Is July 12 a rare birthday? Popular
More common than 82% of all 366 dates.
July 12 in numbers
The odds, the star sign and the other dates that come with it.
Where July 12 ranks
From most common birthday to rarest, July 12 ranks in position #68, with 11,333 births a year. 298 other dates are rarer. 53 dates are within 1% of its count, anywhere from #41 to #94, so the exact position is a close thing.
July 12 through the years
Where it ranked in the United States, year by year.
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July 12 in other countries
July 12 is the 68th most common birthday in the United States. It is among the 50 most common in 8 of the 26 other countries, and ranges from #3 in France to #350 in New Zealand.
France
#3 of 366
2,283 births on an average July 12
INSEE, 1998–2024Norway
#6 of 366
174 births on an average July 12
SSB, 2011–2025Hungary
#9 of 366
352 births on an average July 12
KSH, 1970–2020Denmark
#20 of 366
179 births on an average July 12
Statistics Denmark, 2007–2025Finland
#27 of 366
150 births on an average July 12
Statistics Finland, 2010–2025England & Wales
#39 of 366
1,846 births on an average July 12
ONS, 1995–2025Belgium
#41 of 366
341 births on an average July 12
Statbel, 1992–2025Switzerland
#41 of 366
231 births on an average July 12
FSO, 1969–2025Netherlands
#57 of 366
524 births on an average July 12
CBS, 1995–2025Portugal
#62 of 366
306 births on an average July 12
INE Portugal, 1980–2025Ireland
#67 of 366
173 births on an average July 12
CSO, 1980–2023Latvia
#67 of 366
57 births on an average July 12
CSB, 1996–2025Germany
#68 of 366
2,178 births on an average July 12
Destatis, 2014–2025Argentina
#77 of 366
1,624 births on an average July 12
DEIS, 2018–2023Guatemala
#92 of 366
972 births on an average July 12
INE Guatemala, 2018–2024Japan
#95 of 366
2,857 births on an average July 12
e-Stat, 1996–2025Slovenia
#101 of 366
55 births on an average July 12
SURS, 2000–2025Ecuador
#112 of 366
781 births on an average July 12
INEC, 2013–2023Mexico
#116 of 366
5,181 births on an average July 12
INEGI, 2017–2023Malaysia
#122 of 366
1,412 births on an average July 12
DOSM, 2000–2022Brazil
#173 of 366
8,039 births on an average July 12
DATASUS, 1997–2024Chile
#188 of 366
688 births on an average July 12
DEIS, 1990–2017Philippines
#208 of 366
4,399 births on an average July 12
PSA, 2006–2024Peru
#232 of 366
1,180 births on an average July 12
INEI, 2019–2025Costa Rica
#330 of 366
158 births on an average July 12
INEC Costa Rica, 2014–2024New Zealand
#350 of 366
152 births on an average July 12
Stats NZ, 1980–2023
Famous people born on July 12
Ranked by how often people looked them up on Wikipedia last year.
Shai Gilgeous-AlexanderCanadian basketball player · born 1998
Rachel BrosnahanAmerican actress · born 1990
Julius CaesarRoman general and dictator (100–44 BC) · born -100
Lee Byung-hunSouth Korean actor · born 1970
Bill CosbyAmerican entertainer · born 1937
Malala YousafzaiPakistani education activist · born 1997
Brock LesnarAmerican wrestler & mixed martial artist · born 1977
Vinícius JúniorBrazilian footballer · born 2000July against the other eleven
July 12 is the 13th rarest 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 12?
About 11,333 a year in the United States. It was at its most common in 1983, when 11,254 babies were born and it ranked #7 of 365; at its rarest in 1992, with 8,921 births at #323.
Is July 12 a common birthday?
In the United States, July 12 is the 68th most common of 366 dates, with about 11,333 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. 53 other dates are within 1% of July 12's count, spread from #41 to #94, 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 12 rarer in other countries?
In some. It is rarer in 13 of the 26 other countries we hold daily records for. It is at its rarest in New Zealand, at #350 of 366, and at its most common in France, at #3.
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