Is June 18 a rare birthday? Ordinary

More common than 63% of all 366 dates.

June 18 #136
Most commonSeptember 9RarestDecember 25
Cartoon birthday scene for June 18: a child behind a cake whose candles spell the date
At a glance

June 18 in numbers

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

Born each year≈ 10,953in the United States — about 938,000 of them are alive today
In a full stadium138 peopleof 50,000 were born on June 18
On the day itselfEvery 8 secondsa baby is born on June 18 somewhere in the United States
Star signGeminimore common than 20 of the 31 Gemini birthdays
Half-birthdayDecember 18six months later, to the day
Conceived aroundSeptember 25A cosy autumn night, then.
Birth frequency by rank

Where June 18 ranks

From most common birthday to rarest, June 18 ranks in position #136, with 10,953 births a year. 230 other dates are rarer. 56 dates are within 1% of its count, anywhere from #114 to #170, so the exact position is a close thing.

56 years of records

June 18 through the years

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

Fell on a weekdayOn a weekend
rarestmost
common
1969, Wednesday: rank #129 of 365, 10,220 births1970, Thursday: rank #143 of 365, 10,520 births1971, Friday: rank #171 of 365, 9,944 births1972, Sunday: rank #358 of 366, 7,438 births1973, Monday: rank #128 of 365, 8,959 births1974, Tuesday: rank #128 of 365, 9,016 births1975, Wednesday: rank #114 of 365, 9,050 births1976, Friday: rank #162 of 366, 8,833 births1977, Saturday: rank #289 of 365, 8,227 births1978, Sunday: rank #341 of 365, 7,794 births1979, Monday: rank #172 of 365, 9,732 births1980, Wednesday: rank #106 of 366, 10,336 births1981, Thursday: rank #209 of 365, 10,072 births1982, Friday: rank #82 of 365, 10,880 births1983, Saturday: rank #305 of 365, 8,709 births1984, Monday: rank #129 of 366, 10,483 births1985, Tuesday: rank #89 of 365, 11,141 births1986, Wednesday: rank #166 of 365, 10,692 births1987, Thursday: rank #116 of 365, 11,225 births1988, Saturday: rank #277 of 366, 9,380 births1989, Sunday: rank #304 of 365, 9,232 births1990, Monday: rank #176 of 365, 11,981 births1991, Tuesday: rank #120 of 365, 12,131 births1992, Thursday: rank #69 of 366, 12,293 births1993, Friday: rank #76 of 365, 12,200 births1994, Saturday: rank #285 of 365, 8,907 births1995, Sunday: rank #322 of 365, 8,203 births1996, Tuesday: rank #63 of 366, 12,105 births1997, Wednesday: rank #98 of 365, 11,875 births1998, Thursday: rank #119 of 365, 11,968 births1999, Friday: rank #146 of 365, 11,861 births2000, Sunday: rank #325 of 366, 8,024 births2001, Monday: rank #214 of 365, 11,559 births2002, Tuesday: rank #55 of 365, 12,898 births2003, Wednesday: rank #84 of 365, 12,903 births2004, Friday: rank #146 of 366, 12,581 births2005, Saturday: rank #280 of 365, 8,450 births2006, Sunday: rank #326 of 365, 7,800 births2007, Monday: rank #200 of 365, 12,979 births2008, Wednesday: rank #80 of 366, 13,440 births2009, Thursday: rank #41 of 365, 13,443 births2010, Friday: rank #181 of 365, 12,163 births2011, Saturday: rank #265 of 365, 8,426 births2012, Monday: rank #161 of 366, 11,902 births2013, Tuesday: rank #60 of 365, 12,615 births2014, Wednesday: rank #90 of 365, 12,467 births2015, Thursday: rank #100 of 365, 12,323 births2016, Saturday: rank #280 of 366, 8,262 births2017, Sunday: rank #329 of 365, 7,267 births2018, Monday: rank #153 of 365, 11,490 births2019, Tuesday: rank #67 of 365, 11,796 births2020, Thursday: rank #90 of 366, 11,215 births2021, Friday: rank #104 of 365, 11,426 births2022, Saturday: rank #283 of 365, 7,897 births2023, Sunday: rank #326 of 365, 6,987 births2024, Tuesday: rank #78 of 366, 11,252 births1970198019902000201020202024

On a weekend it slips to #306, from #120 on a working day

Inductions and planned caesareans are booked on working days, so 28.2% fewer babies arrive and the date falls down the ranking. Each bar is the average rank of the years it landed on that day.

