Is April 7 a rare birthday? Uncommon

Rarer than 79% of all 366 dates.

April 7 #291
Most commonSeptember 9RarestDecember 25
Cartoon birthday scene for April 7: a child behind a cake whose candles spell the date
At a glance

April 7 in numbers

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

Born each year≈ 10,552in the United States — about 906,000 of them are alive today
In a full stadium133 peopleof 50,000 were born on April 7
On the day itselfEvery 8 secondsa baby is born on April 7 somewhere in the United States
Star signAriesrarer than 20 of the 30 Aries birthdays
Half-birthdayOctober 7six months later, to the day
Conceived aroundJuly 15A summer night, then.
Birth frequency by rank

Where April 7 ranks

From most common birthday to rarest, April 7 ranks in position #291, with 10,552 births a year. 290 other dates are more common. 83 dates are within 1% of its count, anywhere from #246 to #329, so the exact position is a close thing.

56 years of records

April 7 through the years

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

Fell on a weekdayOn a weekend
rarestmost
common
1969, Monday: rank #269 of 365, 9,374 births1970, Tuesday: rank #154 of 365, 10,474 births1971, Wednesday: rank #217 of 365, 9,746 births1972, Friday: rank #208 of 366, 8,970 births1973, Saturday: rank #278 of 365, 8,060 births1974, Sunday: rank #357 of 365, 7,051 births1975, Monday: rank #247 of 365, 8,501 births1976, Wednesday: rank #221 of 366, 8,568 births1977, Thursday: rank #228 of 365, 9,148 births1978, Friday: rank #220 of 365, 9,087 births1979, Saturday: rank #349 of 365, 8,130 births1980, Monday: rank #225 of 366, 9,863 births1981, Tuesday: rank #127 of 365, 10,356 births1982, Wednesday: rank #245 of 365, 9,974 births1983, Thursday: rank #93 of 365, 10,659 births1984, Saturday: rank #308 of 366, 8,567 births1985, Sunday: rank #363 of 365, 8,136 births1986, Monday: rank #161 of 365, 10,720 births1987, Tuesday: rank #99 of 365, 11,324 births1988, Thursday: rank #216 of 366, 10,886 births1989, Friday: rank #152 of 365, 11,633 births1990, Saturday: rank #291 of 365, 9,679 births1991, Sunday: rank #353 of 365, 8,695 births1992, Tuesday: rank #62 of 366, 12,338 births1993, Wednesday: rank #98 of 365, 12,001 births1994, Thursday: rank #143 of 365, 11,718 births1995, Friday: rank #140 of 365, 11,587 births1996, Sunday: rank #365 of 366, 7,372 births1997, Monday: rank #236 of 365, 10,726 births1998, Tuesday: rank #79 of 365, 12,255 births1999, Wednesday: rank #126 of 365, 11,941 births2000, Friday: rank #182 of 366, 12,004 births2001, Saturday: rank #287 of 365, 8,626 births2002, Sunday: rank #364 of 365, 7,008 births2003, Monday: rank #237 of 365, 11,554 births2004, Wednesday: rank #123 of 366, 12,705 births2005, Thursday: rank #138 of 365, 12,770 births2006, Friday: rank #198 of 365, 12,706 births2007, Saturday: rank #311 of 365, 8,175 births2008, Monday: rank #243 of 366, 12,140 births2009, Tuesday: rank #53 of 365, 13,374 births2010, Wednesday: rank #198 of 365, 12,061 births2011, Thursday: rank #139 of 365, 12,185 births2012, Saturday: rank #328 of 366, 7,331 births2013, Sunday: rank #359 of 365, 6,742 births2014, Monday: rank #243 of 365, 11,405 births2015, Tuesday: rank #95 of 365, 12,334 births2016, Thursday: rank #212 of 366, 11,603 births2017, Friday: rank #199 of 365, 11,388 births2018, Saturday: rank #305 of 365, 7,714 births2019, Sunday: rank #356 of 365, 6,683 births2020, Tuesday: rank #167 of 366, 10,853 births2021, Wednesday: rank #153 of 365, 11,025 births2022, Thursday: rank #116 of 365, 11,223 births2023, Friday: rank #245 of 365, 9,991 births2024, Sunday: rank #364 of 366, 6,345 births1970198019902000201020202024

On a weekend it slips to #334, from #173 on a working day

Inductions and planned caesareans are booked on working days, so 29.9% fewer babies arrive and the date falls down the ranking. Each bar is the average rank of the years it landed on that day.

