Is July 7 a rare birthday? Very common
More common than 99% of all 366 dates.
July 7 in numbers
The odds, the star sign and the other dates that come with it.
Where July 7 ranks
From most common birthday to rarest, July 7 ranks in position #5, with 11,784 births a year. 361 other dates are rarer. 12 dates are within 1% of its count, anywhere from #1 to #13, so the exact position is a close thing.
July 7 through the years
Where it ranked in the United States, year by year.
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July 7 in other countries
July 7 is the 5th most common birthday in the United States. It is among the 50 most common in 11 of the 26 other countries, and ranges from #2 in Germany to #284 in Guatemala.
Germany
#2 of 366
2,308 births on an average July 7
Destatis, 2014–2025Latvia
#3 of 366
62 births on an average July 7
CSB, 1996–2025Switzerland
#9 of 366
235 births on an average July 7
FSO, 1969–2025Japan
#11 of 366
3,034 births on an average July 7
e-Stat, 1996–2025Hungary
#16 of 366
349 births on an average July 7
KSH, 1970–2020Belgium
#20 of 366
346 births on an average July 7
Statbel, 1992–2025France
#27 of 366
2,253 births on an average July 7
INSEE, 1998–2024Norway
#28 of 366
171 births on an average July 7
SSB, 2011–2025Netherlands
#32 of 366
527 births on an average July 7
CBS, 1995–2025Portugal
#42 of 366
309 births on an average July 7
INE Portugal, 1980–2025Slovenia
#47 of 366
57 births on an average July 7
SURS, 2000–2025England & Wales
#52 of 366
1,836 births on an average July 7
ONS, 1995–2025Denmark
#58 of 366
175 births on an average July 7
Statistics Denmark, 2007–2025Finland
#61 of 366
148 births on an average July 7
Statistics Finland, 2010–2025Ireland
#62 of 366
173 births on an average July 7
CSO, 1980–2023New Zealand
#79 of 366
160 births on an average July 7
Stats NZ, 1980–2023Malaysia
#83 of 366
1,433 births on an average July 7
DOSM, 2000–2022Ecuador
#100 of 366
784 births on an average July 7
INEC, 2013–2023Brazil
#115 of 366
8,235 births on an average July 7
DATASUS, 1997–2024Mexico
#143 of 366
5,111 births on an average July 7
INEGI, 2017–2023Argentina
#171 of 366
1,521 births on an average July 7
DEIS, 2018–2023Chile
#184 of 366
689 births on an average July 7
DEIS, 1990–2017Philippines
#195 of 366
4,412 births on an average July 7
PSA, 2006–2024Costa Rica
#209 of 366
165 births on an average July 7
INEC Costa Rica, 2014–2024Peru
#243 of 366
1,172 births on an average July 7
INEI, 2019–2025Guatemala
#284 of 366
917 births on an average July 7
INE Guatemala, 2018–2024
Famous people born on July 7
Ranked by how often people looked them up on Wikipedia last year.
Ringo StarrEnglish musician and actor · born 1940
MS DhoniIndian cricketer · born 1981
Shelley DuvallAmerican actress and producer · born 1949
Ana KasparianAmerican political commentator · born 1986
Hamish LinklaterAmerican actor and playwright · born 1976
Cree SummerAmerican-Canadian actress and singer · born 1969
Billy CampbellAmerican actor · born 1959
Robert A. HeinleinAmerican author and engineer · born 1907July against the other eleven
July 7 is the 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.
Quick answers
How many babies are born on July 7?
About 11,784 a year in the United States. It was at its most common in 1993, when 13,122 babies were born and it ranked #1 of 365; at its rarest in 2024, with 6,949 births at #334.
Is July 7 a common birthday?
In the United States, July 7 is the 5th most common of 366 dates, with about 11,784 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. 12 other dates are within 1% of July 7's count, spread from #1 to #13, 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 7 rarer in other countries?
In some. It is rarer in 24 of the 26 other countries we hold daily records for. It is at its rarest in Guatemala, at #284 of 366, and at its most common in Germany, at #2.
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