Is July 1 a rare birthday? Popular
More common than 91% of all 366 dates.
July 1 in numbers
The odds, the star sign and the other dates that come with it.
Where July 1 ranks
From most common birthday to rarest, July 1 ranks in position #35, with 11,480 births a year. 331 other dates are rarer. 44 dates are within 1% of its count, anywhere from #17 to #61, so the exact position is a close thing.
July 1 through the years
Where it ranked in the United States, year by year.
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July 1 in other countries
July 1 is the 35th most common birthday in the United States. It is among the 50 most common in 7 of the 26 other countries, and ranges from #7 in Switzerland to #344 in Guatemala.
Switzerland
#7 of 366
235 births on an average July 1
FSO, 1969–2025Latvia
#8 of 366
60 births on an average July 1
CSB, 1996–2025Belgium
#22 of 366
346 births on an average July 1
Statbel, 1992–2025Slovenia
#24 of 366
58 births on an average July 1
SURS, 2000–2025Norway
#26 of 366
171 births on an average July 1
SSB, 2011–2025Denmark
#37 of 366
177 births on an average July 1
Statistics Denmark, 2007–2025Germany
#37 of 366
2,217 births on an average July 1
Destatis, 2014–2025Finland
#53 of 366
148 births on an average July 1
Statistics Finland, 2010–2025Ireland
#54 of 366
174 births on an average July 1
CSO, 1980–2023Japan
#62 of 366
2,894 births on an average July 1
e-Stat, 1996–2025England & Wales
#69 of 366
1,828 births on an average July 1
ONS, 1995–2025Ecuador
#73 of 366
790 births on an average July 1
INEC, 2013–2023Malaysia
#84 of 366
1,432 births on an average July 1
DOSM, 2000–2022France
#96 of 366
2,199 births on an average July 1
INSEE, 1998–2024Netherlands
#99 of 366
515 births on an average July 1
CBS, 1995–2025Hungary
#103 of 366
333 births on an average July 1
KSH, 1970–2020Portugal
#108 of 366
302 births on an average July 1
INE Portugal, 1980–2025Peru
#128 of 366
1,221 births on an average July 1
INEI, 2019–2025Brazil
#137 of 366
8,157 births on an average July 1
DATASUS, 1997–2024Philippines
#197 of 366
4,411 births on an average July 1
PSA, 2006–2024New Zealand
#226 of 366
156 births on an average July 1
Stats NZ, 1980–2023Argentina
#252 of 366
1,441 births on an average July 1
DEIS, 2018–2023Mexico
#264 of 366
4,857 births on an average July 1
INEGI, 2017–2023Chile
#265 of 366
679 births on an average July 1
DEIS, 1990–2017Costa Rica
#284 of 366
162 births on an average July 1
INEC Costa Rica, 2014–2024Guatemala
#344 of 366
887 births on an average July 1
INE Guatemala, 2018–2024
Famous people born on July 1
Ranked by how often people looked them up on Wikipedia last year.
Pamela AndersonCanadian-American actress and model · born 1967
Tate McRaeCanadian singer and dancer · born 2003
Diana, Princess of WalesMember of the British royal family · born 1961
Liv TylerAmerican actress · born 1977
Dan AykroydCanadian and American actor and musician · born 1952
Andre BraugherAmerican actor · born 1962
Julianne NicholsonAmerican actress · born 1971
Alejandro GarnachoArgentine footballer · born 2004July against the other eleven
July 1 is the 3rd most common of the 31 days in July. All July birthdays.
July is the 3rd most common month of the year
An average July day sees 11,238 births in the United States. September is the busiest month, January the quietest.
Quick answers
How many babies are born on July 1?
About 11,480 a year in the United States. It was at its most common in 1997, when 13,003 babies were born and it ranked #2 of 365; at its rarest in 1973, with 7,561 births at #326.
Is July 1 a common birthday?
In the United States, July 1 is the 35th most common of 366 dates, with about 11,480 births a year. That puts it among the more common birthdays.
What is the rarest July birthday?
In the United States, July 4: the 4th rarest of all 366 dates, with about 8,692 births a year. The most common July birthday is July 7, the 5th most common of the year.
How precise is the ranking?
In the middle of the calendar it is not exact. 44 other dates are within 1% of July 1's count, spread from #17 to #61, 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 July 1 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 Guatemala, at #344 of 366, and at its most common in Switzerland, at #7.
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