Is April 30 a rare birthday? Rare

Rarer than 91% of all 366 dates.

April 30 #332
Most commonSeptember 9RarestDecember 25
Cartoon birthday scene for April 30: a child behind a cake whose candles spell the date
At a glance

April 30 in numbers

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

Born each year≈ 10,401in the United States — about 893,000 of them are alive today
In a full stadium131 peopleof 50,000 were born on April 30
On the day itselfEvery 8 secondsa baby is born on April 30 somewhere in the United States
Star signTaurusrarer than 28 of the 31 Taurus birthdays
Half-birthdayOctober 30six months later, to the day
Conceived aroundAugust 7A summer night, then.
Birth frequency by rank

Where April 30 ranks

From most common birthday to rarest, April 30 ranks in position #332, with 10,401 births a year. 331 other dates are more common. 39 dates are within 1% of its count, anywhere from #309 to #348, so the exact position is a close thing.

56 years of records

April 30 through the years

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

Fell on a weekdayOn a weekend
rarestmost
common
1969, Wednesday: rank #294 of 365, 9,138 births1970, Thursday: rank #271 of 365, 9,684 births1971, Friday: rank #214 of 365, 9,752 births1972, Sunday: rank #365 of 366, 7,212 births1973, Monday: rank #234 of 365, 8,514 births1974, Tuesday: rank #198 of 365, 8,677 births1975, Wednesday: rank #211 of 365, 8,661 births1976, Friday: rank #254 of 366, 8,372 births1977, Saturday: rank #331 of 365, 7,866 births1978, Sunday: rank #365 of 365, 7,152 births1979, Monday: rank #232 of 365, 9,518 births1980, Wednesday: rank #229 of 366, 9,832 births1981, Thursday: rank #250 of 365, 9,675 births1982, Friday: rank #170 of 365, 10,396 births1983, Saturday: rank #333 of 365, 8,479 births1984, Monday: rank #208 of 366, 10,097 births1985, Tuesday: rank #124 of 365, 10,894 births1986, Wednesday: rank #128 of 365, 10,881 births1987, Thursday: rank #181 of 365, 10,900 births1988, Saturday: rank #313 of 366, 8,904 births1989, Sunday: rank #356 of 365, 8,621 births1990, Monday: rank #241 of 365, 11,379 births1991, Tuesday: rank #82 of 365, 12,404 births1992, Thursday: rank #171 of 366, 11,793 births1993, Friday: rank #161 of 365, 11,737 births1994, Saturday: rank #308 of 365, 8,621 births1995, Sunday: rank #352 of 365, 7,777 births1996, Tuesday: rank #176 of 366, 11,391 births1997, Wednesday: rank #190 of 365, 11,346 births1998, Thursday: rank #160 of 365, 11,750 births1999, Friday: rank #216 of 365, 11,417 births2000, Sunday: rank #360 of 366, 7,515 births2001, Monday: rank #240 of 365, 11,190 births2002, Tuesday: rank #111 of 365, 12,381 births2003, Wednesday: rank #198 of 365, 12,064 births2004, Friday: rank #199 of 366, 12,193 births2005, Saturday: rank #301 of 365, 8,167 births2006, Sunday: rank #361 of 365, 7,056 births2007, Monday: rank #246 of 365, 12,005 births2008, Wednesday: rank #161 of 366, 13,003 births2009, Thursday: rank #211 of 365, 12,252 births2010, Friday: rank #237 of 365, 11,700 births2011, Saturday: rank #304 of 365, 7,619 births2012, Monday: rank #236 of 366, 11,266 births2013, Tuesday: rank #194 of 365, 11,704 births2014, Wednesday: rank #233 of 365, 11,543 births2015, Thursday: rank #194 of 365, 11,831 births2016, Saturday: rank #286 of 366, 8,158 births2017, Sunday: rank #360 of 365, 6,751 births2018, Monday: rank #248 of 365, 10,496 births2019, Tuesday: rank #196 of 365, 11,093 births2020, Thursday: rank #137 of 366, 11,006 births2021, Friday: rank #201 of 365, 10,652 births2022, Saturday: rank #312 of 365, 7,415 births2023, Sunday: rank #360 of 365, 6,401 births2024, Tuesday: rank #179 of 366, 10,754 births1970198019902000201020202024

On a weekend it slips to #335, from #200 on a working day

Inductions and planned caesareans are booked on working days, so 29% fewer babies arrive and the date falls down the ranking. Each bar is the average rank of the years it landed on that day.

