Is August 7 a rare birthday? Popular
More common than 82% of all 366 dates.
August 7 in numbers
The odds, the star sign and the other dates that come with it.
Where August 7 ranks
From most common birthday to rarest, August 7 ranks in position #66, with 11,338 births a year. 300 other dates are rarer. 54 dates are within 1% of its count, anywhere from #38 to #92, so the exact position is a close thing.
August 7 through the years
Where it ranked in the United States, year by year.
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August 7 in other countries
August 7 is the 66th most common birthday in the United States. It is among the 50 most common in 3 of the 26 other countries, and ranges from #21 in Japan to #279 in Ireland.
Japan
#21 of 366
2,988 births on an average August 7
e-Stat, 1996–2025Belgium
#37 of 366
341 births on an average August 7
Statbel, 1992–2025Netherlands
#44 of 366
525 births on an average August 7
CBS, 1995–2025Hungary
#51 of 366
343 births on an average August 7
KSH, 1970–2020Germany
#57 of 366
2,190 births on an average August 7
Destatis, 2014–2025New Zealand
#57 of 366
162 births on an average August 7
Stats NZ, 1980–2023Denmark
#70 of 366
174 births on an average August 7
Statistics Denmark, 2007–2025France
#72 of 366
2,212 births on an average August 7
INSEE, 1998–2024Norway
#76 of 366
165 births on an average August 7
SSB, 2011–2025Mexico
#77 of 366
5,336 births on an average August 7
INEGI, 2017–2023Ecuador
#84 of 366
788 births on an average August 7
INEC, 2013–2023Finland
#87 of 366
147 births on an average August 7
Statistics Finland, 2010–2025Latvia
#93 of 366
56 births on an average August 7
CSB, 1996–2025England & Wales
#99 of 366
1,814 births on an average August 7
ONS, 1995–2025Slovenia
#105 of 366
55 births on an average August 7
SURS, 2000–2025Costa Rica
#115 of 366
172 births on an average August 7
INEC Costa Rica, 2014–2024Guatemala
#151 of 366
954 births on an average August 7
INE Guatemala, 2018–2024Portugal
#178 of 366
298 births on an average August 7
INE Portugal, 1980–2025Switzerland
#208 of 366
222 births on an average August 7
FSO, 1969–2025Philippines
#216 of 366
4,389 births on an average August 7
PSA, 2006–2024Chile
#230 of 366
683 births on an average August 7
DEIS, 1990–2017Argentina
#231 of 366
1,469 births on an average August 7
DEIS, 2018–2023Brazil
#237 of 366
7,818 births on an average August 7
DATASUS, 1997–2024Peru
#256 of 366
1,166 births on an average August 7
INEI, 2019–2025Malaysia
#265 of 366
1,373 births on an average August 7
DOSM, 2000–2022Ireland
#279 of 366
164 births on an average August 7
CSO, 1980–2023
Famous people born on August 7
Ranked by how often people looked them up on Wikipedia last year.
Charlize TheronSouth African-American actress · born 1975
Jalen HurtsAmerican football player · born 1998
Abigail SpanbergerGovernor of Virginia since 2026 · born 1979
Michael ShannonAmerican actor · born 1974
Sidney CrosbyCanadian ice hockey player · born 1987
David DuchovnyAmerican actor · born 1960
Mata HariDutch exotic dancer · born 1876
Lee CorsoAmerican college football coach and analyst · born 1935August against the other eleven
August 7 is the 10th rarest 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.
Quick answers
How many babies are born on August 7?
About 11,338 a year in the United States. It was at its most common in 1984, when 11,884 babies were born and it ranked #6 of 366; at its rarest in 2005, with 7,563 births at #325.
Is August 7 a common birthday?
In the United States, August 7 is the 66th most common of 366 dates, with about 11,338 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. 54 other dates are within 1% of August 7's count, spread from #38 to #92, 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 7 rarer in other countries?
In some. It is rarer in 20 of the 26 other countries we hold daily records for. It is at its rarest in Ireland, at #279 of 366, and at its most common in Japan, at #21.
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