Is July 24 a rare birthday? Popular

More common than 80% of all 366 dates.

July 24 #74
Most commonSeptember 9RarestDecember 25
Cartoon birthday scene for July 24: a child behind a cake whose candles spell the date
At a glance

July 24 in numbers

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

Born each year≈ 11,318in the United States — about 972,000 of them are alive today
In a full stadium143 peopleof 50,000 were born on July 24
On the day itselfEvery 8 secondsa baby is born on July 24 somewhere in the United States
Star signLeorarer than 20 of the 31 Leo birthdays
Half-birthdayJanuary 24six months later, to the day
Conceived aroundOctober 31Right around Halloween.
Birth frequency by rank

Where July 24 ranks

From most common birthday to rarest, July 24 ranks in position #74, with 11,318 births a year. 292 other dates are rarer. 51 dates are within 1% of its count, anywhere from #44 to #95, so the exact position is a close thing.

July 24#74 · 11,318 a year11,9006,546#1#366
56 years of records

July 24 through the years

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

Fell on a weekdayOn a weekend
rarestmost
common
1969, Thursday: rank #93 of 365, 10,430 births1970, Friday: rank #80 of 365, 10,956 births1971, Saturday: rank #259 of 365, 9,454 births1972, Monday: rank #85 of 366, 9,485 births1973, Tuesday: rank #34 of 365, 9,450 births1974, Wednesday: rank #80 of 365, 9,327 births1975, Thursday: rank #36 of 365, 9,498 births1976, Saturday: rank #241 of 366, 8,462 births1977, Sunday: rank #291 of 365, 8,186 births1978, Monday: rank #65 of 365, 9,977 births1979, Tuesday: rank #19 of 365, 10,851 births1980, Thursday: rank #77 of 366, 10,615 births1981, Friday: rank #57 of 365, 11,010 births1982, Saturday: rank #257 of 365, 9,608 births1983, Sunday: rank #278 of 365, 8,993 births1984, Tuesday: rank #9 of 366, 11,811 births1985, Wednesday: rank #93 of 365, 11,100 births1986, Thursday: rank #68 of 365, 11,322 births1987, Friday: rank #30 of 365, 11,778 births1988, Sunday: rank #296 of 366, 9,129 births1989, Monday: rank #79 of 365, 12,183 births1990, Tuesday: rank #30 of 365, 12,985 births1991, Wednesday: rank #64 of 365, 12,547 births1992, Friday: rank #75 of 366, 12,205 births1993, Saturday: rank #261 of 365, 9,557 births1994, Sunday: rank #300 of 365, 8,734 births1995, Monday: rank #151 of 365, 11,501 births1996, Wednesday: rank #49 of 366, 12,214 births1997, Thursday: rank #85 of 365, 11,988 births1998, Friday: rank #74 of 365, 12,287 births1999, Saturday: rank #259 of 365, 9,258 births2000, Monday: rank #193 of 366, 11,916 births2001, Tuesday: rank #15 of 365, 13,239 births2002, Wednesday: rank #50 of 365, 12,969 births2003, Thursday: rank #35 of 365, 13,355 births2004, Saturday: rank #263 of 366, 8,900 births2005, Sunday: rank #320 of 365, 7,641 births2006, Monday: rank #169 of 365, 12,896 births2007, Tuesday: rank #20 of 365, 14,512 births2008, Thursday: rank #82 of 366, 13,427 births2009, Friday: rank #113 of 365, 12,953 births2010, Saturday: rank #270 of 365, 8,306 births2011, Sunday: rank #325 of 365, 7,272 births2012, Tuesday: rank #21 of 366, 13,202 births2013, Wednesday: rank #56 of 365, 12,660 births2014, Thursday: rank #47 of 365, 12,827 births2015, Friday: rank #56 of 365, 12,612 births2016, Sunday: rank #311 of 366, 7,821 births2017, Monday: rank #118 of 365, 11,799 births2018, Tuesday: rank #45 of 365, 12,154 births2019, Wednesday: rank #49 of 365, 12,031 births2020, Friday: rank #71 of 366, 11,334 births2021, Saturday: rank #273 of 365, 8,120 births2022, Sunday: rank #307 of 365, 7,477 births2023, Monday: rank #171 of 365, 10,765 births2024, Wednesday: rank #17 of 366, 11,799 births1970198019902000201020202024

On a weekend it slips to #282, from #69 on a working day

Inductions and planned caesareans are booked on working days, so 27.5% fewer babies arrive and the date falls down the ranking. Each bar is the average rank of the years it landed on that day.

#129
Mon
#24
Tue
#57
Wed
#65
Thu
#70
Fri
#260
Sat
#304
Sun
Most common year
1984#9 of 366Tuesday · 11,811 births
Rarest year
2011#325 of 365Sunday · 7,272 births
Weekend years
16 of 5629% of the record2022 was the most recent
Around the world

July 24 in other countries

July 24 is the 74th most common birthday in the United States. It is among the 50 most common in 10 of the 26 other countries, and ranges from #6 in Hungary to #306 in Chile.

