Is December 3 a rare birthday? Ordinary
Rarer than 55% of all 366 dates.
December 3 in numbers
The odds, the star sign and the other dates that come with it.
Where December 3 ranks
From most common birthday to rarest, December 3 ranks in position #202, with 10,759 births a year. 201 other dates are more common. 92 dates are within 1% of its count, anywhere from #159 to #251, so the exact position is a close thing.
December 3 through the years
Where it ranked in the United States, year by year.
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December 3 in other countries
December 3 is the 165th rarest birthday in the United States. It is among the 50 rarest in 12 of the 26 other countries, and ranges from #98 in the Philippines to #355 in Germany.
Philippines
#98 of 366
4,740 births on an average December 3
PSA, 2006–2024Costa Rica
#121 of 366
172 births on an average December 3
INEC Costa Rica, 2014–2024New Zealand
#130 of 366
159 births on an average December 3
Stats NZ, 1980–2023Japan
#188 of 366
2,778 births on an average December 3
e-Stat, 1996–2025Malaysia
#207 of 366
1,389 births on an average December 3
DOSM, 2000–2022France
#231 of 366
2,124 births on an average December 3
INSEE, 1998–2024Latvia
#245 of 366
52 births on an average December 3
CSB, 1996–2025Mexico
#246 of 366
4,886 births on an average December 3
INEGI, 2017–2023Ireland
#252 of 366
165 births on an average December 3
CSO, 1980–2023Chile
#253 of 366
681 births on an average December 3
DEIS, 1990–2017Peru
#287 of 366
1,148 births on an average December 3
INEI, 2019–2025Denmark
#288 of 366
159 births on an average December 3
Statistics Denmark, 2007–2025Portugal
#302 of 366
287 births on an average December 3
INE Portugal, 1980–2025Slovenia
#302 of 366
50 births on an average December 3
SURS, 2000–2025Argentina
#320 of 366
1,374 births on an average December 3
DEIS, 2018–2023Hungary
#328 of 366
310 births on an average December 3
KSH, 1970–2020Ecuador
#330 of 366
712 births on an average December 3
INEC, 2013–2023Guatemala
#334 of 366
900 births on an average December 3
INE Guatemala, 2018–2024England & Wales
#335 of 366
1,738 births on an average December 3
ONS, 1995–2025Norway
#336 of 366
133 births on an average December 3
SSB, 2011–2025Brazil
#338 of 366
7,369 births on an average December 3
DATASUS, 1997–2024Finland
#340 of 366
130 births on an average December 3
Statistics Finland, 2010–2025Belgium
#342 of 366
306 births on an average December 3
Statbel, 1992–2025Switzerland
#343 of 366
206 births on an average December 3
FSO, 1969–2025Netherlands
#349 of 366
471 births on an average December 3
CBS, 1995–2025Germany
#355 of 366
1,847 births on an average December 3
Destatis, 2014–2025
Famous people born on December 3
Ranked by how often people looked them up on Wikipedia last year.
Ozzy OsbourneEnglish musician and media personality · born 1948
Amanda SeyfriedAmerican actress · born 1985
Brendan FraserAmerican and Canadian actor · born 1968
Julianne MooreAmerican actress · born 1960
Daryl HannahAmerican actress and director · born 1960
Jenna DewanAmerican actress and dancer · born 1980
Tiffany HaddishAmerican comedian and actress · born 1979
Michael AngaranoAmerican actor · born 1987December against the other eleven
December 3 is the 15th 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.
Quick answers
How many babies are born on December 3?
About 10,759 a year in the United States. It was at its most common in 2013, when 13,159 babies were born and it ranked #12 of 365; at its rarest in 1995, with 7,703 births at #357.
Is December 3 a common birthday?
In the United States, December 3 is the 165th rarest of 366 dates, with about 10,759 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. 92 other dates are within 1% of December 3's count, spread from #159 to #251, 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 3 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 Germany, at #355 of 366, and at its most common in the Philippines, at #98.
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