#233
Mon
#105
Tue
#173
Wed
#161
Thu
#193
Fri
#307
Sat
#360
Sun
Most common year
2009#53 of 365Tuesday · 13,374 births
Rarest year
1996#365 of 366Sunday · 7,372 births
Weekend years
16 of 5629% of the record2024 was the most recent
Around the world

April 7 in other countries

April 7 is the 76th rarest birthday in the United States. It is among the 50 rarest in 1 of the 26 other countries, and ranges from #51 in Brazil to #354 in Guatemala.

  1. Brazil

    #51 of 366

    8,557 births on an average April 7

    DATASUS, 1997–⁠2024
  2. Latvia

    #85 of 366

    56 births on an average April 7

    CSB, 1996–⁠2025
  3. Chile

    #129 of 366

    695 births on an average April 7

    DEIS, 1990–⁠2017
  4. Ecuador

    #134 of 366

    775 births on an average April 7

    INEC, 2013–⁠2023
  5. New Zealand

    #148 of 366

    158 births on an average April 7

    Stats NZ, 1980–⁠2023
  6. Norway

    #154 of 366

    159 births on an average April 7

    SSB, 2011–⁠2025
  7. Costa Rica

    #167 of 366

    168 births on an average April 7

    INEC Costa Rica, 2014–⁠2024
  8. Belgium

    #170 of 366

    328 births on an average April 7

    Statbel, 1992–⁠2025
  9. Switzerland

    #190 of 366

    223 births on an average April 7

    FSO, 1969–⁠2025
  10. Ireland

    #192 of 366

    167 births on an average April 7

    CSO, 1980–⁠2023
  11. Peru

    #194 of 366

    1,198 births on an average April 7

    INEI, 2019–⁠2025
  12. Argentina

    #200 of 366

    1,492 births on an average April 7

    DEIS, 2018–⁠2023
  13. Portugal

    #248 of 366

    292 births on an average April 7

    INE Portugal, 1980–⁠2025
  14. England & Wales

    #256 of 366

    1,759 births on an average April 7

    ONS, 1995–⁠2025
  15. Hungary

    #261 of 366

    320 births on an average April 7

    KSH, 1970–⁠2020
  16. Japan

    #261 of 366

    2,725 births on an average April 7

    e-Stat, 1996–⁠2025
  17. Slovenia

    #278 of 366

    51 births on an average April 7

    SURS, 2000–⁠2025
  18. France

    #284 of 366

    2,096 births on an average April 7

    INSEE, 1998–⁠2024
  19. Malaysia

    #289 of 366

    1,366 births on an average April 7

    DOSM, 2000–⁠2022
  20. Denmark

    #295 of 366

    158 births on an average April 7

    Statistics Denmark, 2007–⁠2025
  21. Germany

    #296 of 366

    1,933 births on an average April 7

    Destatis, 2014–⁠2025
  22. Netherlands

    #297 of 366

    484 births on an average April 7

    CBS, 1995–⁠2025
  23. Mexico

    #304 of 366

    4,747 births on an average April 7

    INEGI, 2017–⁠2023
  24. Finland

    #308 of 366

    135 births on an average April 7

    Statistics Finland, 2010–⁠2025
  25. Philippines

    #308 of 366

    4,201 births on an average April 7

    PSA, 2006–⁠2024
  26. Guatemala

    #354 of 366

    858 births on an average April 7

    INE Guatemala, 2018–⁠2024
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April against the other eleven

April 7 is the 14th 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 7#291 of 36610,552 births a year

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Questions

Quick answers

How many babies are born on April 7?

About 10,552 a year in the United States. It was at its most common in 2009, when 13,374 babies were born and it ranked #53 of 365; at its rarest in 1996, with 7,372 births at #365.

Is April 7 a common birthday?

In the United States, April 7 is the 76th rarest of 366 dates, with about 10,552 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. 83 other dates are within 1% of April 7's count, spread from #246 to #329, 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 7 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 Guatemala, at #354 of 366, and at its most common in Brazil, at #51.

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