Is January 5 a rare birthday? Ordinary
Rarer than 54% of all 366 dates.
January 5 in numbers
The odds, the star sign and the other dates that come with it.
Where January 5 ranks
From most common birthday to rarest, January 5 ranks in position #198, with 10,768 births a year. 197 other dates are more common. 87 dates are within 1% of its count, anywhere from #157 to #244, so the exact position is a close thing.
January 5 through the years
Where it ranked in the United States, year by year.
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January 5 in other countries
January 5 is the 169th rarest birthday in the United States. It is not among the 50 rarest in any of the 26 other countries, and ranges from #6 in Japan to #266 in Norway.
Japan
#6 of 366
3,092 births on an average January 5
e-Stat, 1996–2025Chile
#11 of 366
773 births on an average January 5
DEIS, 1990–2017Guatemala
#13 of 366
1,056 births on an average January 5
INE Guatemala, 2018–2024Costa Rica
#21 of 366
182 births on an average January 5
INEC Costa Rica, 2014–2024Finland
#28 of 366
150 births on an average January 5
Statistics Finland, 2010–2025Philippines
#42 of 366
5,011 births on an average January 5
PSA, 2006–2024Hungary
#89 of 366
335 births on an average January 5
KSH, 1970–2020New Zealand
#104 of 366
159 births on an average January 5
Stats NZ, 1980–2023Argentina
#112 of 366
1,587 births on an average January 5
DEIS, 2018–2023Portugal
#126 of 366
301 births on an average January 5
INE Portugal, 1980–2025Mexico
#133 of 366
5,145 births on an average January 5
INEGI, 2017–2023Brazil
#135 of 366
8,166 births on an average January 5
DATASUS, 1997–2024Ireland
#136 of 366
169 births on an average January 5
CSO, 1980–2023Netherlands
#138 of 366
503 births on an average January 5
CBS, 1995–2025France
#142 of 366
2,172 births on an average January 5
INSEE, 1998–2024Slovenia
#152 of 366
54 births on an average January 5
SURS, 2000–2025Belgium
#156 of 366
329 births on an average January 5
Statbel, 1992–2025England & Wales
#157 of 366
1,795 births on an average January 5
ONS, 1995–2025Germany
#172 of 366
2,019 births on an average January 5
Destatis, 2014–2025Latvia
#173 of 366
54 births on an average January 5
CSB, 1996–2025Malaysia
#174 of 366
1,399 births on an average January 5
DOSM, 2000–2022Peru
#186 of 366
1,200 births on an average January 5
INEI, 2019–2025Ecuador
#209 of 366
759 births on an average January 5
INEC, 2013–2023Switzerland
#209 of 366
222 births on an average January 5
FSO, 1969–2025Denmark
#238 of 366
162 births on an average January 5
Statistics Denmark, 2007–2025Norway
#266 of 366
149 births on an average January 5
SSB, 2011–2025
Famous people born on January 5
Ranked by how often people looked them up on Wikipedia last year.
Diane KeatonAmerican actress · born 1946
Bradley CooperAmerican actor and filmmaker · born 1975
Marilyn MansonAmerican musician · born 1969
Robert DuvallAmerican actor and filmmaker · born 1931
Suki WaterhouseEnglish actress, singer, and model · born 1992
Hayao MiyazakiJapanese animator and artist · born 1941
Deepika PadukoneIndian actress · born 1986
Clancy BrownAmerican actor · born 1959January against the other eleven
January 5 is the 2nd most common of the 31 days in January. All January birthdays.
January is the rarest month of the year
An average January day sees 10,394 births in the United States. September is the busiest month, January the quietest.
Quick answers
How many babies are born on January 5?
About 10,768 a year in the United States. It was at its most common in 2023, when 11,469 babies were born and it ranked #44 of 365; at its rarest in 2014, with 7,112 births at #355.
Is January 5 a common birthday?
In the United States, January 5 is the 169th rarest of 366 dates, with about 10,768 births a year. That makes it an ordinary birthday: neither rare nor especially common.
What is the rarest January birthday?
In the United States, January 1: the 2nd rarest of all 366 dates, with about 7,731 births a year. The most common January birthday is January 4, the 179th most common of the year.
How precise is the ranking?
In the middle of the calendar it is not exact. 87 other dates are within 1% of January 5's count, spread from #157 to #244, 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 January 5 rarer in other countries?
In some. It is rarer in 4 of the 26 other countries we hold daily records for. It is at its rarest in Norway, at #266 of 366, and at its most common in Japan, at #6.
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