Is July 10 a rare birthday? Popular

More common than 89% of all 366 dates.

July 10 #41
Most commonSeptember 9RarestDecember 25
Cartoon birthday scene for July 10: a child behind a cake whose candles spell the date
At a glance

July 10 in numbers

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

Born each year≈ 11,443in the United States — about 980,000 of them are alive today
In a full stadium144 peopleof 50,000 were born on July 10
On the day itselfEvery 8 secondsa baby is born on July 10 somewhere in the United States
Star signCancermore common than 28 of the 32 Cancer birthdays
Half-birthdayJanuary 10six months later, to the day
Conceived aroundOctober 17A cosy autumn night, then.
Birth frequency by rank

Where July 10 ranks

From most common birthday to rarest, July 10 ranks in position #41, with 11,443 births a year. 325 other dates are rarer. 47 dates are within 1% of its count, anywhere from #22 to #69, so the exact position is a close thing.

56 years of records

July 10 through the years

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

Fell on a weekdayOn a weekend
rarestmost
common
1969, Thursday: rank #80 of 365, 10,562 births1970, Friday: rank #92 of 365, 10,862 births1971, Saturday: rank #279 of 365, 9,160 births1972, Monday: rank #141 of 366, 9,262 births1973, Tuesday: rank #17 of 365, 9,627 births1974, Wednesday: rank #72 of 365, 9,423 births1975, Thursday: rank #83 of 365, 9,224 births1976, Saturday: rank #265 of 366, 8,269 births1977, Sunday: rank #319 of 365, 7,983 births1978, Monday: rank #77 of 365, 9,887 births1979, Tuesday: rank #29 of 365, 10,793 births1980, Thursday: rank #66 of 366, 10,768 births1981, Friday: rank #15 of 365, 11,364 births1982, Saturday: rank #260 of 365, 9,591 births1983, Sunday: rank #288 of 365, 8,838 births1984, Tuesday: rank #16 of 366, 11,661 births1985, Wednesday: rank #28 of 365, 11,640 births1986, Thursday: rank #32 of 365, 11,684 births1987, Friday: rank #40 of 365, 11,646 births1988, Sunday: rank #275 of 366, 9,408 births1989, Monday: rank #78 of 365, 12,186 births1990, Tuesday: rank #7 of 365, 13,309 births1991, Wednesday: rank #45 of 365, 12,690 births1992, Friday: rank #26 of 366, 12,640 births1993, Saturday: rank #258 of 365, 9,679 births1994, Sunday: rank #302 of 365, 8,684 births1995, Monday: rank #135 of 365, 11,618 births1996, Wednesday: rank #33 of 366, 12,362 births1997, Thursday: rank #32 of 365, 12,451 births1998, Friday: rank #73 of 365, 12,288 births1999, Saturday: rank #260 of 365, 9,196 births2000, Monday: rank #157 of 366, 12,161 births2001, Tuesday: rank #11 of 365, 13,317 births2002, Wednesday: rank #47 of 365, 12,998 births2003, Thursday: rank #34 of 365, 13,381 births2004, Saturday: rank #262 of 366, 8,922 births2005, Sunday: rank #315 of 365, 7,719 births2006, Monday: rank #129 of 365, 13,135 births2007, Tuesday: rank #9 of 365, 14,709 births2008, Thursday: rank #36 of 366, 13,780 births2009, Friday: rank #91 of 365, 13,074 births2010, Saturday: rank #263 of 365, 8,399 births2011, Sunday: rank #311 of 365, 7,550 births2012, Tuesday: rank #13 of 366, 13,367 births2013, Wednesday: rank #41 of 365, 12,757 births2014, Thursday: rank #27 of 365, 13,073 births2015, Friday: rank #87 of 365, 12,396 births2016, Sunday: rank #321 of 366, 7,647 births2017, Monday: rank #107 of 365, 11,904 births2018, Tuesday: rank #35 of 365, 12,232 births2019, Wednesday: rank #34 of 365, 12,206 births2020, Friday: rank #62 of 366, 11,389 births2021, Saturday: rank #258 of 365, 8,609 births2022, Sunday: rank #313 of 365, 7,406 births2023, Monday: rank #114 of 365, 11,072 births2024, Wednesday: rank #33 of 366, 11,651 births1970198019902000201020202024

On a weekend it slips to #284, from #57 on a working day

Inductions and planned caesareans are booked on working days, so 28.1% fewer babies arrive and the date falls down the ranking. Each bar is the average rank of the years it landed on that day.