#167
Mon
#83
Tue
#108
Wed
#111
Thu
#134
Fri
#283
Sat
#329
Sun
Most common year
2009#41 of 365Thursday · 13,443 births
Rarest year
1972#358 of 366Sunday · 7,438 births
Weekend years
16 of 5629% of the record2023 was the most recent
Around the world

June 18 in other countries

June 18 is the 136th most common birthday in the United States. It is among the 50 most common in 2 of the 26 other countries, and ranges from #6 in Latvia to #309 in Mexico.

  1. Latvia

    #6 of 366

    61 births on an average June 18

    CSB, 1996–⁠2025
  2. Norway

    #22 of 366

    171 births on an average June 18

    SSB, 2011–⁠2025
  3. Belgium

    #62 of 366

    338 births on an average June 18

    Statbel, 1992–⁠2025
  4. Denmark

    #64 of 366

    175 births on an average June 18

    Statistics Denmark, 2007–⁠2025
  5. Finland

    #80 of 366

    147 births on an average June 18

    Statistics Finland, 2010–⁠2025
  6. Argentina

    #89 of 366

    1,608 births on an average June 18

    DEIS, 2018–⁠2023
  7. Hungary

    #100 of 366

    333 births on an average June 18

    KSH, 1970–⁠2020
  8. Brazil

    #105 of 366

    8,287 births on an average June 18

    DATASUS, 1997–⁠2024
  9. Peru

    #110 of 366

    1,227 births on an average June 18

    INEI, 2019–⁠2025
  10. Germany

    #115 of 366

    2,113 births on an average June 18

    Destatis, 2014–⁠2025
  11. Slovenia

    #115 of 366

    55 births on an average June 18

    SURS, 2000–⁠2025
  12. England & Wales

    #118 of 366

    1,809 births on an average June 18

    ONS, 1995–⁠2025
  13. Ireland

    #118 of 366

    170 births on an average June 18

    CSO, 1980–⁠2023
  14. Netherlands

    #123 of 366

    507 births on an average June 18

    CBS, 1995–⁠2025
  15. Switzerland

    #124 of 366

    225 births on an average June 18

    FSO, 1969–⁠2025
  16. Malaysia

    #130 of 366

    1,409 births on an average June 18

    DOSM, 2000–⁠2022
  17. France

    #132 of 366

    2,179 births on an average June 18

    INSEE, 1998–⁠2024
  18. Japan

    #152 of 366

    2,800 births on an average June 18

    e-Stat, 1996–⁠2025
  19. Ecuador

    #163 of 366

    769 births on an average June 18

    INEC, 2013–⁠2023
  20. Philippines

    #200 of 366

    4,407 births on an average June 18

    PSA, 2006–⁠2024
  21. Portugal

    #223 of 366

    295 births on an average June 18

    INE Portugal, 1980–⁠2025
  22. Guatemala

    #252 of 366

    926 births on an average June 18

    INE Guatemala, 2018–⁠2024
  23. New Zealand

    #266 of 366

    155 births on an average June 18

    Stats NZ, 1980–⁠2023
  24. Chile

    #282 of 366

    678 births on an average June 18

    DEIS, 1990–⁠2017
  25. Costa Rica

    #302 of 366

    161 births on an average June 18

    INEC Costa Rica, 2014–⁠2024
  26. Mexico

    #309 of 366

    4,734 births on an average June 18

    INEGI, 2017–⁠2023
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June against the other eleven

June 18 is the 14th 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.

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 18#136 of 36610,953 births a year

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Quick answers

How many babies are born on June 18?

About 10,953 a year in the United States. It was at its most common in 2009, when 13,443 babies were born and it ranked #41 of 365; at its rarest in 1972, with 7,438 births at #358.

Is June 18 a common birthday?

In the United States, June 18 is the 136th most common of 366 dates, with about 10,953 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. 56 other dates are within 1% of June 18's count, spread from #114 to #170, 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 18 rarer in other countries?

In some. It is rarer in 9 of the 26 other countries we hold daily records for. It is at its rarest in Mexico, at #309 of 366, and at its most common in Latvia, at #6.

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