Is June 15 a rare birthday? Ordinary

More common than 68% of all 366 dates.

June 15 #116
Most commonSeptember 9RarestDecember 25
Cartoon birthday scene for June 15: a child behind a cake whose candles spell the date
At a glance

June 15 in numbers

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

Born each year≈ 11,055in the United States — about 941,000 of them are alive today
In a full stadium139 peopleof 50,000 were born on June 15
On the day itselfEvery 8 secondsa baby is born on June 15 somewhere in the United States
Star signGeminimore common than 25 of the 31 Gemini birthdays
Half-birthdayDecember 15six months later, to the day
Conceived aroundSeptember 22A cosy autumn night, then.
Birth frequency by rank

Where June 15 ranks

From most common birthday to rarest, June 15 ranks in position #116, with 11,055 births a year. 250 other dates are rarer. 39 dates are within 1% of its count, anywhere from #99 to #138, so the exact position is a close thing.

56 years of records

June 15 through the years

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

Fell on a weekdayOn a weekend
rarestmost
common
1969, Sunday: rank #350 of 365, 8,402 births1970, Monday: rank #190 of 365, 10,216 births1971, Tuesday: rank #173 of 365, 9,938 births1972, Thursday: rank #214 of 366, 8,931 births1973, Friday: rank #169 of 365, 8,822 births1974, Saturday: rank #313 of 365, 7,666 births1975, Sunday: rank #348 of 365, 7,271 births1976, Tuesday: rank #123 of 366, 9,060 births1977, Wednesday: rank #125 of 365, 9,539 births1978, Thursday: rank #200 of 365, 9,183 births1979, Friday: rank #148 of 365, 9,815 births1980, Sunday: rank #318 of 366, 8,674 births1981, Monday: rank #168 of 365, 10,182 births1982, Tuesday: rank #76 of 365, 10,943 births1983, Wednesday: rank #151 of 365, 10,422 births1984, Friday: rank #151 of 366, 10,332 births1985, Saturday: rank #287 of 365, 8,991 births1986, Sunday: rank #325 of 365, 8,528 births1987, Monday: rank #70 of 365, 11,453 births1988, Wednesday: rank #89 of 366, 11,651 births1989, Thursday: rank #101 of 365, 12,012 births1990, Friday: rank #91 of 365, 12,433 births1991, Saturday: rank #276 of 365, 9,719 births1992, Monday: rank #197 of 366, 11,655 births1993, Tuesday: rank #70 of 365, 12,246 births1994, Wednesday: rank #105 of 365, 11,954 births1995, Thursday: rank #91 of 365, 11,906 births1996, Saturday: rank #276 of 366, 8,783 births1997, Sunday: rank #335 of 365, 7,777 births1998, Monday: rank #208 of 365, 11,280 births1999, Tuesday: rank #65 of 365, 12,525 births2000, Thursday: rank #92 of 366, 12,528 births2001, Friday: rank #152 of 365, 12,192 births2002, Saturday: rank #277 of 365, 8,593 births2003, Sunday: rank #333 of 365, 7,571 births2004, Tuesday: rank #63 of 366, 13,046 births2005, Wednesday: rank #95 of 365, 13,036 births2006, Thursday: rank #95 of 365, 13,547 births2007, Friday: rank #126 of 365, 13,379 births2008, Sunday: rank #327 of 366, 7,681 births2009, Monday: rank #207 of 365, 12,312 births2010, Tuesday: rank #94 of 365, 12,619 births2011, Wednesday: rank #91 of 365, 12,480 births2012, Friday: rank #130 of 366, 12,152 births2013, Saturday: rank #280 of 365, 8,180 births2014, Sunday: rank #337 of 365, 7,365 births2015, Monday: rank #91 of 365, 12,348 births2016, Wednesday: rank #129 of 366, 12,057 births2017, Thursday: rank #90 of 365, 12,049 births2018, Friday: rank #105 of 365, 11,708 births2019, Saturday: rank #288 of 365, 7,881 births2020, Monday: rank #198 of 366, 10,701 births2021, Tuesday: rank #77 of 365, 11,574 births2022, Wednesday: rank #91 of 365, 11,387 births2023, Thursday: rank #75 of 365, 11,326 births2024, Saturday: rank #282 of 366, 7,969 births1970198019902000201020202024

On a weekend it slips to #310, from #124 on a working day

Inductions and planned caesareans are booked on working days, so 28.3% fewer babies arrive and the date falls down the ranking. Each bar is the average rank of the years it landed on that day.

