshine belongs to the English & American tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess.
In the United States, Sunshine first appears in Social Security records in 1905. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #534 in 1975, and in 2024 65 babies received the name — 5,674 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.