Is July 30 a rare birthday? Popular

More common than 75% of all 366 dates.

July 30 #91
Most commonSeptember 9RarestDecember 25
Cartoon birthday scene for July 30: a child behind a cake whose candles spell the date
At a glance

July 30 in numbers

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

Born each year≈ 11,233in the United States — about 970,000 of them are alive today
In a full stadium142 peopleof 50,000 were born on July 30
On the day itselfEvery 8 secondsa baby is born on July 30 somewhere in the United States
Star signLeorarer than 28 of the 31 Leo birthdays
Half-birthdayJanuary 30six months later, to the day
Conceived aroundNovember 6Right around Halloween.
Birth frequency by rank

Where July 30 ranks

From most common birthday to rarest, July 30 ranks in position #91, with 11,233 births a year. 275 other dates are rarer. 40 dates are within 1% of its count, anywhere from #64 to #104, so the exact position is a close thing.

56 years of records

July 30 through the years

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

Fell on a weekdayOn a weekend
rarestmost
common
1969, Wednesday: rank #67 of 365, 10,634 births1970, Thursday: rank #67 of 365, 11,056 births1971, Friday: rank #49 of 365, 10,572 births1972, Sunday: rank #340 of 366, 7,710 births1973, Monday: rank #72 of 365, 9,225 births1974, Tuesday: rank #28 of 365, 9,821 births1975, Wednesday: rank #59 of 365, 9,389 births1976, Friday: rank #30 of 366, 9,685 births1977, Saturday: rank #256 of 365, 8,817 births1978, Sunday: rank #278 of 365, 8,494 births1979, Monday: rank #56 of 365, 10,534 births1980, Wednesday: rank #21 of 366, 11,126 births1981, Thursday: rank #58 of 365, 11,000 births1982, Friday: rank #52 of 365, 11,116 births1983, Saturday: rank #265 of 365, 9,164 births1984, Monday: rank #87 of 366, 10,782 births1985, Tuesday: rank #23 of 365, 11,707 births1986, Wednesday: rank #52 of 365, 11,418 births1987, Thursday: rank #44 of 365, 11,614 births1988, Saturday: rank #253 of 366, 10,185 births1989, Sunday: rank #281 of 365, 9,529 births1990, Monday: rank #114 of 365, 12,274 births1991, Tuesday: rank #30 of 365, 12,860 births1992, Thursday: rank #38 of 366, 12,526 births1993, Friday: rank #23 of 365, 12,627 births1994, Saturday: rank #264 of 365, 9,340 births1995, Sunday: rank #317 of 365, 8,384 births1996, Tuesday: rank #22 of 366, 12,519 births1997, Wednesday: rank #39 of 365, 12,356 births1998, Thursday: rank #62 of 365, 12,375 births1999, Friday: rank #61 of 365, 12,537 births2000, Sunday: rank #314 of 366, 8,289 births2001, Monday: rank #204 of 365, 11,912 births2002, Tuesday: rank #19 of 365, 13,342 births2003, Wednesday: rank #42 of 365, 13,295 births2004, Friday: rank #118 of 366, 12,728 births2005, Saturday: rank #264 of 365, 8,828 births2006, Sunday: rank #320 of 365, 8,014 births2007, Monday: rank #159 of 365, 13,224 births2008, Wednesday: rank #54 of 366, 13,637 births2009, Thursday: rank #55 of 365, 13,358 births2010, Friday: rank #180 of 365, 12,167 births2011, Saturday: rank #271 of 365, 8,267 births2012, Monday: rank #155 of 366, 11,941 births2013, Tuesday: rank #46 of 365, 12,735 births2014, Wednesday: rank #67 of 365, 12,665 births2015, Thursday: rank #42 of 365, 12,797 births2016, Saturday: rank #267 of 366, 8,626 births2017, Sunday: rank #321 of 365, 7,471 births2018, Monday: rank #162 of 365, 11,440 births2019, Tuesday: rank #33 of 365, 12,238 births2020, Thursday: rank #36 of 366, 11,645 births2021, Friday: rank #95 of 365, 11,470 births2022, Saturday: rank #261 of 365, 8,477 births2023, Sunday: rank #330 of 365, 6,959 births2024, Tuesday: rank #46 of 366, 11,553 births1970198019902000201020202024

On a weekend it slips to #288, from #67 on a working day

Inductions and planned caesareans are booked on working days, so 27.7% fewer babies arrive and the date falls down the ranking. Each bar is the average rank of the years it landed on that day.

