Is July 11 a rare birthday? Popular

More common than 87% of all 366 dates.

July 11 #49
Most commonSeptember 9RarestDecember 25
Cartoon birthday scene for July 11: a child behind a cake whose candles spell the date
At a glance

July 11 in numbers

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

Born each year≈ 11,404in the United States — about 974,000 of them are alive today
In a full stadium144 peopleof 50,000 were born on July 11
On the day itselfEvery 8 secondsa baby is born on July 11 somewhere in the United States
Star signCancermore common than 24 of the 32 Cancer birthdays
Half-birthdayJanuary 11six months later, to the day
Conceived aroundOctober 18A cosy autumn night, then.
Birth frequency by rank

Where July 11 ranks

From most common birthday to rarest, July 11 ranks in position #49, with 11,404 births a year. 317 other dates are rarer. 49 dates are within 1% of its count, anywhere from #31 to #80, so the exact position is a close thing.

56 years of records

July 11 through the years

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

Fell on a weekdayOn a weekend
rarestmost
common
1969, Friday: rank #55 of 365, 10,686 births1970, Saturday: rank #269 of 365, 9,690 births1971, Sunday: rank #335 of 365, 8,474 births1972, Tuesday: rank #56 of 366, 9,635 births1973, Wednesday: rank #75 of 365, 9,197 births1974, Thursday: rank #93 of 365, 9,218 births1975, Friday: rank #47 of 365, 9,451 births1976, Sunday: rank #283 of 366, 7,993 births1977, Monday: rank #113 of 365, 9,590 births1978, Tuesday: rank #78 of 365, 9,868 births1979, Wednesday: rank #70 of 365, 10,368 births1980, Friday: rank #25 of 366, 11,078 births1981, Saturday: rank #263 of 365, 9,452 births1982, Sunday: rank #281 of 365, 9,165 births1983, Monday: rank #90 of 365, 10,664 births1984, Wednesday: rank #79 of 366, 10,923 births1985, Thursday: rank #88 of 365, 11,148 births1986, Friday: rank #56 of 365, 11,405 births1987, Saturday: rank #266 of 365, 9,305 births1988, Monday: rank #54 of 366, 11,979 births1989, Tuesday: rank #20 of 365, 12,816 births1990, Wednesday: rank #28 of 365, 12,999 births1991, Thursday: rank #66 of 365, 12,523 births1992, Saturday: rank #261 of 366, 9,723 births1993, Sunday: rank #320 of 365, 8,685 births1994, Monday: rank #172 of 365, 11,567 births1995, Tuesday: rank #22 of 365, 12,552 births1996, Thursday: rank #45 of 366, 12,256 births1997, Friday: rank #65 of 365, 12,132 births1998, Saturday: rank #265 of 365, 8,996 births1999, Sunday: rank #325 of 365, 7,882 births2000, Tuesday: rank #14 of 366, 13,267 births2001, Wednesday: rank #69 of 365, 12,690 births2002, Thursday: rank #49 of 365, 12,974 births2003, Friday: rank #89 of 365, 12,878 births2004, Sunday: rank #316 of 366, 7,763 births2005, Monday: rank #195 of 365, 12,395 births2006, Tuesday: rank #34 of 365, 14,179 births2007, Wednesday: rank #30 of 365, 14,326 births2008, Friday: rank #70 of 366, 13,499 births2009, Saturday: rank #263 of 365, 8,662 births2010, Sunday: rank #319 of 365, 7,302 births2011, Monday: rank #93 of 365, 12,465 births2012, Wednesday: rank #45 of 366, 12,846 births2013, Thursday: rank #54 of 365, 12,666 births2014, Friday: rank #73 of 365, 12,605 births2015, Saturday: rank #265 of 365, 8,769 births2016, Monday: rank #97 of 366, 12,224 births2017, Tuesday: rank #40 of 365, 12,462 births2018, Wednesday: rank #30 of 365, 12,302 births2019, Thursday: rank #39 of 365, 12,163 births2020, Saturday: rank #263 of 366, 8,148 births2021, Sunday: rank #306 of 365, 7,353 births2022, Monday: rank #130 of 365, 11,156 births2023, Tuesday: rank #10 of 365, 11,772 births2024, Thursday: rank #50 of 366, 11,529 births1970198019902000201020202024

On a weekend it slips to #288, from #65 on a working day

Inductions and planned caesareans are booked on working days, so 27.3% fewer babies arrive and the date falls down the ranking. Each bar is the average rank of the years it landed on that day.

