Is August 10 a rare birthday? Popular

More common than 91% of all 366 dates.

August 10 #34
Most commonSeptember 9RarestDecember 25
Cartoon birthday scene for August 10: a child behind a cake whose candles spell the date
At a glance

August 10 in numbers

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

Born each year≈ 11,487in the United States — about 985,000 of them are alive today
In a full stadium145 peopleof 50,000 were born on August 10
On the day itselfEvery 8 secondsa baby is born on August 10 somewhere in the United States
Star signLeomore common than 25 of the 31 Leo birthdays
Half-birthdayFebruary 10six months later, to the day
Conceived aroundNovember 17A cosy autumn night, then.
Birth frequency by rank

Where August 10 ranks

From most common birthday to rarest, August 10 ranks in position #34, with 11,487 births a year. 332 other dates are rarer. 43 dates are within 1% of its count, anywhere from #16 to #59, so the exact position is a close thing.

56 years of records

August 10 through the years

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

Fell on a weekdayOn a weekend
rarestmost
common
1969, Sunday: rank #297 of 365, 9,106 births1970, Monday: rank #94 of 365, 10,846 births1971, Tuesday: rank #2 of 365, 11,164 births1972, Thursday: rank #101 of 366, 9,386 births1973, Friday: rank #5 of 365, 9,829 births1974, Saturday: rank #253 of 365, 8,431 births1975, Sunday: rank #309 of 365, 7,686 births1976, Tuesday: rank #22 of 366, 9,832 births1977, Wednesday: rank #21 of 365, 10,212 births1978, Thursday: rank #29 of 365, 10,307 births1979, Friday: rank #21 of 365, 10,834 births1980, Sunday: rank #276 of 366, 9,145 births1981, Monday: rank #51 of 365, 11,052 births1982, Tuesday: rank #26 of 365, 11,383 births1983, Wednesday: rank #35 of 365, 11,022 births1984, Friday: rank #41 of 366, 11,364 births1985, Saturday: rank #268 of 365, 9,321 births1986, Sunday: rank #288 of 365, 8,924 births1987, Monday: rank #63 of 365, 11,476 births1988, Wednesday: rank #51 of 366, 12,015 births1989, Thursday: rank #52 of 365, 12,459 births1990, Friday: rank #21 of 365, 13,097 births1991, Saturday: rank #264 of 365, 9,986 births1992, Monday: rank #155 of 366, 11,880 births1993, Tuesday: rank #47 of 365, 12,412 births1994, Wednesday: rank #25 of 365, 12,525 births1995, Thursday: rank #55 of 365, 12,243 births1996, Saturday: rank #262 of 366, 9,175 births1997, Sunday: rank #315 of 365, 8,174 births1998, Monday: rank #183 of 365, 11,622 births1999, Tuesday: rank #15 of 365, 13,035 births2000, Thursday: rank #71 of 366, 12,694 births2001, Friday: rank #53 of 365, 12,833 births2002, Saturday: rank #266 of 365, 8,929 births2003, Sunday: rank #318 of 365, 7,852 births2004, Tuesday: rank #31 of 366, 13,281 births2005, Wednesday: rank #60 of 365, 13,320 births2006, Thursday: rank #38 of 365, 14,115 births2007, Friday: rank #83 of 365, 13,672 births2008, Sunday: rank #317 of 366, 7,867 births2009, Monday: rank #174 of 365, 12,573 births2010, Tuesday: rank #17 of 365, 13,291 births2011, Wednesday: rank #45 of 365, 12,948 births2012, Friday: rank #55 of 366, 12,748 births2013, Saturday: rank #263 of 365, 8,721 births2014, Sunday: rank #312 of 365, 7,805 births2015, Monday: rank #96 of 365, 12,333 births2016, Wednesday: rank #16 of 366, 12,984 births2017, Thursday: rank #19 of 365, 12,757 births2018, Friday: rank #46 of 365, 12,152 births2019, Saturday: rank #262 of 365, 8,604 births2020, Monday: rank #86 of 366, 11,229 births2021, Tuesday: rank #35 of 365, 11,922 births2022, Wednesday: rank #17 of 365, 12,101 births2023, Thursday: rank #12 of 365, 11,765 births2024, Saturday: rank #262 of 366, 8,419 births1970198019902000201020202024

On a weekend it slips to #283, from #52 on a working day

Inductions and planned caesareans are booked on working days, so 27.9% fewer babies arrive and the date falls down the ranking. Each bar is the average rank of the years it landed on that day.

