Is July 23 a rare birthday? Popular
More common than 79% of all 366 dates.
July 23 in numbers
The odds, the star sign and the other dates that come with it.
Where July 23 ranks
From most common birthday to rarest, July 23 ranks in position #78, with 11,314 births a year. 288 other dates are rarer. 50 dates are within 1% of its count, anywhere from #46 to #96, so the exact position is a close thing.
July 23 through the years
Where it ranked in the United States, year by year.
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July 23 in other countries
July 23 is the 78th most common birthday in the United States. It is among the 50 most common in 9 of the 26 other countries, and ranges from #1 in Belgium to #324 in Costa Rica.
Belgium
#1 of 366
352 births on an average July 23
Statbel, 1992–2025Latvia
#7 of 366
61 births on an average July 23
CSB, 1996–2025Hungary
#20 of 366
349 births on an average July 23
KSH, 1970–2020France
#32 of 366
2,249 births on an average July 23
INSEE, 1998–2024Japan
#34 of 366
2,945 births on an average July 23
e-Stat, 1996–2025Denmark
#42 of 366
177 births on an average July 23
Statistics Denmark, 2007–2025England & Wales
#43 of 366
1,840 births on an average July 23
ONS, 1995–2025Germany
#48 of 366
2,204 births on an average July 23
Destatis, 2014–2025Norway
#49 of 366
168 births on an average July 23
SSB, 2011–2025Netherlands
#54 of 366
524 births on an average July 23
CBS, 1995–2025Slovenia
#60 of 366
56 births on an average July 23
SURS, 2000–2025Portugal
#69 of 366
305 births on an average July 23
INE Portugal, 1980–2025Finland
#70 of 366
147 births on an average July 23
Statistics Finland, 2010–2025Ireland
#85 of 366
172 births on an average July 23
CSO, 1980–2023Switzerland
#86 of 366
228 births on an average July 23
FSO, 1969–2025Malaysia
#132 of 366
1,408 births on an average July 23
DOSM, 2000–2022Guatemala
#167 of 366
950 births on an average July 23
INE Guatemala, 2018–2024Philippines
#194 of 366
4,413 births on an average July 23
PSA, 2006–2024New Zealand
#222 of 366
156 births on an average July 23
Stats NZ, 1980–2023Mexico
#226 of 366
4,926 births on an average July 23
INEGI, 2017–2023Brazil
#236 of 366
7,820 births on an average July 23
DATASUS, 1997–2024Ecuador
#247 of 366
749 births on an average July 23
INEC, 2013–2023Peru
#249 of 366
1,171 births on an average July 23
INEI, 2019–2025Argentina
#262 of 366
1,432 births on an average July 23
DEIS, 2018–2023Chile
#304 of 366
673 births on an average July 23
DEIS, 1990–2017Costa Rica
#324 of 366
159 births on an average July 23
INEC Costa Rica, 2014–2024
Famous people born on July 23
Ranked by how often people looked them up on Wikipedia last year.
Woody HarrelsonAmerican actor · born 1961
Philip Seymour HoffmanAmerican actor · born 1967
Monica LewinskyAmerican activist · born 1973
Daniel RadcliffeEnglish actor · born 1989
Lily PhillipsEnglish pornographic film actress · born 2001
Marlon WayansAmerican actor and producer · born 1972
Kathryn HahnAmerican actress · born 1973
SlashBritish and American musician · born 1965July against the other eleven
July 23 is the 8th 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 23?
About 11,314 a year in the United States. It was at its most common in 1991, when 13,250 babies were born and it ranked #5 of 365; at its rarest in 2000, with 8,011 births at #326.
Is July 23 a common birthday?
In the United States, July 23 is the 78th most common of 366 dates, with about 11,314 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. 50 other dates are within 1% of July 23's count, spread from #46 to #96, 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 23 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 Costa Rica, at #324 of 366, and at its most common in Belgium, at #1.
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