Is December 25 a rare birthday? Very rare

Rarer than every other date on the calendar.

Christmas Day is the rarest birthday on the US calendar. Hospitals postpone every delivery they can.

December 25 #366
Most commonSeptember 9RarestDecember 25
Cartoon birthday scene for December 25: a child behind a cake whose candles spell the date
At a glance

Christmas Day in numbers

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

Born each year≈ 6,546in the United States — about 608,000 of them are alive today
In a full stadium83 peopleof 50,000 were born on December 25
On the day itselfEvery 13 secondsa baby is born on December 25 somewhere in the United States
Star signCapricornthe rarest of the 29 Capricorn birthdays
Half-birthdayJune 25six months later, to the day
Conceived aroundApril 3Right around April Fools' Day.
Birth frequency by rank

Where December 25 ranks

From most common birthday to rarest, December 25 ranks in position #366, with 6,546 births a year. No other date is rarer.

December 25#366 · 6,546 a year11,9006,546#1#366
56 years of records

December 25 through the years

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

Fell on a weekdayOn a weekend
rarestmost
common
1969, Thursday: rank #354 of 365, 8,284 births1970, Friday: rank #356 of 365, 8,490 births1971, Saturday: rank #365 of 365, 7,240 births1972, Monday: rank #364 of 366, 7,241 births1973, Tuesday: rank #362 of 365, 6,964 births1974, Wednesday: rank #365 of 365, 6,820 births1975, Thursday: rank #362 of 365, 7,145 births1976, Saturday: rank #357 of 366, 7,185 births1977, Sunday: rank #362 of 365, 7,404 births1978, Monday: rank #336 of 365, 7,860 births1979, Tuesday: rank #357 of 365, 7,968 births1980, Thursday: rank #365 of 366, 7,979 births1981, Friday: rank #364 of 365, 8,023 births1982, Saturday: rank #365 of 365, 7,825 births1983, Sunday: rank #365 of 365, 7,645 births1984, Tuesday: rank #365 of 366, 7,851 births1985, Wednesday: rank #365 of 365, 8,031 births1986, Thursday: rank #361 of 365, 8,107 births1987, Friday: rank #365 of 365, 7,881 births1988, Sunday: rank #366 of 366, 7,835 births1989, Monday: rank #365 of 365, 8,269 births1990, Tuesday: rank #365 of 365, 8,083 births1991, Wednesday: rank #365 of 365, 8,210 births1992, Friday: rank #366 of 366, 7,691 births1993, Saturday: rank #365 of 365, 7,497 births1994, Sunday: rank #365 of 365, 7,192 births1995, Monday: rank #364 of 365, 7,027 births1996, Wednesday: rank #366 of 366, 7,092 births1997, Thursday: rank #365 of 365, 7,055 births1998, Friday: rank #365 of 365, 7,020 births1999, Saturday: rank #365 of 365, 6,674 births2000, Monday: rank #366 of 366, 6,566 births2001, Tuesday: rank #365 of 365, 6,443 births2002, Wednesday: rank #365 of 365, 6,629 births2003, Thursday: rank #365 of 365, 6,628 births2004, Saturday: rank #366 of 366, 6,162 births2005, Sunday: rank #365 of 365, 6,134 births2006, Monday: rank #365 of 365, 6,320 births2007, Tuesday: rank #365 of 365, 6,542 births2008, Thursday: rank #366 of 366, 6,395 births2009, Friday: rank #365 of 365, 6,084 births2010, Saturday: rank #365 of 365, 6,084 births2011, Sunday: rank #365 of 365, 5,672 births2012, Tuesday: rank #366 of 366, 6,265 births2013, Wednesday: rank #363 of 365, 6,590 births2014, Thursday: rank #363 of 365, 6,808 births2015, Friday: rank #365 of 365, 6,515 births2016, Sunday: rank #366 of 366, 5,886 births2017, Monday: rank #365 of 365, 5,708 births2018, Tuesday: rank #365 of 365, 6,004 births2019, Wednesday: rank #365 of 365, 5,963 births2020, Friday: rank #366 of 366, 5,437 births2021, Saturday: rank #365 of 365, 5,697 births2022, Sunday: rank #365 of 365, 5,683 births2023, Monday: rank #365 of 365, 5,412 births2024, Wednesday: rank #366 of 366, 6,216 births1970198019902000201020202024

On a weekend it slips to #365, from #363 on a working day

Inductions and planned caesareans are booked on working days, so 4.3% fewer babies arrive and the date falls down the ranking. Each bar is the average rank of the years it landed on that day.

#361
Mon
#364
Tue
#365
Wed
#363
Thu
#364
Fri
#364
Sat
#365
Sun
Most common year
1978#336 of 365Monday · 7,860 births
Rarest year
1988#366 of 366Sunday · 7,835 births
Weekend years
16 of 5629% of the record2022 was the most recent
Around the world

December 25 in other countries

December 25 is the rarest birthday in the United States. It is among the 50 rarest in 25 of the 26 other countries, and ranges from #2 in Japan to #366 in 15 countries.

