Is July 27 a rare birthday? Popular

More common than 88% of all 366 dates.

July 27 #44
Most commonSeptember 9RarestDecember 25
Cartoon birthday scene for July 27: a child behind a cake whose candles spell the date
At a glance

July 27 in numbers

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

Born each year≈ 11,430in the United States — about 981,000 of them are alive today
In a full stadium144 peopleof 50,000 were born on July 27
On the day itselfEvery 8 secondsa baby is born on July 27 somewhere in the United States
Star signLeomore common than 22 of the 31 Leo birthdays
Half-birthdayJanuary 27six months later, to the day
Conceived aroundNovember 3Right around Halloween.
Birth frequency by rank

Where July 27 ranks

From most common birthday to rarest, July 27 ranks in position #44, with 11,430 births a year. 322 other dates are rarer. 52 dates are within 1% of its count, anywhere from #24 to #76, so the exact position is a close thing.

56 years of records

July 27 through the years

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

Fell on a weekdayOn a weekend
rarestmost
common
1969, Sunday: rank #266 of 365, 9,408 births1970, Monday: rank #68 of 365, 11,052 births1971, Tuesday: rank #28 of 365, 10,786 births1972, Thursday: rank #82 of 366, 9,493 births1973, Friday: rank #42 of 365, 9,416 births1974, Saturday: rank #239 of 365, 8,492 births1975, Sunday: rank #282 of 365, 7,952 births1976, Tuesday: rank #31 of 366, 9,684 births1977, Wednesday: rank #87 of 365, 9,688 births1978, Thursday: rank #36 of 365, 10,206 births1979, Friday: rank #26 of 365, 10,800 births1980, Sunday: rank #277 of 366, 9,139 births1981, Monday: rank #67 of 365, 10,893 births1982, Tuesday: rank #20 of 365, 11,474 births1983, Wednesday: rank #58 of 365, 10,839 births1984, Friday: rank #44 of 366, 11,320 births1985, Saturday: rank #263 of 365, 9,441 births1986, Sunday: rank #282 of 365, 8,959 births1987, Monday: rank #45 of 365, 11,604 births1988, Wednesday: rank #39 of 366, 12,164 births1989, Thursday: rank #23 of 365, 12,791 births1990, Friday: rank #25 of 365, 13,069 births1991, Saturday: rank #272 of 365, 9,815 births1992, Monday: rank #103 of 366, 12,101 births1993, Tuesday: rank #8 of 365, 12,845 births1994, Wednesday: rank #35 of 365, 12,423 births1995, Thursday: rank #47 of 365, 12,309 births1996, Saturday: rank #271 of 366, 9,012 births1997, Sunday: rank #312 of 365, 8,213 births1998, Monday: rank #205 of 365, 11,350 births1999, Tuesday: rank #21 of 365, 12,903 births2000, Thursday: rank #45 of 366, 12,849 births2001, Friday: rank #97 of 365, 12,441 births2002, Saturday: rank #267 of 365, 8,924 births2003, Sunday: rank #323 of 365, 7,740 births2004, Tuesday: rank #33 of 366, 13,265 births2005, Wednesday: rank #62 of 365, 13,308 births2006, Thursday: rank #40 of 365, 14,078 births2007, Friday: rank #40 of 365, 14,182 births2008, Sunday: rank #318 of 366, 7,852 births2009, Monday: rank #178 of 365, 12,562 births2010, Tuesday: rank #25 of 365, 13,117 births2011, Wednesday: rank #53 of 365, 12,856 births2012, Friday: rank #64 of 366, 12,662 births2013, Saturday: rank #274 of 365, 8,273 births2014, Sunday: rank #314 of 365, 7,793 births2015, Monday: rank #81 of 365, 12,416 births2016, Wednesday: rank #35 of 366, 12,748 births2017, Thursday: rank #43 of 365, 12,435 births2018, Friday: rank #52 of 365, 12,075 births2019, Saturday: rank #263 of 365, 8,414 births2020, Monday: rank #112 of 366, 11,116 births2021, Tuesday: rank #28 of 365, 11,989 births2022, Wednesday: rank #33 of 365, 11,898 births2023, Thursday: rank #56 of 365, 11,425 births2024, Saturday: rank #267 of 366, 8,246 births1970198019902000201020202024

On a weekend it slips to #281, from #55 on a working day

Inductions and planned caesareans are booked on working days, so 27.8% fewer babies arrive and the date falls down the ranking. Each bar is the average rank of the years it landed on that day.