#236
Mon
#158
Tue
#206
Wed
#197
Thu
#207
Fri
#311
Sat
#360
Sun
Most common year
1991#82 of 365Tuesday · 12,404 births
Rarest year
1972#365 of 366Sunday · 7,212 births
Weekend years
16 of 5629% of the record2023 was the most recent
Around the world

April 30 in other countries

April 30 is the 35th rarest birthday in the United States. It is among the 50 rarest in 2 of the 26 other countries, and ranges from #36 in Ireland to #355 in the Netherlands.

  1. Ireland

    #36 of 366

    174 births on an average April 30

    CSO, 1980–⁠2023
  2. Brazil

    #48 of 366

    8,562 births on an average April 30

    DATASUS, 1997–⁠2024
  3. Norway

    #57 of 366

    167 births on an average April 30

    SSB, 2011–⁠2025
  4. Switzerland

    #58 of 366

    230 births on an average April 30

    FSO, 1969–⁠2025
  5. Peru

    #61 of 366

    1,254 births on an average April 30

    INEI, 2019–⁠2025
  6. Portugal

    #78 of 366

    304 births on an average April 30

    INE Portugal, 1980–⁠2025
  7. Slovenia

    #102 of 366

    55 births on an average April 30

    SURS, 2000–⁠2025
  8. Belgium

    #116 of 366

    332 births on an average April 30

    Statbel, 1992–⁠2025
  9. Latvia

    #138 of 366

    55 births on an average April 30

    CSB, 1996–⁠2025
  10. France

    #160 of 366

    2,160 births on an average April 30

    INSEE, 1998–⁠2024
  11. Germany

    #162 of 366

    2,029 births on an average April 30

    Destatis, 2014–⁠2025
  12. Chile

    #165 of 366

    691 births on an average April 30

    DEIS, 1990–⁠2017
  13. Ecuador

    #172 of 366

    766 births on an average April 30

    INEC, 2013–⁠2023
  14. Argentina

    #174 of 366

    1,520 births on an average April 30

    DEIS, 2018–⁠2023
  15. Finland

    #188 of 366

    141 births on an average April 30

    Statistics Finland, 2010–⁠2025
  16. England & Wales

    #190 of 366

    1,781 births on an average April 30

    ONS, 1995–⁠2025
  17. Costa Rica

    #206 of 366

    166 births on an average April 30

    INEC Costa Rica, 2014–⁠2024
  18. Denmark

    #217 of 366

    163 births on an average April 30

    Statistics Denmark, 2007–⁠2025
  19. Japan

    #218 of 366

    2,759 births on an average April 30

    e-Stat, 1996–⁠2025
  20. Malaysia

    #229 of 366

    1,384 births on an average April 30

    DOSM, 2000–⁠2022
  21. Hungary

    #235 of 366

    323 births on an average April 30

    KSH, 1970–⁠2020
  22. Philippines

    #241 of 366

    4,342 births on an average April 30

    PSA, 2006–⁠2024
  23. Guatemala

    #242 of 366

    931 births on an average April 30

    INE Guatemala, 2018–⁠2024
  24. New Zealand

    #300 of 366

    154 births on an average April 30

    Stats NZ, 1980–⁠2023
  25. Mexico

    #327 of 366

    4,690 births on an average April 30

    INEGI, 2017–⁠2023
  26. Netherlands

    #355 of 366

    460 births on an average April 30

    CBS, 1995–⁠2025
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April against the other eleven

April 30 is the 4th 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 30#332 of 36610,401 births a year

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Questions

Quick answers

How many babies are born on April 30?

About 10,401 a year in the United States. It was at its most common in 1991, when 12,404 babies were born and it ranked #82 of 365; at its rarest in 1972, with 7,212 births at #365.

Is April 30 a common birthday?

In the United States, April 30 is the 35th rarest of 366 dates, with about 10,401 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. 39 other dates are within 1% of April 30's count, spread from #309 to #348, 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 30 rarer in other countries?

In some. It is rarer in 1 of the 26 other countries we hold daily records for. It is at its rarest in the Netherlands, at #355 of 366, and at its most common in Ireland, at #36.

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