Is April 10 a rare birthday? Uncommon

Rarer than 78% of all 366 dates.

April 10 #284
Most commonSeptember 9RarestDecember 25
Cartoon birthday scene for April 10: a child behind a cake whose candles spell the date
At a glance

April 10 in numbers

The odds, the star sign and the other dates that come with it.

Born each year≈ 10,575in the United States — about 904,000 of them are alive today
In a full stadium133 peopleof 50,000 were born on April 10
On the day itselfEvery 8 secondsa baby is born on April 10 somewhere in the United States
Star signAriesrarer than 19 of the 30 Aries birthdays
Half-birthdayOctober 10six months later, to the day
Conceived aroundJuly 18A summer night, then.
Birth frequency by rank

Where April 10 ranks

From most common birthday to rarest, April 10 ranks in position #284, with 10,575 births a year. 283 other dates are more common. 85 dates are within 1% of its count, anywhere from #238 to #323, so the exact position is a close thing.

56 years of records

April 10 through the years

Where it ranked in the United States, year by year.

Fell on a weekdayOn a weekend
rarestmost
common
1969, Thursday: rank #227 of 365, 9,708 births1970, Friday: rank #217 of 365, 10,072 births1971, Saturday: rank #322 of 365, 8,662 births1972, Monday: rank #258 of 366, 8,698 births1973, Tuesday: rank #162 of 365, 8,843 births1974, Wednesday: rank #250 of 365, 8,446 births1975, Thursday: rank #227 of 365, 8,577 births1976, Saturday: rank #344 of 366, 7,382 births1977, Sunday: rank #363 of 365, 7,376 births1978, Monday: rank #249 of 365, 8,881 births1979, Tuesday: rank #185 of 365, 9,689 births1980, Thursday: rank #208 of 366, 9,943 births1981, Friday: rank #194 of 365, 10,115 births1982, Saturday: rank #351 of 365, 8,385 births1983, Sunday: rank #332 of 365, 8,485 births1984, Tuesday: rank #185 of 366, 10,199 births1985, Wednesday: rank #200 of 365, 10,559 births1986, Thursday: rank #190 of 365, 10,621 births1987, Friday: rank #104 of 365, 11,284 births1988, Sunday: rank #346 of 366, 8,502 births1989, Monday: rank #237 of 365, 11,081 births1990, Tuesday: rank #78 of 365, 12,526 births1991, Wednesday: rank #129 of 365, 12,057 births1992, Friday: rank #114 of 366, 12,052 births1993, Saturday: rank #286 of 365, 9,095 births1994, Sunday: rank #341 of 365, 8,183 births1995, Monday: rank #225 of 365, 10,930 births1996, Wednesday: rank #167 of 366, 11,429 births1997, Thursday: rank #170 of 365, 11,499 births1998, Friday: rank #220 of 365, 11,118 births1999, Saturday: rank #301 of 365, 8,364 births2000, Monday: rank #244 of 366, 11,108 births2001, Tuesday: rank #64 of 365, 12,745 births2002, Wednesday: rank #154 of 365, 12,188 births2003, Thursday: rank #136 of 365, 12,485 births2004, Saturday: rank #312 of 366, 8,044 births2005, Sunday: rank #335 of 365, 7,360 births2006, Monday: rank #235 of 365, 12,048 births2007, Tuesday: rank #134 of 365, 13,339 births2008, Thursday: rank #157 of 366, 13,014 births2009, Friday: rank #236 of 365, 11,925 births2010, Saturday: rank #304 of 365, 7,767 births2011, Sunday: rank #357 of 365, 6,788 births2012, Tuesday: rank #149 of 366, 11,988 births2013, Wednesday: rank #210 of 365, 11,601 births2014, Thursday: rank #187 of 365, 11,886 births2015, Friday: rank #211 of 365, 11,724 births2016, Sunday: rank #350 of 366, 7,060 births2017, Monday: rank #235 of 365, 11,019 births2018, Tuesday: rank #138 of 365, 11,527 births2019, Wednesday: rank #199 of 365, 11,057 births2020, Friday: rank #243 of 366, 10,297 births2021, Saturday: rank #289 of 365, 7,689 births2022, Sunday: rank #354 of 365, 6,594 births2023, Monday: rank #238 of 365, 10,164 births2024, Wednesday: rank #141 of 366, 10,937 births1970198019902000201020202024

On a weekend it slips to #330, from #188 on a working day

Inductions and planned caesareans are booked on working days, so 28.5% fewer babies arrive and the date falls down the ranking. Each bar is the average rank of the years it landed on that day.

