Is December 10 a rare birthday? Uncommon

Rarer than 77% of all 366 dates.

December 10 #283
Most commonSeptember 9RarestDecember 25
Cartoon birthday scene for December 10: a child behind a cake whose candles spell the date
At a glance

December 10 in numbers

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

Born each year≈ 10,576in the United States — about 912,000 of them are alive today
In a full stadium133 peopleof 50,000 were born on December 10
On the day itselfEvery 8 secondsa baby is born on December 10 somewhere in the United States
Star signSagittariusrarer than 19 of the 30 Sagittarius birthdays
Half-birthdayJune 10six months later, to the day
Conceived aroundMarch 19Right around St Patrick's Day.
Birth frequency by rank

Where December 10 ranks

From most common birthday to rarest, December 10 ranks in position #283, with 10,576 births a year. 282 other dates are more common. 85 dates are within 1% of its count, anywhere from #238 to #323, so the exact position is a close thing.

56 years of records

December 10 through the years

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

Fell on a weekdayOn a weekend
rarestmost
common
1969, Wednesday: rank #106 of 365, 10,348 births1970, Thursday: rank #103 of 365, 10,756 births1971, Friday: rank #185 of 365, 9,878 births1972, Sunday: rank #325 of 366, 7,882 births1973, Monday: rank #151 of 365, 8,892 births1974, Tuesday: rank #96 of 365, 9,212 births1975, Wednesday: rank #137 of 365, 8,958 births1976, Friday: rank #111 of 366, 9,159 births1977, Saturday: rank #321 of 365, 7,964 births1978, Sunday: rank #307 of 365, 8,104 births1979, Monday: rank #125 of 365, 9,932 births1980, Wednesday: rank #153 of 366, 10,120 births1981, Thursday: rank #229 of 365, 9,935 births1982, Friday: rank #241 of 365, 10,016 births1983, Saturday: rank #342 of 365, 8,396 births1984, Monday: rank #124 of 366, 10,506 births1985, Tuesday: rank #111 of 365, 10,974 births1986, Wednesday: rank #191 of 365, 10,619 births1987, Thursday: rank #175 of 365, 10,937 births1988, Saturday: rank #319 of 366, 8,825 births1989, Sunday: rank #335 of 365, 8,874 births1990, Monday: rank #229 of 365, 11,483 births1991, Tuesday: rank #99 of 365, 12,260 births1992, Thursday: rank #196 of 366, 11,660 births1993, Friday: rank #210 of 365, 11,470 births1994, Saturday: rank #318 of 365, 8,461 births1995, Sunday: rank #360 of 365, 7,595 births1996, Tuesday: rank #84 of 366, 11,900 births1997, Wednesday: rank #155 of 365, 11,555 births1998, Thursday: rank #173 of 365, 11,685 births1999, Friday: rank #215 of 365, 11,459 births2000, Sunday: rank #339 of 366, 7,807 births2001, Monday: rank #232 of 365, 11,345 births2002, Tuesday: rank #83 of 365, 12,544 births2003, Wednesday: rank #138 of 365, 12,470 births2004, Friday: rank #168 of 366, 12,454 births2005, Saturday: rank #293 of 365, 8,273 births2006, Sunday: rank #346 of 365, 7,405 births2007, Monday: rank #224 of 365, 12,540 births2008, Wednesday: rank #183 of 366, 12,884 births2009, Thursday: rank #221 of 365, 12,121 births2010, Friday: rank #174 of 365, 12,190 births2011, Saturday: rank #307 of 365, 7,570 births2012, Monday: rank #229 of 366, 11,360 births2013, Tuesday: rank #73 of 365, 12,472 births2014, Wednesday: rank #127 of 365, 12,197 births2015, Thursday: rank #122 of 365, 12,259 births2016, Saturday: rank #299 of 366, 7,990 births2017, Sunday: rank #353 of 365, 6,888 births2018, Monday: rank #242 of 365, 10,772 births2019, Tuesday: rank #115 of 365, 11,505 births2020, Thursday: rank #227 of 366, 10,485 births2021, Friday: rank #162 of 365, 10,965 births2022, Saturday: rank #275 of 365, 8,105 births2023, Sunday: rank #349 of 365, 6,574 births2024, Tuesday: rank #96 of 366, 11,142 births1970198019902000201020202024

On a weekend it slips to #324, from #160 on a working day

Inductions and planned caesareans are booked on working days, so 28.9% fewer babies arrive and the date falls down the ranking. Each bar is the average rank of the years it landed on that day.

