Is April 25 a rare birthday? Ordinary

Rarer than 68% of all 366 dates.

April 25 #250
Most commonSeptember 9RarestDecember 25
Cartoon birthday scene for April 25: a child behind a cake whose candles spell the date
At a glance

April 25 in numbers

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

Born each year≈ 10,652in the United States — about 908,000 of them are alive today
In a full stadium134 peopleof 50,000 were born on April 25
On the day itselfEvery 8 secondsa baby is born on April 25 somewhere in the United States
Star signTaurusrarer than 18 of the 31 Taurus birthdays
Half-birthdayOctober 25six months later, to the day
Conceived aroundAugust 2A summer night, then.
Birth frequency by rank

Where April 25 ranks

From most common birthday to rarest, April 25 ranks in position #250, with 10,652 births a year. 249 other dates are more common. 93 dates are within 1% of its count, anywhere from #203 to #296, so the exact position is a close thing.

56 years of records

April 25 through the years

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

Fell on a weekdayOn a weekend
rarestmost
common
1969, Friday: rank #238 of 365, 9,646 births1970, Saturday: rank #341 of 365, 8,824 births1971, Sunday: rank #356 of 365, 7,984 births1972, Tuesday: rank #119 of 366, 9,313 births1973, Wednesday: rank #255 of 365, 8,352 births1974, Thursday: rank #227 of 365, 8,556 births1975, Friday: rank #169 of 365, 8,855 births1976, Sunday: rank #365 of 366, 6,817 births1977, Monday: rank #243 of 365, 9,011 births1978, Tuesday: rank #218 of 365, 9,092 births1979, Wednesday: rank #198 of 365, 9,635 births1980, Friday: rank #186 of 366, 10,007 births1981, Saturday: rank #340 of 365, 8,431 births1982, Sunday: rank #364 of 365, 7,855 births1983, Monday: rank #161 of 365, 10,371 births1984, Wednesday: rank #218 of 366, 10,052 births1985, Thursday: rank #179 of 365, 10,634 births1986, Friday: rank #110 of 365, 10,988 births1987, Saturday: rank #321 of 365, 8,663 births1988, Monday: rank #195 of 366, 11,004 births1989, Tuesday: rank #96 of 365, 12,031 births1990, Wednesday: rank #71 of 365, 12,600 births1991, Thursday: rank #118 of 365, 12,135 births1992, Saturday: rank #281 of 366, 9,452 births1993, Sunday: rank #345 of 365, 8,356 births1994, Monday: rank #243 of 365, 10,909 births1995, Tuesday: rank #99 of 365, 11,811 births1996, Thursday: rank #184 of 366, 11,340 births1997, Friday: rank #195 of 365, 11,295 births1998, Saturday: rank #297 of 365, 8,469 births1999, Sunday: rank #363 of 365, 7,370 births2000, Tuesday: rank #146 of 366, 12,237 births2001, Wednesday: rank #96 of 365, 12,444 births2002, Thursday: rank #140 of 365, 12,249 births2003, Friday: rank #202 of 365, 12,049 births2004, Sunday: rank #351 of 366, 7,400 births2005, Monday: rank #239 of 365, 11,794 births2006, Tuesday: rank #149 of 365, 13,024 births2007, Wednesday: rank #177 of 365, 13,124 births2008, Friday: rank #209 of 366, 12,670 births2009, Saturday: rank #295 of 365, 8,113 births2010, Sunday: rank #347 of 365, 6,913 births2011, Monday: rank #243 of 365, 11,299 births2012, Wednesday: rank #212 of 366, 11,598 births2013, Thursday: rank #222 of 365, 11,502 births2014, Friday: rank #223 of 365, 11,662 births2015, Saturday: rank #294 of 365, 8,101 births2016, Monday: rank #214 of 366, 11,593 births2017, Tuesday: rank #129 of 365, 11,750 births2018, Wednesday: rank #193 of 365, 11,313 births2019, Thursday: rank #133 of 365, 11,415 births2020, Saturday: rank #300 of 366, 7,442 births2021, Sunday: rank #345 of 365, 6,556 births2022, Monday: rank #243 of 365, 10,242 births2023, Tuesday: rank #192 of 365, 10,643 births2024, Thursday: rank #210 of 366, 10,585 births1970198019902000201020202024

On a weekend it slips to #332, from #182 on a working day

Inductions and planned caesareans are booked on working days, so 28.1% fewer babies arrive and the date falls down the ranking. Each bar is the average rank of the years it landed on that day.