#117
Mon
#17
Tue
#42
Wed
#49
Thu
#61
Fri
#263
Sat
#306
Sun
Most common year
1990#7 of 365Tuesday · 13,309 births
Rarest year
2016#321 of 366Sunday · 7,647 births
Weekend years
16 of 5629% of the record2022 was the most recent
Around the world

July 10 in other countries

July 10 is the 41st most common birthday in the United States. It is among the 50 most common in 12 of the 26 other countries, and ranges from #11 in Switzerland to #235 in New Zealand.

  1. Switzerland

    #11 of 366

    234 births on an average July 10

    FSO, 1969–⁠2025
  2. Norway

    #19 of 366

    171 births on an average July 10

    SSB, 2011–⁠2025
  3. Denmark

    #23 of 366

    179 births on an average July 10

    Statistics Denmark, 2007–⁠2025
  4. Netherlands

    #24 of 366

    529 births on an average July 10

    CBS, 1995–⁠2025
  5. Ecuador

    #25 of 366

    804 births on an average July 10

    INEC, 2013–⁠2023
  6. England & Wales

    #26 of 366

    1,857 births on an average July 10

    ONS, 1995–⁠2025
  7. France

    #26 of 366

    2,253 births on an average July 10

    INSEE, 1998–⁠2024
  8. Hungary

    #27 of 366

    348 births on an average July 10

    KSH, 1970–⁠2020
  9. Finland

    #29 of 366

    150 births on an average July 10

    Statistics Finland, 2010–⁠2025
  10. Slovenia

    #33 of 366

    58 births on an average July 10

    SURS, 2000–⁠2025
  11. Germany

    #40 of 366

    2,212 births on an average July 10

    Destatis, 2014–⁠2025
  12. Belgium

    #47 of 366

    339 births on an average July 10

    Statbel, 1992–⁠2025
  13. Portugal

    #67 of 366

    305 births on an average July 10

    INE Portugal, 1980–⁠2025
  14. Japan

    #89 of 366

    2,864 births on an average July 10

    e-Stat, 1996–⁠2025
  15. Peru

    #97 of 366

    1,233 births on an average July 10

    INEI, 2019–⁠2025
  16. Guatemala

    #113 of 366

    965 births on an average July 10

    INE Guatemala, 2018–⁠2024
  17. Mexico

    #121 of 366

    5,171 births on an average July 10

    INEGI, 2017–⁠2023
  18. Latvia

    #122 of 366

    55 births on an average July 10

    CSB, 1996–⁠2025
  19. Chile

    #125 of 366

    696 births on an average July 10

    DEIS, 1990–⁠2017
  20. Brazil

    #145 of 366

    8,139 births on an average July 10

    DATASUS, 1997–⁠2024
  21. Argentina

    #155 of 366

    1,537 births on an average July 10

    DEIS, 2018–⁠2023
  22. Malaysia

    #172 of 366

    1,400 births on an average July 10

    DOSM, 2000–⁠2022
  23. Philippines

    #174 of 366

    4,439 births on an average July 10

    PSA, 2006–⁠2024
  24. Costa Rica

    #177 of 366

    168 births on an average July 10

    INEC Costa Rica, 2014–⁠2024
  25. Ireland

    #230 of 366

    166 births on an average July 10

    CSO, 1980–⁠2023
  26. New Zealand

    #235 of 366

    156 births on an average July 10

    Stats NZ, 1980–⁠2023
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July against the other eleven

July 10 is the 4th 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.

July 10 is the 3rd most common of the 15 days around it

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

July 10#41 of 36611,443 births a year

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Quick answers

How many babies are born on July 10?

About 11,443 a year in the United States. It was at its most common in 1990, when 13,309 babies were born and it ranked #7 of 365; at its rarest in 2016, with 7,647 births at #321.

Is July 10 a common birthday?

In the United States, July 10 is the 41st most common of 366 dates, with about 11,443 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. 47 other dates are within 1% of July 10's count, spread from #22 to #69, 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 10 rarer in other countries?

In some. It is rarer in 15 of the 26 other countries we hold daily records for. It is at its rarest in New Zealand, at #235 of 366, and at its most common in Switzerland, at #11.

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