#118
Mon
#34
Tue
#53
Wed
#61
Thu
#60
Fri
#264
Sat
#311
Sun
Most common year
2023#10 of 365Tuesday · 11,772 births
Rarest year
1971#335 of 365Sunday · 8,474 births
Weekend years
16 of 5629% of the record2021 was the most recent
Around the world

July 11 in other countries

July 11 is the 49th most common birthday in the United States. It is among the 50 most common in 10 of the 26 other countries, and ranges from #15 in Hungary to #261 in New Zealand.

  1. Hungary

    #15 of 366

    349 births on an average July 11

    KSH, 1970–⁠2020
  2. Norway

    #17 of 366

    171 births on an average July 11

    SSB, 2011–⁠2025
  3. Germany

    #24 of 366

    2,243 births on an average July 11

    Destatis, 2014–⁠2025
  4. England & Wales

    #32 of 366

    1,851 births on an average July 11

    ONS, 1995–⁠2025
  5. France

    #39 of 366

    2,242 births on an average July 11

    INSEE, 1998–⁠2024
  6. Ecuador

    #40 of 366

    799 births on an average July 11

    INEC, 2013–⁠2023
  7. Latvia

    #40 of 366

    58 births on an average July 11

    CSB, 1996–⁠2025
  8. Finland

    #43 of 366

    149 births on an average July 11

    Statistics Finland, 2010–⁠2025
  9. Switzerland

    #48 of 366

    231 births on an average July 11

    FSO, 1969–⁠2025
  10. Netherlands

    #50 of 366

    525 births on an average July 11

    CBS, 1995–⁠2025
  11. Ireland

    #64 of 366

    173 births on an average July 11

    CSO, 1980–⁠2023
  12. Portugal

    #73 of 366

    305 births on an average July 11

    INE Portugal, 1980–⁠2025
  13. Japan

    #79 of 366

    2,874 births on an average July 11

    e-Stat, 1996–⁠2025
  14. Slovenia

    #81 of 366

    56 births on an average July 11

    SURS, 2000–⁠2025
  15. Denmark

    #96 of 366

    173 births on an average July 11

    Statistics Denmark, 2007–⁠2025
  16. Malaysia

    #140 of 366

    1,407 births on an average July 11

    DOSM, 2000–⁠2022
  17. Mexico

    #158 of 366

    5,074 births on an average July 11

    INEGI, 2017–⁠2023
  18. Argentina

    #179 of 366

    1,515 births on an average July 11

    DEIS, 2018–⁠2023
  19. Peru

    #179 of 366

    1,203 births on an average July 11

    INEI, 2019–⁠2025
  20. Costa Rica

    #180 of 366

    167 births on an average July 11

    INEC Costa Rica, 2014–⁠2024
  21. Brazil

    #190 of 366

    7,975 births on an average July 11

    DATASUS, 1997–⁠2024
  22. Guatemala

    #210 of 366

    940 births on an average July 11

    INE Guatemala, 2018–⁠2024
  23. Chile

    #216 of 366

    685 births on an average July 11

    DEIS, 1990–⁠2017
  24. Belgium

    #227 of 366

    323 births on an average July 11

    Statbel, 1992–⁠2025
  25. Philippines

    #231 of 366

    4,363 births on an average July 11

    PSA, 2006–⁠2024
  26. New Zealand

    #261 of 366

    155 births on an average July 11

    Stats NZ, 1980–⁠2023
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July against the other eleven

July 11 is the 9th 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 11 is the 6th 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 11#49 of 36611,404 births a year

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Questions

Quick answers

How many babies are born on July 11?

About 11,404 a year in the United States. It was at its most common in 2023, when 11,772 babies were born and it ranked #10 of 365; at its rarest in 1971, with 8,474 births at #335.

Is July 11 a common birthday?

In the United States, July 11 is the 49th most common of 366 dates, with about 11,404 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. 49 other dates are within 1% of July 11's count, spread from #31 to #80, 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 11 rarer in other countries?

In some. It is rarer in 17 of the 26 other countries we hold daily records for. It is at its rarest in New Zealand, at #261 of 366, and at its most common in Hungary, at #15.

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