#223
Mon
#144
Tue
#178
Wed
#177
Thu
#192
Fri
#309
Sat
#355
Sun
Most common year
1990#71 of 365Wednesday · 12,600 births
Rarest year
1976#365 of 366Sunday · 6,817 births
Weekend years
16 of 5629% of the record2021 was the most recent
Around the world

April 25 in other countries

April 25 is the 117th rarest birthday in the United States. It is among the 50 rarest in 3 of the 26 other countries, and ranges from #4 in Brazil to #362 in New Zealand.

  1. Brazil

    #4 of 366

    8,767 births on an average April 25

    DATASUS, 1997–⁠2024
  2. Switzerland

    #50 of 366

    231 births on an average April 25

    FSO, 1969–⁠2025
  3. Peru

    #57 of 366

    1,256 births on an average April 25

    INEI, 2019–⁠2025
  4. Argentina

    #63 of 366

    1,643 births on an average April 25

    DEIS, 2018–⁠2023
  5. Ecuador

    #63 of 366

    793 births on an average April 25

    INEC, 2013–⁠2023
  6. Norway

    #73 of 366

    165 births on an average April 25

    SSB, 2011–⁠2025
  7. Japan

    #93 of 366

    2,859 births on an average April 25

    e-Stat, 1996–⁠2025
  8. Latvia

    #104 of 366

    56 births on an average April 25

    CSB, 1996–⁠2025
  9. Ireland

    #117 of 366

    170 births on an average April 25

    CSO, 1980–⁠2023
  10. Finland

    #125 of 366

    144 births on an average April 25

    Statistics Finland, 2010–⁠2025
  11. Slovenia

    #131 of 366

    54 births on an average April 25

    SURS, 2000–⁠2025
  12. Belgium

    #155 of 366

    329 births on an average April 25

    Statbel, 1992–⁠2025
  13. Hungary

    #158 of 366

    328 births on an average April 25

    KSH, 1970–⁠2020
  14. Netherlands

    #162 of 366

    497 births on an average April 25

    CBS, 1995–⁠2025
  15. Germany

    #177 of 366

    2,016 births on an average April 25

    Destatis, 2014–⁠2025
  16. Costa Rica

    #189 of 366

    167 births on an average April 25

    INEC Costa Rica, 2014–⁠2024
  17. Guatemala

    #221 of 366

    938 births on an average April 25

    INE Guatemala, 2018–⁠2024
  18. Philippines

    #223 of 366

    4,380 births on an average April 25

    PSA, 2006–⁠2024
  19. England & Wales

    #230 of 366

    1,767 births on an average April 25

    ONS, 1995–⁠2025
  20. Chile

    #260 of 366

    680 births on an average April 25

    DEIS, 1990–⁠2017
  21. Malaysia

    #267 of 366

    1,373 births on an average April 25

    DOSM, 2000–⁠2022
  22. Mexico

    #282 of 366

    4,826 births on an average April 25

    INEGI, 2017–⁠2023
  23. France

    #306 of 366

    2,084 births on an average April 25

    INSEE, 1998–⁠2024
  24. Denmark

    #320 of 366

    155 births on an average April 25

    Statistics Denmark, 2007–⁠2025
  25. Portugal

    #355 of 366

    276 births on an average April 25

    INE Portugal, 1980–⁠2025
  26. New Zealand

    #362 of 366

    142 births on an average April 25

    Stats NZ, 1980–⁠2023
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April against the other eleven

April 25 is the 6th 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 25#250 of 36610,652 births a year

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Questions

Quick answers

How many babies are born on April 25?

About 10,652 a year in the United States. It was at its most common in 1990, when 12,600 babies were born and it ranked #71 of 365; at its rarest in 1976, with 6,817 births at #365.

Is April 25 a common birthday?

In the United States, April 25 is the 117th rarest of 366 dates, with about 10,652 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. 93 other dates are within 1% of April 25's count, spread from #203 to #296, 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 25 rarer in other countries?

In some. It is rarer in 7 of the 26 other countries we hold daily records for. It is at its rarest in New Zealand, at #362 of 366, and at its most common in Brazil, at #4.

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