#126
Mon
#31
Tue
#50
Wed
#50
Thu
#76
Fri
#263
Sat
#313
Sun
Most common year
2002#19 of 365Tuesday · 13,342 births
Rarest year
1972#340 of 366Sunday · 7,710 births
Weekend years
16 of 5629% of the record2023 was the most recent
Around the world

July 30 in other countries

July 30 is the 91st most common birthday in the United States. It is among the 50 most common in 5 of the 26 other countries, and ranges from #11 in Hungary to #324 in Chile.

  1. Hungary

    #11 of 366

    351 births on an average July 30

    KSH, 1970–⁠2020
  2. Denmark

    #16 of 366

    180 births on an average July 30

    Statistics Denmark, 2007–⁠2025
  3. Slovenia

    #25 of 366

    58 births on an average July 30

    SURS, 2000–⁠2025
  4. Belgium

    #35 of 366

    341 births on an average July 30

    Statbel, 1992–⁠2025
  5. France

    #42 of 366

    2,238 births on an average July 30

    INSEE, 1998–⁠2024
  6. Netherlands

    #56 of 366

    524 births on an average July 30

    CBS, 1995–⁠2025
  7. Finland

    #60 of 366

    148 births on an average July 30

    Statistics Finland, 2010–⁠2025
  8. Japan

    #69 of 366

    2,888 births on an average July 30

    e-Stat, 1996–⁠2025
  9. Germany

    #73 of 366

    2,172 births on an average July 30

    Destatis, 2014–⁠2025
  10. England & Wales

    #84 of 366

    1,822 births on an average July 30

    ONS, 1995–⁠2025
  11. Portugal

    #86 of 366

    303 births on an average July 30

    INE Portugal, 1980–⁠2025
  12. Latvia

    #87 of 366

    56 births on an average July 30

    CSB, 1996–⁠2025
  13. Switzerland

    #87 of 366

    228 births on an average July 30

    FSO, 1969–⁠2025
  14. Ireland

    #99 of 366

    171 births on an average July 30

    CSO, 1980–⁠2023
  15. Norway

    #112 of 366

    162 births on an average July 30

    SSB, 2011–⁠2025
  16. New Zealand

    #164 of 366

    158 births on an average July 30

    Stats NZ, 1980–⁠2023
  17. Ecuador

    #232 of 366

    753 births on an average July 30

    INEC, 2013–⁠2023
  18. Mexico

    #234 of 366

    4,914 births on an average July 30

    INEGI, 2017–⁠2023
  19. Philippines

    #238 of 366

    4,348 births on an average July 30

    PSA, 2006–⁠2024
  20. Brazil

    #246 of 366

    7,781 births on an average July 30

    DATASUS, 1997–⁠2024
  21. Costa Rica

    #267 of 366

    163 births on an average July 30

    INEC Costa Rica, 2014–⁠2024
  22. Guatemala

    #269 of 366

    923 births on an average July 30

    INE Guatemala, 2018–⁠2024
  23. Argentina

    #289 of 366

    1,408 births on an average July 30

    DEIS, 2018–⁠2023
  24. Malaysia

    #295 of 366

    1,364 births on an average July 30

    DOSM, 2000–⁠2022
  25. Peru

    #302 of 366

    1,142 births on an average July 30

    INEI, 2019–⁠2025
  26. Chile

    #324 of 366

    669 births on an average July 30

    DEIS, 1990–⁠2017
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July against the other eleven

July 30 is the 6th 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.

July 30 is the 2nd rarest 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 30#91 of 36611,233 births a year

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Questions

Quick answers

How many babies are born on July 30?

About 11,233 a year in the United States. It was at its most common in 2002, when 13,342 babies were born and it ranked #19 of 365; at its rarest in 1972, with 7,710 births at #340.

Is July 30 a common birthday?

In the United States, July 30 is the 91st most common of 366 dates, with about 11,233 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. 40 other dates are within 1% of July 30's count, spread from #64 to #104, 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 30 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 Chile, at #324 of 366, and at its most common in Hungary, at #11.

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