#195
Mon
#95
Tue
#149
Wed
#181
Thu
#183
Fri
#309
Sat
#339
Sun
Most common year
2013#73 of 365Tuesday · 12,472 births
Rarest year
1995#360 of 365Sunday · 7,595 births
Weekend years
16 of 5629% of the record2023 was the most recent
Around the world

December 10 in other countries

December 10 is the 84th rarest birthday in the United States. It is among the 50 rarest in 11 of the 26 other countries, and ranges from #60 in Chile to #355 in Norway.

  1. Chile

    #60 of 366

    714 births on an average December 10

    DEIS, 1990–⁠2017
  2. New Zealand

    #64 of 366

    161 births on an average December 10

    Stats NZ, 1980–⁠2023
  3. Philippines

    #97 of 366

    4,750 births on an average December 10

    PSA, 2006–⁠2024
  4. Costa Rica

    #142 of 366

    170 births on an average December 10

    INEC Costa Rica, 2014–⁠2024
  5. Guatemala

    #150 of 366

    955 births on an average December 10

    INE Guatemala, 2018–⁠2024
  6. France

    #170 of 366

    2,153 births on an average December 10

    INSEE, 1998–⁠2024
  7. Malaysia

    #180 of 366

    1,397 births on an average December 10

    DOSM, 2000–⁠2022
  8. Portugal

    #180 of 366

    298 births on an average December 10

    INE Portugal, 1980–⁠2025
  9. Mexico

    #206 of 366

    4,959 births on an average December 10

    INEGI, 2017–⁠2023
  10. Argentina

    #232 of 366

    1,468 births on an average December 10

    DEIS, 2018–⁠2023
  11. Japan

    #243 of 366

    2,742 births on an average December 10

    e-Stat, 1996–⁠2025
  12. Ireland

    #250 of 366

    165 births on an average December 10

    CSO, 1980–⁠2023
  13. Denmark

    #274 of 366

    160 births on an average December 10

    Statistics Denmark, 2007–⁠2025
  14. Brazil

    #299 of 366

    7,567 births on an average December 10

    DATASUS, 1997–⁠2024
  15. Switzerland

    #300 of 366

    212 births on an average December 10

    FSO, 1969–⁠2025
  16. Belgium

    #318 of 366

    314 births on an average December 10

    Statbel, 1992–⁠2025
  17. Hungary

    #323 of 366

    310 births on an average December 10

    KSH, 1970–⁠2020
  18. Slovenia

    #328 of 366

    49 births on an average December 10

    SURS, 2000–⁠2025
  19. Latvia

    #332 of 366

    49 births on an average December 10

    CSB, 1996–⁠2025
  20. Netherlands

    #333 of 366

    478 births on an average December 10

    CBS, 1995–⁠2025
  21. England & Wales

    #338 of 366

    1,735 births on an average December 10

    ONS, 1995–⁠2025
  22. Finland

    #341 of 366

    130 births on an average December 10

    Statistics Finland, 2010–⁠2025
  23. Ecuador

    #342 of 366

    705 births on an average December 10

    INEC, 2013–⁠2023
  24. Germany

    #345 of 366

    1,880 births on an average December 10

    Destatis, 2014–⁠2025
  25. Peru

    #349 of 366

    1,098 births on an average December 10

    INEI, 2019–⁠2025
  26. Norway

    #355 of 366

    127 births on an average December 10

    SSB, 2011–⁠2025
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December against the other eleven

December 10 is the 8th rarest of the 31 days in December. All December birthdays.

December is the 4th rarest month of the year

An average December day sees 10,633 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

December 10#283 of 36610,576 births a year

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Questions

Quick answers

How many babies are born on December 10?

About 10,576 a year in the United States. It was at its most common in 2013, when 12,472 babies were born and it ranked #73 of 365; at its rarest in 1995, with 7,595 births at #360.

Is December 10 a common birthday?

In the United States, December 10 is the 84th rarest of 366 dates, with about 10,576 births a year. That puts it on the rarer side of the calendar.

What is the rarest December birthday?

In the United States, December 25: the rarest of all 366 dates, with about 6,546 births a year. The most common December birthday is December 28, the 6th most common of the year.

How precise is the ranking?

In the middle of the calendar it is not exact. 85 other dates are within 1% of December 10's count, spread from #238 to #323, 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 December 10 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 Norway, at #355 of 366, and at its most common in Chile, at #60.

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