  1. Hungary

    #6 of 366

    353 births on an average July 24

    KSH, 1970–⁠2020

  2. Belgium

    #8 of 366

    349 births on an average July 24

    Statbel, 1992–⁠2025

  3. Germany

    #13 of 366

    2,257 births on an average July 24

    Destatis, 2014–⁠2025

  4. Netherlands

    #20 of 366

    531 births on an average July 24

    CBS, 1995–⁠2025

  5. England & Wales

    #23 of 366

    1,861 births on an average July 24

    ONS, 1995–⁠2025

  6. France

    #25 of 366

    2,254 births on an average July 24

    INSEE, 1998–⁠2024

  7. Slovenia

    #28 of 366

    58 births on an average July 24

    SURS, 2000–⁠2025

  8. Denmark

    #35 of 366

    177 births on an average July 24

    Statistics Denmark, 2007–⁠2025

  9. Latvia

    #39 of 366

    58 births on an average July 24

    CSB, 1996–⁠2025

  10. Norway

    #48 of 366

    168 births on an average July 24

    SSB, 2011–⁠2025

  11. Japan

    #53 of 366

    2,919 births on an average July 24

    e-Stat, 1996–⁠2025

  12. Finland

    #68 of 366

    147 births on an average July 24

    Statistics Finland, 2010–⁠2025

  13. Ireland

    #77 of 366

    172 births on an average July 24

    CSO, 1980–⁠2023

  14. Switzerland

    #82 of 366

    228 births on an average July 24

    FSO, 1969–⁠2025

  15. Portugal

    #101 of 366

    303 births on an average July 24

    INE Portugal, 1980–⁠2025

  16. Mexico

    #119 of 366

    5,176 births on an average July 24

    INEGI, 2017–⁠2023

  17. Ecuador

    #166 of 366

    768 births on an average July 24

    INEC, 2013–⁠2023

  18. Guatemala

    #180 of 366

    947 births on an average July 24

    INE Guatemala, 2018–⁠2024

  19. Malaysia

    #182 of 366

    1,396 births on an average July 24

    DOSM, 2000–⁠2022

  20. Peru

    #209 of 366

    1,190 births on an average July 24

    INEI, 2019–⁠2025

  21. Costa Rica

    #217 of 366

    165 births on an average July 24

    INEC Costa Rica, 2014–⁠2024

  22. Philippines

    #232 of 366

    4,359 births on an average July 24

    PSA, 2006–⁠2024

  23. Argentina

    #257 of 366

    1,435 births on an average July 24

    DEIS, 2018–⁠2023

  24. Brazil

    #278 of 366

    7,654 births on an average July 24

    DATASUS, 1997–⁠2024

  25. New Zealand

    #279 of 366

    154 births on an average July 24

    Stats NZ, 1980–⁠2023

  26. Chile

    #306 of 366

    673 births on an average July 24

    DEIS, 1990–⁠2017
Birthday twins

Famous people born on July 24

Ranked by how often people looked them up on Wikipedia last year.

Jennifer LopezJennifer LopezAmerican singer-songwriter and actress · born 1969Nayib BukeleNayib BukelePresident of El Salvador since 2019 · born 1981Rose ByrneRose ByrneAustralian actress · born 1979Elisabeth MossElisabeth MossAmerican actor · born 1982Amelia EarhartAmelia EarhartAmerican aviation pioneer (1897–⁠disappeared 1937) · born 1897Cailee SpaenyCailee SpaenyAmerican actress · born 1998Kristin ChenowethKristin ChenowethAmerican actress and singer · born 1968Anna PaquinAnna PaquinNew Zealand actress · born 1982
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July against the other eleven

July 24 is the 11th 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.

10,394
Jan
10,637
Feb
10,658
Mar
10,557
Apr
10,702
May
10,990
Jun
11,238
Jul
11,405
Aug
11,448
Sep
10,872
Oct
10,616
Nov
10,633
Dec
July 23
Births a year11,314
Rank#78
July 24
Births a year11,318
Rank#74
July 25
Births a year11,400
Rank#51

July 24 is the 7th rarest of the 15 days around it

#47
17
#60
18
#69
19
#53
20
#64
21
#77
22
#78
23
#74
24
#51
25
#59
26
#44
27
#76
28
#87
29
#91
30
#92
31
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 24#74 of 36611,318 births a year

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Quick answers

How many babies are born on July 24?

About 11,318 a year in the United States. It was at its most common in 1984, when 11,811 babies were born and it ranked #9 of 366; at its rarest in 2011, with 7,272 births at #325.

Is July 24 a common birthday?

In the United States, July 24 is the 74th most common of 366 dates, with about 11,318 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. 51 other dates are within 1% of July 24's count, spread from #44 to #95, 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 24 rarer in other countries?

In some. It is rarer in 14 of the 26 other countries we hold daily records for. It is at its rarest in Chile, at #306 of 366, and at its most common in Hungary, at #6.

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