#240
Mon
#137
Tue
#181
Wed
#188
Thu
#192
Fri
#314
Sat
#347
Sun
Most common year
2001#64 of 365Tuesday · 12,745 births
Rarest year
1977#363 of 365Sunday · 7,376 births
Weekend years
16 of 5629% of the record2022 was the most recent
Around the world

April 10 in other countries

April 10 is the 83rd rarest birthday in the United States. It is among the 50 rarest in 3 of the 26 other countries, and ranges from #15 in Ecuador to #338 in Germany.

  1. Ecuador

    #15 of 366

    811 births on an average April 10

    INEC, 2013–⁠2023
  2. Brazil

    #28 of 366

    8,614 births on an average April 10

    DATASUS, 1997–⁠2024
  3. Argentina

    #101 of 366

    1,598 births on an average April 10

    DEIS, 2018–⁠2023
  4. Guatemala

    #108 of 366

    967 births on an average April 10

    INE Guatemala, 2018–⁠2024
  5. Switzerland

    #148 of 366

    224 births on an average April 10

    FSO, 1969–⁠2025
  6. Peru

    #150 of 366

    1,213 births on an average April 10

    INEI, 2019–⁠2025
  7. Latvia

    #165 of 366

    54 births on an average April 10

    CSB, 1996–⁠2025
  8. Norway

    #165 of 366

    158 births on an average April 10

    SSB, 2011–⁠2025
  9. Denmark

    #186 of 366

    164 births on an average April 10

    Statistics Denmark, 2007–⁠2025
  10. Malaysia

    #203 of 366

    1,389 births on an average April 10

    DOSM, 2000–⁠2022
  11. Hungary

    #205 of 366

    325 births on an average April 10

    KSH, 1970–⁠2020
  12. Japan

    #221 of 366

    2,756 births on an average April 10

    e-Stat, 1996–⁠2025
  13. Portugal

    #235 of 366

    293 births on an average April 10

    INE Portugal, 1980–⁠2025
  14. Slovenia

    #242 of 366

    52 births on an average April 10

    SURS, 2000–⁠2025
  15. Mexico

    #247 of 366

    4,884 births on an average April 10

    INEGI, 2017–⁠2023
  16. Netherlands

    #253 of 366

    489 births on an average April 10

    CBS, 1995–⁠2025
  17. Finland

    #259 of 366

    137 births on an average April 10

    Statistics Finland, 2010–⁠2025
  18. France

    #288 of 366

    2,093 births on an average April 10

    INSEE, 1998–⁠2024
  19. Costa Rica

    #295 of 366

    161 births on an average April 10

    INEC Costa Rica, 2014–⁠2024
  20. Philippines

    #296 of 366

    4,251 births on an average April 10

    PSA, 2006–⁠2024
  21. Belgium

    #299 of 366

    317 births on an average April 10

    Statbel, 1992–⁠2025
  22. Chile

    #315 of 366

    671 births on an average April 10

    DEIS, 1990–⁠2017
  23. England & Wales

    #316 of 366

    1,745 births on an average April 10

    ONS, 1995–⁠2025
  24. Ireland

    #326 of 366

    162 births on an average April 10

    CSO, 1980–⁠2023
  25. New Zealand

    #331 of 366

    153 births on an average April 10

    Stats NZ, 1980–⁠2023
  26. Germany

    #338 of 366

    1,894 births on an average April 10

    Destatis, 2014–⁠2025
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April against the other eleven

April 10 is the 15th rarest of the 30 days in April. All April birthdays.

April is the 2nd rarest month of the year

An average April day sees 10,557 births in the United States. September is the busiest month, January the quietest.

The whole year

Every date on one grid

In the United States, September is the busiest month of the year to be born in and January the quietest.

Each square is one date

April 10#284 of 36610,575 births a year

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Questions

Quick answers

How many babies are born on April 10?

About 10,575 a year in the United States. It was at its most common in 2001, when 12,745 babies were born and it ranked #64 of 365; at its rarest in 1977, with 7,376 births at #363.

Is April 10 a common birthday?

In the United States, April 10 is the 83rd rarest of 366 dates, with about 10,575 births a year. That puts it on the rarer side of the calendar.

What is the rarest April birthday?

In the United States, April 1: the 15th rarest of all 366 dates, with about 10,016 births a year. The most common April birthday is April 4, the 177th most common of the year.

How precise is the ranking?

In the middle of the calendar it is not exact. 85 other dates are within 1% of April 10's count, spread from #238 to #323, so the position inside that group would shift with a different set of years. That band is the accurate answer; the rank is the simple one. At the ends — Christmas Day, New Year's Day — nothing is close.

Is April 10 rarer in other countries?

In some. It is rarer in 9 of the 26 other countries we hold daily records for. It is at its rarest in Germany, at #338 of 366, and at its most common in Ecuador, at #15.

Our data

How this is counted

Every date is ranked by how many babies are born on it in the United States. Live births by day of birth from the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics, 1989–⁠2024.

Read the full methodology →

Updated October 2026