Is April 2 a rare birthday? Ordinary
Rarer than 67% of all 366 dates.
April 2 in numbers
The odds, the star sign and the other dates that come with it.
Where April 2 ranks
From most common birthday to rarest, April 2 ranks in position #246, with 10,656 births a year. 245 other dates are more common. 91 dates are within 1% of its count, anywhere from #201 to #292, so the exact position is a close thing.
April 2 through the years
Where it ranked in the United States, year by year.
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April 2 in other countries
April 2 is the 121st rarest birthday in the United States. It is among the 50 rarest in 12 of the 26 other countries, and ranges from #13 in Japan to #359 in Mexico.
Japan
#13 of 366
3,030 births on an average April 2
e-Stat, 1996–2025Brazil
#63 of 366
8,523 births on an average April 2
DATASUS, 1997–2024Belgium
#130 of 366
331 births on an average April 2
Statbel, 1992–2025Ireland
#163 of 366
168 births on an average April 2
CSO, 1980–2023Ecuador
#174 of 366
765 births on an average April 2
INEC, 2013–2023Switzerland
#196 of 366
222 births on an average April 2
FSO, 1969–2025Latvia
#199 of 366
54 births on an average April 2
CSB, 1996–2025Peru
#206 of 366
1,192 births on an average April 2
INEI, 2019–2025Hungary
#234 of 366
323 births on an average April 2
KSH, 1970–2020Guatemala
#256 of 366
926 births on an average April 2
INE Guatemala, 2018–2024Norway
#258 of 366
150 births on an average April 2
SSB, 2011–2025Malaysia
#268 of 366
1,373 births on an average April 2
DOSM, 2000–2022Finland
#305 of 366
135 births on an average April 2
Statistics Finland, 2010–2025New Zealand
#306 of 366
154 births on an average April 2
Stats NZ, 1980–2023Portugal
#320 of 366
284 births on an average April 2
INE Portugal, 1980–2025Philippines
#325 of 366
4,135 births on an average April 2
PSA, 2006–2024Slovenia
#332 of 366
49 births on an average April 2
SURS, 2000–2025Netherlands
#334 of 366
477 births on an average April 2
CBS, 1995–2025Chile
#335 of 366
662 births on an average April 2
DEIS, 1990–2017France
#345 of 366
2,042 births on an average April 2
INSEE, 1998–2024Costa Rica
#346 of 366
156 births on an average April 2
INEC Costa Rica, 2014–2024Denmark
#350 of 366
152 births on an average April 2
Statistics Denmark, 2007–2025Argentina
#353 of 366
1,222 births on an average April 2
DEIS, 2018–2023England & Wales
#356 of 366
1,716 births on an average April 2
ONS, 1995–2025Germany
#358 of 366
1,828 births on an average April 2
Destatis, 2014–2025Mexico
#359 of 366
4,454 births on an average April 2
INEGI, 2017–2023
Famous people born on April 2
Ranked by how often people looked them up on Wikipedia last year.
Pedro PascalChilean and American actor · born 1975
Jesse PlemonsAmerican actor · born 1988
Emma MyersAmerican actress · born 2002
Michael FassbenderGerman and Irish actor · born 1977
Marvin GayeAmerican singer and songwriter · born 1939
Zach BryanAmerican singer-songwriter · born 1996
Ajay DevgnIndian actor and filmmaker · born 1969
Rodney KingBlack American victim of police brutality · born 1965April against the other eleven
April 2 is the 5th 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.
Quick answers
How many babies are born on April 2?
About 10,656 a year in the United States. It was at its most common in 2024, when 11,371 babies were born and it ranked #62 of 366; at its rarest in 1989, with 8,412 births at #363.
Is April 2 a common birthday?
In the United States, April 2 is the 121st rarest of 366 dates, with about 10,656 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. 91 other dates are within 1% of April 2's count, spread from #201 to #292, 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 2 rarer in other countries?
In some. It is rarer in 17 of the 26 other countries we hold daily records for. It is at its rarest in Mexico, at #359 of 366, and at its most common in Japan, at #13.
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.
Updated October 2026