Is July 5 a rare birthday? Rare
Rarer than 95% of all 366 dates.
July 5 in numbers
The odds, the star sign and the other dates that come with it.
Where July 5 ranks
From most common birthday to rarest, July 5 ranks in position #349, with 10,294 births a year. 348 other dates are more common. 15 dates are within 1% of its count, anywhere from #334 to #349, so the exact position is a close thing.
July 5 through the years
Where it ranked in the United States, year by year.
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July 5 in other countries
July 5 is the 18th rarest birthday in the United States. It is among the 50 rarest in 1 of the 26 other countries, and ranges from #3 in Norway to #339 in Costa Rica.
Norway
#3 of 366
177 births on an average July 5
SSB, 2011–2025Switzerland
#10 of 366
234 births on an average July 5
FSO, 1969–2025Latvia
#13 of 366
60 births on an average July 5
CSB, 1996–2025Slovenia
#15 of 366
59 births on an average July 5
SURS, 2000–2025Netherlands
#27 of 366
528 births on an average July 5
CBS, 1995–2025Ireland
#47 of 366
174 births on an average July 5
CSO, 1980–2023France
#50 of 366
2,229 births on an average July 5
INSEE, 1998–2024Denmark
#52 of 366
176 births on an average July 5
Statistics Denmark, 2007–2025Argentina
#54 of 366
1,665 births on an average July 5
DEIS, 2018–2023Germany
#55 of 366
2,195 births on an average July 5
Destatis, 2014–2025Guatemala
#59 of 366
986 births on an average July 5
INE Guatemala, 2018–2024Hungary
#62 of 366
341 births on an average July 5
KSH, 1970–2020Finland
#65 of 366
148 births on an average July 5
Statistics Finland, 2010–2025England & Wales
#85 of 366
1,821 births on an average July 5
ONS, 1995–2025Belgium
#97 of 366
334 births on an average July 5
Statbel, 1992–2025Japan
#107 of 366
2,839 births on an average July 5
e-Stat, 1996–2025Malaysia
#136 of 366
1,407 births on an average July 5
DOSM, 2000–2022Mexico
#151 of 366
5,083 births on an average July 5
INEGI, 2017–2023Brazil
#159 of 366
8,084 births on an average July 5
DATASUS, 1997–2024Peru
#165 of 366
1,207 births on an average July 5
INEI, 2019–2025Ecuador
#170 of 366
766 births on an average July 5
INEC, 2013–2023Portugal
#194 of 366
297 births on an average July 5
INE Portugal, 1980–2025Chile
#218 of 366
685 births on an average July 5
DEIS, 1990–2017New Zealand
#244 of 366
156 births on an average July 5
Stats NZ, 1980–2023Philippines
#252 of 366
4,328 births on an average July 5
PSA, 2006–2024Costa Rica
#339 of 366
157 births on an average July 5
INEC Costa Rica, 2014–2024
Famous people born on July 5
Ranked by how often people looked them up on Wikipedia last year.
Shohei OhtaniJapanese baseball player · born 1994
SombrAmerican singer and songwriter · born 2005
Edie FalcoAmerican actress · born 1963
RZAAmerican rapper and record producer · born 1969
P. T. BarnumAmerican showman and politician · born 1810
François ArnaudCanadian actor · born 1985
Michael StuhlbargAmerican actor · born 1968
Ji Chang-wookSouth Korean actor and singer · born 1987July against the other eleven
July 5 is the 2nd 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 5?
About 10,294 a year in the United States. It was at its most common in 1990, when 12,626 babies were born and it ranked #66 of 365; at its rarest in 2015, with 7,164 births at #358.
Is July 5 a common birthday?
In the United States, July 5 is the 18th rarest of 366 dates, with about 10,294 births a year. That puts it on the rarer side of the calendar.
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. 15 other dates are within 1% of July 5's count, spread from #334 to #349, 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 5 rarer in other countries?
No. July 5 is more common in all 26 other countries we hold daily records for than it is in the United States. It is at its rarest in Costa Rica, at #339 of 366, and at its most common in Norway, at #3.
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