Sunshine is an English word name that means exactly what it says, "sunlight" and by extension "cheerfulness", and it entered the birth registers in the 1960s and 1970s with the flower-child generation. It remains a gentle nature choice alongside Summer and Meadow. In the United States Sunshine stood at number 1814 in 2000, peaked at number 1801 in 2005 and sits at number 2952 in 2025.