Is July 3 a rare birthday? Ordinary
More common than 66% of all 366 dates.
July 3 in numbers
The odds, the star sign and the other dates that come with it.
Where July 3 ranks
From most common birthday to rarest, July 3 ranks in position #126, with 10,980 births a year. 240 other dates are rarer. 46 dates are within 1% of its count, anywhere from #111 to #157, so the exact position is a close thing.
July 3 through the years
Where it ranked in the United States, year by year.
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July 3 in other countries
July 3 is the 126th most common birthday in the United States. It is among the 50 most common in 4 of the 26 other countries, and ranges from #32 in Switzerland to #290 in New Zealand.
Switzerland
#32 of 366
232 births on an average July 3
FSO, 1969–2025Norway
#39 of 366
169 births on an average July 3
SSB, 2011–2025Hungary
#41 of 366
345 births on an average July 3
KSH, 1970–2020Latvia
#46 of 366
57 births on an average July 3
CSB, 1996–2025Germany
#51 of 366
2,198 births on an average July 3
Destatis, 2014–2025England & Wales
#54 of 366
1,835 births on an average July 3
ONS, 1995–2025Netherlands
#64 of 366
522 births on an average July 3
CBS, 1995–2025Slovenia
#75 of 366
56 births on an average July 3
SURS, 2000–2025Portugal
#80 of 366
304 births on an average July 3
INE Portugal, 1980–2025Japan
#87 of 366
2,866 births on an average July 3
e-Stat, 1996–2025Denmark
#88 of 366
173 births on an average July 3
Statistics Denmark, 2007–2025Belgium
#95 of 366
334 births on an average July 3
Statbel, 1992–2025France
#95 of 366
2,199 births on an average July 3
INSEE, 1998–2024Ireland
#103 of 366
171 births on an average July 3
CSO, 1980–2023Finland
#106 of 366
145 births on an average July 3
Statistics Finland, 2010–2025Malaysia
#119 of 366
1,412 births on an average July 3
DOSM, 2000–2022Ecuador
#143 of 366
773 births on an average July 3
INEC, 2013–2023Brazil
#162 of 366
8,064 births on an average July 3
DATASUS, 1997–2024Argentina
#184 of 366
1,508 births on an average July 3
DEIS, 2018–2023Costa Rica
#193 of 366
167 births on an average July 3
INEC Costa Rica, 2014–2024Peru
#202 of 366
1,194 births on an average July 3
INEI, 2019–2025Mexico
#223 of 366
4,931 births on an average July 3
INEGI, 2017–2023Philippines
#235 of 366
4,355 births on an average July 3
PSA, 2006–2024Guatemala
#238 of 366
932 births on an average July 3
INE Guatemala, 2018–2024Chile
#248 of 366
682 births on an average July 3
DEIS, 1990–2017New Zealand
#290 of 366
154 births on an average July 3
Stats NZ, 1980–2023
Famous people born on July 3
Ranked by how often people looked them up on Wikipedia last year.
Tom CruiseAmerican actor and film producer · born 1962
Olivia MunnAmerican actress · born 1980
Franz KafkaAustrian and Czech writer · born 1883
Connie NielsenDanish actress · born 1965
Patrick WilsonAmerican actor · born 1973
Julian AssangeAustralian WikiLeaks editor · born 1971
Sebastian VettelGerman racing driver · born 1987
Laura BraniganAmerican singer · born 1952July against the other eleven
July 3 is the 3rd 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 3?
About 10,980 a year in the United States. It was at its most common in 1973, when 9,829 babies were born and it ranked #6 of 365; at its rarest in 1977, with 7,861 births at #332.
Is July 3 a common birthday?
In the United States, July 3 is the 126th most common of 366 dates, with about 10,980 births a year. That makes it an ordinary birthday: neither rare nor especially common.
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. 46 other dates are within 1% of July 3's count, spread from #111 to #157, 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 3 rarer in other countries?
In some. It is rarer in 10 of the 26 other countries we hold daily records for. It is at its rarest in New Zealand, at #290 of 366, and at its most common in Switzerland, at #32.
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