Is June 16 a rare birthday? Ordinary
More common than 62% of all 366 dates.
June 16 in numbers
The odds, the star sign and the other dates that come with it.
Where June 16 ranks
From most common birthday to rarest, June 16 ranks in position #138, with 10,949 births a year. 228 other dates are rarer. 55 dates are within 1% of its count, anywhere from #116 to #171, so the exact position is a close thing.
June 16 through the years
Where it ranked in the United States, year by year.
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June 16 in other countries
June 16 is the 138th most common birthday in the United States. It is among the 50 most common in 2 of the 26 other countries, and ranges from #22 in Switzerland to #309 in Guatemala.
Switzerland
#22 of 366
232 births on an average June 16
FSO, 1969–2025Ireland
#34 of 366
175 births on an average June 16
CSO, 1980–2023Latvia
#65 of 366
57 births on an average June 16
CSB, 1996–2025Norway
#72 of 366
166 births on an average June 16
SSB, 2011–2025Hungary
#79 of 366
337 births on an average June 16
KSH, 1970–2020Denmark
#92 of 366
173 births on an average June 16
Statistics Denmark, 2007–2025England & Wales
#93 of 366
1,818 births on an average June 16
ONS, 1995–2025Belgium
#99 of 366
333 births on an average June 16
Statbel, 1992–2025Germany
#105 of 366
2,126 births on an average June 16
Destatis, 2014–2025Chile
#106 of 366
700 births on an average June 16
DEIS, 1990–2017Portugal
#113 of 366
302 births on an average June 16
INE Portugal, 1980–2025Netherlands
#116 of 366
511 births on an average June 16
CBS, 1995–2025Brazil
#117 of 366
8,233 births on an average June 16
DATASUS, 1997–2024France
#126 of 366
2,183 births on an average June 16
INSEE, 1998–2024Malaysia
#135 of 366
1,407 births on an average June 16
DOSM, 2000–2022Argentina
#143 of 366
1,554 births on an average June 16
DEIS, 2018–2023Ecuador
#154 of 366
771 births on an average June 16
INEC, 2013–2023Slovenia
#156 of 366
54 births on an average June 16
SURS, 2000–2025Finland
#175 of 366
141 births on an average June 16
Statistics Finland, 2010–2025Japan
#193 of 366
2,774 births on an average June 16
e-Stat, 1996–2025Philippines
#237 of 366
4,349 births on an average June 16
PSA, 2006–2024Mexico
#250 of 366
4,881 births on an average June 16
INEGI, 2017–2023Peru
#264 of 366
1,161 births on an average June 16
INEI, 2019–2025New Zealand
#269 of 366
155 births on an average June 16
Stats NZ, 1980–2023Costa Rica
#301 of 366
161 births on an average June 16
INEC Costa Rica, 2014–2024Guatemala
#309 of 366
908 births on an average June 16
INE Guatemala, 2018–2024
Famous people born on June 16
Ranked by how often people looked them up on Wikipedia last year.
Tupac ShakurAmerican rapper and actor · born 1971
Laurie MetcalfAmerican actress · born 1955
Jürgen KloppGerman football manager · born 1967
Park Bo-gumSouth Korean actor · born 1993
Mithun ChakrabortyIndian actor · born 1950
Phil MickelsonAmerican professional golfer · born 1970
Valerie MahaffeyAmerican actress · born 1953
Justin JeffersonAmerican football player · born 1999June against the other eleven
June 16 is the 13th rarest 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.
Quick answers
How many babies are born on June 16?
About 10,949 a year in the United States. It was at its most common in 1987, when 11,647 babies were born and it ranked #39 of 365; at its rarest in 1974, with 7,211 births at #348.
Is June 16 a common birthday?
In the United States, June 16 is the 138th most common of 366 dates, with about 10,949 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. 55 other dates are within 1% of June 16's count, spread from #116 to #171, 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 16 rarer in other countries?
In some. It is rarer in 11 of the 26 other countries we hold daily records for. It is at its rarest in Guatemala, at #309 of 366, and at its most common in Switzerland, at #22.
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