  1. Japan

    #2 of 366

    3,164 births on an average December 25

    e-Stat, 1996–⁠2025

  2. Philippines

    #338 of 366

    4,070 births on an average December 25

    PSA, 2006–⁠2024

  3. Ecuador

    #364 of 366

    569 births on an average December 25

    INEC, 2013–⁠2023

  4. Netherlands

    #364 of 366

    370 births on an average December 25

    CBS, 1995–⁠2025

  5. Costa Rica

    #365 of 366

    132 births on an average December 25

    INEC Costa Rica, 2014–⁠2024

  6. Denmark

    #365 of 366

    115 births on an average December 25

    Statistics Denmark, 2007–⁠2025

  7. England & Wales

    #365 of 366

    1,360 births on an average December 25

    ONS, 1995–⁠2025

  8. Guatemala

    #365 of 366

    684 births on an average December 25

    INE Guatemala, 2018–⁠2024

  9. Hungary

    #365 of 366

    264 births on an average December 25

    KSH, 1970–⁠2020

  10. Ireland

    #365 of 366

    108 births on an average December 25

    CSO, 1980–⁠2023

  11. Slovenia

    #365 of 366

    39 births on an average December 25

    SURS, 2000–⁠2025

  12. Argentina

    #366 of 366

    771 births on an average December 25

    DEIS, 2018–⁠2023

  13. Belgium

    #366 of 366

    197 births on an average December 25

    Statbel, 1992–⁠2025

  14. Brazil

    #366 of 366

    5,500 births on an average December 25

    DATASUS, 1997–⁠2024

  15. Chile

    #366 of 366

    428 births on an average December 25

    DEIS, 1990–⁠2017

  16. Finland

    #366 of 366

    99 births on an average December 25

    Statistics Finland, 2010–⁠2025

  17. France

    #366 of 366

    1,644 births on an average December 25

    INSEE, 1998–⁠2024

  18. Germany

    #366 of 366

    1,430 births on an average December 25

    Destatis, 2014–⁠2025

  19. Latvia

    #366 of 366

    36 births on an average December 25

    CSB, 1996–⁠2025

  20. Malaysia

    #366 of 366

    1,232 births on an average December 25

    DOSM, 2000–⁠2022

  21. Mexico

    #366 of 366

    3,286 births on an average December 25

    INEGI, 2017–⁠2023

  22. New Zealand

    #366 of 366

    117 births on an average December 25

    Stats NZ, 1980–⁠2023

  23. Norway

    #366 of 366

    104 births on an average December 25

    SSB, 2011–⁠2025

  24. Peru

    #366 of 366

    865 births on an average December 25

    INEI, 2019–⁠2025

  25. Portugal

    #366 of 366

    205 births on an average December 25

    INE Portugal, 1980–⁠2025

  26. Switzerland

    #366 of 366

    163 births on an average December 25

    FSO, 1969–⁠2025
Birthday twins

Famous people born on Christmas

Ranked by how often people looked them up on Wikipedia last year.

Justin TrudeauJustin TrudeauPrime Minister of Canada from 2015 to 2025 · born 1971Isaac NewtonIsaac NewtonEnglish polymath · born 1642Humphrey BogartHumphrey BogartAmerican actor · born 1899Jeremy StrongJeremy StrongAmerican actor · born 1978Muhammad Ali JinnahMuhammad Ali JinnahFounder and 1st Governor-General of Pakistan · born 1876Annie LennoxAnnie LennoxScottish musician · born 1954Jimmy BuffettJimmy BuffettAmerican singer-songwriter · born 1946Atal Bihari VajpayeeAtal Bihari VajpayeePrime Minister of India (1996; 1998–⁠99, 1999–⁠2004) · born 1924
Zoom out

December against the other eleven

December 25 is the 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.

10,394
Jan
10,637
Feb
10,658
Mar
10,557
Apr
10,702
May
10,990
Jun
11,238
Jul
11,405
Aug
11,448
Sep
10,872
Oct
10,616
Nov
10,633
Dec
December 24
Births a year7,994
Rank#364
December 25
Births a year6,546
Rank#366
December 26
Births a year9,215
Rank#361

December 25 is the rarest of the 15 days around it

#85
18
#61
19
#15
20
#29
21
#124
22
#351
23
#364
24
#366
25
#361
26
#56
27
#6
28
#24
29
#37
30
#350
31
#365
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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 25#366 of 3666,546 births a year

JanJFebFMarMAprAMayMJunJJulJAugASepSOctONovNDecD151015202530
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Questions

Quick answers

Is Christmas a rare birthday?

Yes. Christmas is the rarest US birthday of the 366. It is not leap day. Wards run a holiday schedule, so 25 December has fewer births per occurrence than any other date, February 29 included.

How many babies are born on December 25?

About 6,546 a year in the United States. It was at its most common in 1978, when 7,860 babies were born and it ranked #336 of 365; at its rarest in 1988, with 7,835 births at #366.

Is December 25 a common birthday?

In the United States, December 25 is the rarest of 366 dates, with about 6,546 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?

For December 25 the rank is stable. Only this date sits within 1% of its count, so the order does not depend on which years you count. In the crowded middle, dozens of dates can sit within a single percent of each other.

Is December 25 rarer in other countries?

No. December 25 is not rarer in any of the 26 other countries we hold daily records for; it shares the same rank in 15 of them. It is at its rarest in 15 countries, at #366 of 366, and at its most common in Japan, at #2.

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