Is April 3 a rare birthday? Ordinary
Rarer than 69% of all 366 dates.
April 3 in numbers
The odds, the star sign and the other dates that come with it.
Where April 3 ranks
From most common birthday to rarest, April 3 ranks in position #253, with 10,640 births a year. 252 other dates are more common. 94 dates are within 1% of its count, anywhere from #207 to #301, so the exact position is a close thing.
April 3 through the years
Where it ranked in the United States, year by year.
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April 3 in other countries
April 3 is the 114th rarest birthday in the United States. It is among the 50 rarest in 5 of the 26 other countries, and ranges from #14 in Argentina to #349 in Costa Rica.
Argentina
#14 of 366
1,754 births on an average April 3
DEIS, 2018–2023Japan
#35 of 366
2,938 births on an average April 3
e-Stat, 1996–2025Latvia
#45 of 366
57 births on an average April 3
CSB, 1996–2025Brazil
#67 of 366
8,501 births on an average April 3
DATASUS, 1997–2024Switzerland
#144 of 366
225 births on an average April 3
FSO, 1969–2025Peru
#146 of 366
1,214 births on an average April 3
INEI, 2019–2025Guatemala
#165 of 366
950 births on an average April 3
INE Guatemala, 2018–2024Norway
#174 of 366
157 births on an average April 3
SSB, 2011–2025Belgium
#176 of 366
327 births on an average April 3
Statbel, 1992–2025Hungary
#200 of 366
326 births on an average April 3
KSH, 1970–2020Ecuador
#204 of 366
760 births on an average April 3
INEC, 2013–2023Netherlands
#228 of 366
492 births on an average April 3
CBS, 1995–2025Ireland
#248 of 366
165 births on an average April 3
CSO, 1980–2023Finland
#261 of 366
137 births on an average April 3
Statistics Finland, 2010–2025England & Wales
#265 of 366
1,757 births on an average April 3
ONS, 1995–2025Malaysia
#278 of 366
1,370 births on an average April 3
DOSM, 2000–2022Mexico
#285 of 366
4,821 births on an average April 3
INEGI, 2017–2023New Zealand
#295 of 366
154 births on an average April 3
Stats NZ, 1980–2023Portugal
#297 of 366
287 births on an average April 3
INE Portugal, 1980–2025Slovenia
#301 of 366
50 births on an average April 3
SURS, 2000–2025Philippines
#313 of 366
4,181 births on an average April 3
PSA, 2006–2024Germany
#326 of 366
1,915 births on an average April 3
Destatis, 2014–2025Chile
#333 of 366
663 births on an average April 3
DEIS, 1990–2017France
#333 of 366
2,058 births on an average April 3
INSEE, 1998–2024Denmark
#342 of 366
153 births on an average April 3
Statistics Denmark, 2007–2025Costa Rica
#349 of 366
156 births on an average April 3
INEC Costa Rica, 2014–2024
Famous people born on April 3
Ranked by how often people looked them up on Wikipedia last year.
Jane GoodallEnglish zoologist · born 1934
Alec BaldwinAmerican actor · born 1958
Marlon BrandoAmerican actor · born 1924
Eddie MurphyAmerican comedian, actor, and singer · born 1961
Matthew GoodeEnglish actor · born 1978
Amanda BynesAmerican former actress · born 1986
Nigel FarageBritish politician and broadcaster · born 1964
Paris JacksonAmerican model, actress and singer · born 1998April against the other eleven
April 3 is the 7th 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 3?
About 10,640 a year in the United States. It was at its most common in 2001, when 12,578 babies were born and it ranked #80 of 365; at its rarest in 1988, with 8,128 births at #364.
Is April 3 a common birthday?
In the United States, April 3 is the 114th rarest of 366 dates, with about 10,640 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. 94 other dates are within 1% of April 3's count, spread from #207 to #301, 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 3 rarer in other countries?
In some. It is rarer in 13 of the 26 other countries we hold daily records for. It is at its rarest in Costa Rica, at #349 of 366, and at its most common in Argentina, at #14.
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