Is April 19 a rare birthday? Ordinary

Rarer than 73% of all 366 dates.

April 19 #266
Most commonSeptember 9RarestDecember 25
Cartoon birthday scene for April 19: a child behind a cake whose candles spell the date
At a glance

April 19 in numbers

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

Born each year≈ 10,624in the United States — about 905,000 of them are alive today
In a full stadium134 peopleof 50,000 were born on April 19
On the day itselfEvery 8 secondsa baby is born on April 19 somewhere in the United States
Star signAriesmore common than 15 of the 30 Aries birthdays
Half-birthdayOctober 19six months later, to the day
Conceived aroundJuly 27A summer night, then.
Birth frequency by rank

Where April 19 ranks

From most common birthday to rarest, April 19 ranks in position #266, with 10,624 births a year. 265 other dates are more common. 88 dates are within 1% of its count, anywhere from #217 to #305, so the exact position is a close thing.

56 years of records

April 19 through the years

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

Fell on a weekdayOn a weekend
rarestmost
common
1969, Saturday: rank #307 of 365, 8,994 births1970, Sunday: rank #363 of 365, 8,174 births1971, Monday: rank #179 of 365, 9,918 births1972, Wednesday: rank #235 of 366, 8,827 births1973, Thursday: rank #209 of 365, 8,672 births1974, Friday: rank #219 of 365, 8,587 births1975, Saturday: rank #316 of 365, 7,614 births1976, Monday: rank #258 of 366, 8,327 births1977, Tuesday: rank #86 of 365, 9,691 births1978, Wednesday: rank #260 of 365, 8,728 births1979, Thursday: rank #259 of 365, 9,248 births1980, Saturday: rank #324 of 366, 8,642 births1981, Sunday: rank #362 of 365, 8,122 births1982, Monday: rank #221 of 365, 10,172 births1983, Tuesday: rank #155 of 365, 10,409 births1984, Thursday: rank #217 of 366, 10,057 births1985, Friday: rank #85 of 365, 11,178 births1986, Saturday: rank #313 of 365, 8,679 births1987, Sunday: rank #361 of 365, 8,225 births1988, Tuesday: rank #185 of 366, 11,044 births1989, Wednesday: rank #213 of 365, 11,254 births1990, Thursday: rank #213 of 365, 11,660 births1991, Friday: rank #149 of 365, 11,961 births1992, Sunday: rank #345 of 366, 8,629 births1993, Monday: rank #238 of 365, 11,136 births1994, Tuesday: rank #99 of 365, 11,966 births1995, Wednesday: rank #122 of 365, 11,680 births1996, Friday: rank #166 of 366, 11,438 births1997, Saturday: rank #292 of 365, 8,497 births1998, Sunday: rank #361 of 365, 7,557 births1999, Monday: rank #246 of 365, 10,767 births2000, Wednesday: rank #142 of 366, 12,251 births2001, Thursday: rank #202 of 365, 11,942 births2002, Friday: rank #179 of 365, 12,054 births2003, Saturday: rank #309 of 365, 8,077 births2004, Monday: rank #238 of 366, 11,614 births2005, Tuesday: rank #108 of 365, 12,975 births2006, Wednesday: rank #194 of 365, 12,752 births2007, Thursday: rank #175 of 365, 13,141 births2008, Saturday: rank #284 of 366, 8,576 births2009, Sunday: rank #338 of 365, 7,231 births2010, Monday: rank #234 of 365, 11,718 births2011, Tuesday: rank #106 of 365, 12,380 births2012, Thursday: rank #224 of 366, 11,468 births2013, Friday: rank #228 of 365, 11,409 births2014, Saturday: rank #321 of 365, 7,627 births2015, Sunday: rank #354 of 365, 7,180 births2016, Tuesday: rank #156 of 366, 11,904 births2017, Wednesday: rank #196 of 365, 11,395 births2018, Thursday: rank #213 of 365, 11,180 births2019, Friday: rank #239 of 365, 10,602 births2020, Sunday: rank #360 of 366, 6,291 births2021, Monday: rank #237 of 365, 10,322 births2022, Tuesday: rank #189 of 365, 10,833 births2023, Wednesday: rank #193 of 365, 10,642 births2024, Friday: rank #229 of 366, 10,338 births1970198019902000201020202024

On a weekend it slips to #332, from #192 on a working day

Inductions and planned caesareans are booked on working days, so 26.8% fewer babies arrive and the date falls down the ranking. Each bar is the average rank of the years it landed on that day.