#113
Mon
#24
Tue
#34
Wed
#47
Thu
#41
Fri
#263
Sat
#304
Sun
Most common year
1971#2 of 365Tuesday · 11,164 births
Rarest year
2003#318 of 365Sunday · 7,852 births
Weekend years
16 of 5629% of the record2024 was the most recent
Around the world

August 10 in other countries

August 10 is the 34th most common birthday in the United States. It is among the 50 most common in 7 of the 26 other countries, and ranges from #31 in Finland and Mexico to #230 in Peru.

  1. Finland

    #31 of 366

    149 births on an average August 10

    Statistics Finland, 2010–⁠2025
  2. Mexico

    #31 of 366

    5,600 births on an average August 10

    INEGI, 2017–⁠2023
  3. Belgium

    #36 of 366

    341 births on an average August 10

    Statbel, 1992–⁠2025
  4. France

    #40 of 366

    2,239 births on an average August 10

    INSEE, 1998–⁠2024
  5. Denmark

    #41 of 366

    177 births on an average August 10

    Statistics Denmark, 2007–⁠2025
  6. Portugal

    #41 of 366

    310 births on an average August 10

    INE Portugal, 1980–⁠2025
  7. Guatemala

    #50 of 366

    997 births on an average August 10

    INE Guatemala, 2018–⁠2024
  8. Japan

    #51 of 366

    2,922 births on an average August 10

    e-Stat, 1996–⁠2025
  9. Germany

    #69 of 366

    2,177 births on an average August 10

    Destatis, 2014–⁠2025
  10. Slovenia

    #69 of 366

    56 births on an average August 10

    SURS, 2000–⁠2025
  11. Hungary

    #73 of 366

    339 births on an average August 10

    KSH, 1970–⁠2020
  12. Norway

    #88 of 366

    164 births on an average August 10

    SSB, 2011–⁠2025
  13. England & Wales

    #97 of 366

    1,815 births on an average August 10

    ONS, 1995–⁠2025
  14. Netherlands

    #105 of 366

    514 births on an average August 10

    CBS, 1995–⁠2025
  15. Ireland

    #110 of 366

    170 births on an average August 10

    CSO, 1980–⁠2023
  16. Ecuador

    #125 of 366

    777 births on an average August 10

    INEC, 2013–⁠2023
  17. Argentina

    #131 of 366

    1,569 births on an average August 10

    DEIS, 2018–⁠2023
  18. Costa Rica

    #136 of 366

    171 births on an average August 10

    INEC Costa Rica, 2014–⁠2024
  19. Philippines

    #147 of 366

    4,534 births on an average August 10

    PSA, 2006–⁠2024
  20. Malaysia

    #156 of 366

    1,403 births on an average August 10

    DOSM, 2000–⁠2022
  21. Latvia

    #161 of 366

    55 births on an average August 10

    CSB, 1996–⁠2025
  22. New Zealand

    #161 of 366

    158 births on an average August 10

    Stats NZ, 1980–⁠2023
  23. Switzerland

    #189 of 366

    223 births on an average August 10

    FSO, 1969–⁠2025
  24. Brazil

    #201 of 366

    7,934 births on an average August 10

    DATASUS, 1997–⁠2024
  25. Chile

    #224 of 366

    685 births on an average August 10

    DEIS, 1990–⁠2017
  26. Peru

    #230 of 366

    1,182 births on an average August 10

    INEI, 2019–⁠2025
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August against the other eleven

August 10 is the 9th most common of the 31 days in August. All August birthdays.

August is the 2nd most common month of the year

An average August day sees 11,405 births in the United States. September is the busiest month, January the quietest.

August 10 is the 6th most common of the 15 days around it

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

August 10#34 of 36611,487 births a year

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Questions

Quick answers

How many babies are born on August 10?

About 11,487 a year in the United States. It was at its most common in 1971, when 11,164 babies were born and it ranked #2 of 365; at its rarest in 2003, with 7,852 births at #318.

Is August 10 a common birthday?

In the United States, August 10 is the 34th most common of 366 dates, with about 11,487 births a year. That puts it among the more common birthdays.

What is the rarest August birthday?

In the United States, August 13: the 103rd most common of all 366 dates, with about 11,121 births a year. The most common August birthday is August 16, the 16th most common of the year.

How precise is the ranking?

In the middle of the calendar it is not exact. 43 other dates are within 1% of August 10's count, spread from #16 to #59, 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 August 10 rarer in other countries?

In some. It is rarer in 24 of the 26 other countries we hold daily records for. It is at its rarest in Peru, at #230 of 366, and at its most common in Finland and Mexico, at #31.

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