Is December 19 a rare birthday? Popular
More common than 84% of all 366 dates.
December 19 in numbers
The odds, the star sign and the other dates that come with it.
Where December 19 ranks
From most common birthday to rarest, December 19 ranks in position #61, with 11,366 births a year. 305 other dates are rarer. 52 dates are within 1% of its count, anywhere from #36 to #88, so the exact position is a close thing.
December 19 through the years
Where it ranked in the United States, year by year.
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December 19 in other countries
December 19 is the 61st most common birthday in the United States. It is among the 50 most common in 3 of the 26 other countries, and ranges from #11 in Belgium to #331 in Finland.
Belgium
#11 of 366
348 births on an average December 19
Statbel, 1992–2025Ireland
#14 of 366
180 births on an average December 19
CSO, 1980–2023Chile
#25 of 366
734 births on an average December 19
DEIS, 1990–2017Portugal
#51 of 366
308 births on an average December 19
INE Portugal, 1980–2025France
#61 of 366
2,217 births on an average December 19
INSEE, 1998–2024New Zealand
#75 of 366
161 births on an average December 19
Stats NZ, 1980–2023England & Wales
#80 of 366
1,823 births on an average December 19
ONS, 1995–2025Costa Rica
#94 of 366
174 births on an average December 19
INEC Costa Rica, 2014–2024Philippines
#133 of 366
4,576 births on an average December 19
PSA, 2006–2024Mexico
#134 of 366
5,144 births on an average December 19
INEGI, 2017–2023Hungary
#142 of 366
329 births on an average December 19
KSH, 1970–2020Japan
#148 of 366
2,804 births on an average December 19
e-Stat, 1996–2025Argentina
#175 of 366
1,520 births on an average December 19
DEIS, 2018–2023Germany
#180 of 366
2,014 births on an average December 19
Destatis, 2014–2025Netherlands
#183 of 366
496 births on an average December 19
CBS, 1995–2025Slovenia
#259 of 366
51 births on an average December 19
SURS, 2000–2025Malaysia
#261 of 366
1,374 births on an average December 19
DOSM, 2000–2022Brazil
#266 of 366
7,706 births on an average December 19
DATASUS, 1997–2024Latvia
#270 of 366
51 births on an average December 19
CSB, 1996–2025Ecuador
#272 of 366
739 births on an average December 19
INEC, 2013–2023Guatemala
#285 of 366
917 births on an average December 19
INE Guatemala, 2018–2024Switzerland
#288 of 366
214 births on an average December 19
FSO, 1969–2025Denmark
#305 of 366
157 births on an average December 19
Statistics Denmark, 2007–2025Peru
#308 of 366
1,138 births on an average December 19
INEI, 2019–2025Norway
#328 of 366
135 births on an average December 19
SSB, 2011–2025Finland
#331 of 366
131 births on an average December 19
Statistics Finland, 2010–2025
Famous people born on December 19
Ranked by how often people looked them up on Wikipedia last year.
Jake GyllenhaalAmerican actor · born 1980
Alyssa MilanoAmerican actress · born 1972
Leonid BrezhnevLeader of the Soviet Union from 1964 to 1982 · born 1906
Ronan FarrowAmerican journalist · born 1987
Karim BenzemaFrench footballer · born 1987
Brandon SandersonAmerican fiction writer · born 1975
Lauren BoebertAmerican politician · born 1986
Richard HammondEnglish journalist, television presenter, and author · born 1969December against the other eleven
December 19 is the 7th most common 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.
Quick answers
How many babies are born on December 19?
About 11,366 a year in the United States. It was at its most common in 1972, when 10,264 babies were born and it ranked #2 of 366; at its rarest in 1971, with 7,952 births at #357.
Is December 19 a common birthday?
In the United States, December 19 is the 61st most common of 366 dates, with about 11,366 births a year. That puts it among the more common birthdays.
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. 52 other dates are within 1% of December 19's count, spread from #36 to #88, 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 19 rarer in other countries?
In some. It is rarer in 21 of the 26 other countries we hold daily records for. It is at its rarest in Finland, at #331 of 366, and at its most common in Belgium, at #11.
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