#166
Mon
#93
Tue
#110
Wed
#120
Thu
#134
Fri
#285
Sat
#334
Sun
Most common year
2004#63 of 366Tuesday · 13,046 births
Rarest year
1969#350 of 365Sunday · 8,402 births
Weekend years
16 of 5629% of the record2024 was the most recent
Around the world

June 15 in other countries

June 15 is the 116th most common birthday in the United States. It is among the 50 most common in 2 of the 26 other countries, and ranges from #36 in Latvia to #341 in New Zealand.

  1. Latvia

    #36 of 366

    58 births on an average June 15

    CSB, 1996–⁠2025
  2. Ireland

    #43 of 366

    174 births on an average June 15

    CSO, 1980–⁠2023
  3. Argentina

    #69 of 366

    1,635 births on an average June 15

    DEIS, 2018–⁠2023
  4. Finland

    #75 of 366

    147 births on an average June 15

    Statistics Finland, 2010–⁠2025
  5. Hungary

    #78 of 366

    338 births on an average June 15

    KSH, 1970–⁠2020
  6. Ecuador

    #79 of 366

    789 births on an average June 15

    INEC, 2013–⁠2023
  7. Belgium

    #90 of 366

    334 births on an average June 15

    Statbel, 1992–⁠2025
  8. Slovenia

    #92 of 366

    55 births on an average June 15

    SURS, 2000–⁠2025
  9. Norway

    #100 of 366

    163 births on an average June 15

    SSB, 2011–⁠2025
  10. Chile

    #105 of 366

    700 births on an average June 15

    DEIS, 1990–⁠2017
  11. Switzerland

    #105 of 366

    226 births on an average June 15

    FSO, 1969–⁠2025
  12. Denmark

    #107 of 366

    171 births on an average June 15

    Statistics Denmark, 2007–⁠2025
  13. France

    #122 of 366

    2,185 births on an average June 15

    INSEE, 1998–⁠2024
  14. Guatemala

    #125 of 366

    963 births on an average June 15

    INE Guatemala, 2018–⁠2024
  15. Brazil

    #130 of 366

    8,184 births on an average June 15

    DATASUS, 1997–⁠2024
  16. Germany

    #139 of 366

    2,058 births on an average June 15

    Destatis, 2014–⁠2025
  17. Mexico

    #146 of 366

    5,103 births on an average June 15

    INEGI, 2017–⁠2023
  18. Netherlands

    #149 of 366

    499 births on an average June 15

    CBS, 1995–⁠2025
  19. England & Wales

    #151 of 366

    1,797 births on an average June 15

    ONS, 1995–⁠2025
  20. Portugal

    #163 of 366

    299 births on an average June 15

    INE Portugal, 1980–⁠2025
  21. Japan

    #224 of 366

    2,753 births on an average June 15

    e-Stat, 1996–⁠2025
  22. Philippines

    #225 of 366

    4,375 births on an average June 15

    PSA, 2006–⁠2024
  23. Costa Rica

    #228 of 366

    165 births on an average June 15

    INEC Costa Rica, 2014–⁠2024
  24. Malaysia

    #235 of 366

    1,383 births on an average June 15

    DOSM, 2000–⁠2022
  25. Peru

    #235 of 366

    1,179 births on an average June 15

    INEI, 2019–⁠2025
  26. New Zealand

    #341 of 366

    152 births on an average June 15

    Stats NZ, 1980–⁠2023
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June against the other eleven

June 15 is the 11th most common of the 30 days in June. All June birthdays.

June is the 4th most common month of the year

An average June day sees 10,990 births in the United States. September is the busiest month, January the quietest.

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

June 15#116 of 36611,055 births a year

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Quick answers

How many babies are born on June 15?

About 11,055 a year in the United States. It was at its most common in 2004, when 13,046 babies were born and it ranked #63 of 366; at its rarest in 1969, with 8,402 births at #350.

Is June 15 a common birthday?

In the United States, June 15 is the 116th most common of 366 dates, with about 11,055 births a year. That makes it an ordinary birthday: neither rare nor especially common.

What is the rarest June birthday?

In the United States, June 13: the 132nd rarest of all 366 dates, with about 10,687 births a year. The most common June birthday is June 28, the 73rd most common of the year.

How precise is the ranking?

In the middle of the calendar it is not exact. 39 other dates are within 1% of June 15's count, spread from #99 to #138, 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 June 15 rarer in other countries?

In some. It is rarer in 14 of the 26 other countries we hold daily records for. It is at its rarest in New Zealand, at #341 of 366, and at its most common in Latvia, at #36.

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