#231
Mon
#136
Tue
#194
Wed
#214
Thu
#187
Fri
#308
Sat
#356
Sun
Most common year
1985#85 of 365Friday · 11,178 births
Rarest year
1970#363 of 365Sunday · 8,174 births
Weekend years
16 of 5629% of the record2020 was the most recent
Around the world

April 19 in other countries

April 19 is the 101st rarest birthday in the United States. It is among the 50 rarest in 4 of the 26 other countries, and ranges from #65 in Brazil to #339 in Chile.

  1. Brazil

    #65 of 366

    8,507 births on an average April 19

    DATASUS, 1997–⁠2024
  2. Argentina

    #85 of 366

    1,608 births on an average April 19

    DEIS, 2018–⁠2023
  3. Switzerland

    #102 of 366

    227 births on an average April 19

    FSO, 1969–⁠2025
  4. Norway

    #123 of 366

    161 births on an average April 19

    SSB, 2011–⁠2025
  5. Finland

    #153 of 366

    143 births on an average April 19

    Statistics Finland, 2010–⁠2025
  6. Ireland

    #156 of 366

    169 births on an average April 19

    CSO, 1980–⁠2023
  7. Slovenia

    #191 of 366

    53 births on an average April 19

    SURS, 2000–⁠2025
  8. Peru

    #197 of 366

    1,196 births on an average April 19

    INEI, 2019–⁠2025
  9. Latvia

    #202 of 366

    54 births on an average April 19

    CSB, 1996–⁠2025
  10. Netherlands

    #209 of 366

    494 births on an average April 19

    CBS, 1995–⁠2025
  11. Belgium

    #212 of 366

    324 births on an average April 19

    Statbel, 1992–⁠2025
  12. Denmark

    #218 of 366

    163 births on an average April 19

    Statistics Denmark, 2007–⁠2025
  13. Guatemala

    #232 of 366

    934 births on an average April 19

    INE Guatemala, 2018–⁠2024
  14. Ecuador

    #238 of 366

    751 births on an average April 19

    INEC, 2013–⁠2023
  15. Costa Rica

    #240 of 366

    164 births on an average April 19

    INEC Costa Rica, 2014–⁠2024
  16. England & Wales

    #241 of 366

    1,763 births on an average April 19

    ONS, 1995–⁠2025
  17. New Zealand

    #252 of 366

    155 births on an average April 19

    Stats NZ, 1980–⁠2023
  18. Hungary

    #267 of 366

    319 births on an average April 19

    KSH, 1970–⁠2020
  19. France

    #294 of 366

    2,091 births on an average April 19

    INSEE, 1998–⁠2024
  20. Philippines

    #298 of 366

    4,240 births on an average April 19

    PSA, 2006–⁠2024
  21. Japan

    #299 of 366

    2,702 births on an average April 19

    e-Stat, 1996–⁠2025
  22. Malaysia

    #300 of 366

    1,359 births on an average April 19

    DOSM, 2000–⁠2022
  23. Portugal

    #318 of 366

    284 births on an average April 19

    INE Portugal, 1980–⁠2025
  24. Mexico

    #320 of 366

    4,706 births on an average April 19

    INEGI, 2017–⁠2023
  25. Germany

    #330 of 366

    1,912 births on an average April 19

    Destatis, 2014–⁠2025
  26. Chile

    #339 of 366

    659 births on an average April 19

    DEIS, 1990–⁠2017
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April against the other eleven

April 19 is the 12th most common 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 19#266 of 36610,624 births a year

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Questions

Quick answers

How many babies are born on April 19?

About 10,624 a year in the United States. It was at its most common in 1985, when 11,178 babies were born and it ranked #85 of 365; at its rarest in 1970, with 8,174 births at #363.

Is April 19 a common birthday?

In the United States, April 19 is the 101st rarest of 366 dates, with about 10,624 births a year. That makes it an ordinary birthday: neither rare nor especially common.

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. 88 other dates are within 1% of April 19's count, spread from #217 to #305, 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 19 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 Chile, at #339 of 366, and at its most common in Brazil, at #65.

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