Is December 2 a rare birthday? Ordinary
More common than 52% of all 366 dates.
December 2 in numbers
The odds, the star sign and the other dates that come with it.
Where December 2 ranks
From most common birthday to rarest, December 2 ranks in position #176, with 10,827 births a year. 190 other dates are rarer. 79 dates are within 1% of its count, anywhere from #141 to #220, so the exact position is a close thing.
December 2 through the years
Where it ranked in the United States, year by year.
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December 2 in other countries
December 2 is the 176th most common birthday in the United States. It is not among the 50 most common in any of the 26 other countries, and ranges from #112 in Malaysia and the Philippines to #358 in Norway.
Malaysia
#112 of 366
1,415 births on an average December 2
DOSM, 2000–2022Philippines
#112 of 366
4,690 births on an average December 2
PSA, 2006–2024New Zealand
#129 of 366
159 births on an average December 2
Stats NZ, 1980–2023Costa Rica
#166 of 366
168 births on an average December 2
INEC Costa Rica, 2014–2024Chile
#200 of 366
687 births on an average December 2
DEIS, 1990–2017Mexico
#215 of 366
4,943 births on an average December 2
INEGI, 2017–2023France
#251 of 366
2,115 births on an average December 2
INSEE, 1998–2024Peru
#253 of 366
1,169 births on an average December 2
INEI, 2019–2025Germany
#289 of 366
1,941 births on an average December 2
Destatis, 2014–2025Guatemala
#289 of 366
916 births on an average December 2
INE Guatemala, 2018–2024Ecuador
#293 of 366
730 births on an average December 2
INEC, 2013–2023Japan
#301 of 366
2,699 births on an average December 2
e-Stat, 1996–2025Argentina
#304 of 366
1,392 births on an average December 2
DEIS, 2018–2023Finland
#310 of 366
135 births on an average December 2
Statistics Finland, 2010–2025Slovenia
#311 of 366
50 births on an average December 2
SURS, 2000–2025Switzerland
#318 of 366
210 births on an average December 2
FSO, 1969–2025Ireland
#323 of 366
162 births on an average December 2
CSO, 1980–2023Belgium
#324 of 366
313 births on an average December 2
Statbel, 1992–2025Brazil
#337 of 366
7,379 births on an average December 2
DATASUS, 1997–2024Denmark
#337 of 366
154 births on an average December 2
Statistics Denmark, 2007–2025Latvia
#338 of 366
49 births on an average December 2
CSB, 1996–2025Portugal
#345 of 366
281 births on an average December 2
INE Portugal, 1980–2025England & Wales
#347 of 366
1,728 births on an average December 2
ONS, 1995–2025Netherlands
#347 of 366
473 births on an average December 2
CBS, 1995–2025Hungary
#354 of 366
304 births on an average December 2
KSH, 1970–2020Norway
#358 of 366
125 births on an average December 2
SSB, 2011–2025
Famous people born on December 2
Ranked by how often people looked them up on Wikipedia last year.
Aaron RodgersAmerican football player · born 1983
Britney SpearsAmerican singer · born 1981
Maria CallasAmerican and Greek soprano · born 1923
Lucy LiuAmerican actress · born 1968
Juice WrldAmerican rapper · born 1998
Anna KalinskayaRussian tennis player · born 1998
Nelly FurtadoCanadian singer · born 1978
Monica SelesYugoslav–American tennis player · born 1973December against the other eleven
December 2 is the 15th 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 2?
About 10,827 a year in the United States. It was at its most common in 1997, when 12,509 babies were born and it ranked #22 of 365; at its rarest in 2001, with 7,216 births at #361.
Is December 2 a common birthday?
In the United States, December 2 is the 176th most common of 366 dates, with about 10,827 births a year. That makes it an ordinary birthday: neither rare nor especially common.
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. 79 other dates are within 1% of December 2's count, spread from #141 to #220, 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 2 rarer in other countries?
In some. It is rarer in 22 of the 26 other countries we hold daily records for. It is at its rarest in Norway, at #358 of 366, and at its most common in Malaysia and the Philippines, at #112.
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