#107
Mon
#24
Tue
#50
Wed
#47
Thu
#49
Fri
#265
Sat
#297
Sun
Most common year
1993#8 of 365Tuesday · 12,845 births
Rarest year
2003#323 of 365Sunday · 7,740 births
Weekend years
16 of 5629% of the record2024 was the most recent
Around the world

July 27 in other countries

July 27 is the 44th most common birthday in the United States. It is among the 50 most common in 8 of the 26 other countries, and ranges from #12 in France to #321 in Chile.

  1. France

    #12 of 366

    2,268 births on an average July 27

    INSEE, 1998–⁠2024
  2. Belgium

    #16 of 366

    347 births on an average July 27

    Statbel, 1992–⁠2025
  3. Latvia

    #17 of 366

    59 births on an average July 27

    CSB, 1996–⁠2025
  4. Slovenia

    #22 of 366

    58 births on an average July 27

    SURS, 2000–⁠2025
  5. Netherlands

    #31 of 366

    527 births on an average July 27

    CBS, 1995–⁠2025
  6. Denmark

    #36 of 366

    177 births on an average July 27

    Statistics Denmark, 2007–⁠2025
  7. Germany

    #43 of 366

    2,210 births on an average July 27

    Destatis, 2014–⁠2025
  8. Ireland

    #50 of 366

    174 births on an average July 27

    CSO, 1980–⁠2023
  9. Norway

    #56 of 366

    167 births on an average July 27

    SSB, 2011–⁠2025
  10. Finland

    #57 of 366

    148 births on an average July 27

    Statistics Finland, 2010–⁠2025
  11. Hungary

    #58 of 366

    341 births on an average July 27

    KSH, 1970–⁠2020
  12. Switzerland

    #59 of 366

    230 births on an average July 27

    FSO, 1969–⁠2025
  13. Mexico

    #69 of 366

    5,372 births on an average July 27

    INEGI, 2017–⁠2023
  14. England & Wales

    #72 of 366

    1,827 births on an average July 27

    ONS, 1995–⁠2025
  15. Portugal

    #81 of 366

    304 births on an average July 27

    INE Portugal, 1980–⁠2025
  16. Japan

    #84 of 366

    2,869 births on an average July 27

    e-Stat, 1996–⁠2025
  17. Ecuador

    #87 of 366

    787 births on an average July 27

    INEC, 2013–⁠2023
  18. New Zealand

    #93 of 366

    160 births on an average July 27

    Stats NZ, 1980–⁠2023
  19. Argentina

    #145 of 366

    1,551 births on an average July 27

    DEIS, 2018–⁠2023
  20. Costa Rica

    #147 of 366

    170 births on an average July 27

    INEC Costa Rica, 2014–⁠2024
  21. Malaysia

    #159 of 366

    1,402 births on an average July 27

    DOSM, 2000–⁠2022
  22. Guatemala

    #184 of 366

    947 births on an average July 27

    INE Guatemala, 2018–⁠2024
  23. Philippines

    #191 of 366

    4,418 births on an average July 27

    PSA, 2006–⁠2024
  24. Peru

    #207 of 366

    1,192 births on an average July 27

    INEI, 2019–⁠2025
  25. Brazil

    #222 of 366

    7,858 births on an average July 27

    DATASUS, 1997–⁠2024
  26. Chile

    #321 of 366

    670 births on an average July 27

    DEIS, 1990–⁠2017
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July against the other eleven

July 27 is the 6th 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 27 is the 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 27#44 of 36611,430 births a year

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Questions

Quick answers

How many babies are born on July 27?

About 11,430 a year in the United States. It was at its most common in 1993, when 12,845 babies were born and it ranked #8 of 365; at its rarest in 2003, with 7,740 births at #323.

Is July 27 a common birthday?

In the United States, July 27 is the 44th most common of 366 dates, with about 11,430 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. 52 other dates are within 1% of July 27's count, spread from #24 to #76, 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 27 rarer in other countries?

In some. It is rarer in 19 of the 26 other countries we hold daily records for. It is at its rarest in Chile, at #321 of 366, and at its most common in France, at #12.

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