Is June 2 a rare birthday? Ordinary

More common than 69% of all 366 dates.

June 2 #113
Most commonSeptember 9RarestDecember 25
Cartoon birthday scene for June 2: a child behind a cake whose candles spell the date
At a glance

June 2 in numbers

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

Born each year≈ 11,066in the United States — about 944,000 of them are alive today
In a full stadium139 peopleof 50,000 were born on June 2
On the day itselfEvery 8 secondsa baby is born on June 2 somewhere in the United States
Star signGeminimore common than 27 of the 31 Gemini birthdays
Half-birthdayDecember 2six months later, to the day
Conceived aroundSeptember 9A cosy autumn night, then.
Birth frequency by rank

Where June 2 ranks

From most common birthday to rarest, June 2 ranks in position #113, with 11,066 births a year. 253 other dates are rarer. 36 dates are within 1% of its count, anywhere from #98 to #134, so the exact position is a close thing.

56 years of records

June 2 through the years

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

Fell on a weekdayOn a weekend
rarestmost
common
1969, Monday: rank #192 of 365, 9,862 births1970, Tuesday: rank #87 of 365, 10,882 births1971, Wednesday: rank #193 of 365, 9,826 births1972, Friday: rank #227 of 366, 8,857 births1973, Saturday: rank #297 of 365, 7,846 births1974, Sunday: rank #358 of 365, 7,046 births1975, Monday: rank #232 of 365, 8,555 births1976, Wednesday: rank #176 of 366, 8,749 births1977, Thursday: rank #185 of 365, 9,344 births1978, Friday: rank #163 of 365, 9,313 births1979, Saturday: rank #307 of 365, 8,549 births1980, Monday: rank #210 of 366, 9,933 births1981, Tuesday: rank #128 of 365, 10,355 births1982, Wednesday: rank #94 of 365, 10,712 births1983, Thursday: rank #124 of 365, 10,516 births1984, Saturday: rank #291 of 366, 8,880 births1985, Sunday: rank #324 of 365, 8,753 births1986, Monday: rank #154 of 365, 10,757 births1987, Tuesday: rank #53 of 365, 11,540 births1988, Thursday: rank #61 of 366, 11,911 births1989, Friday: rank #74 of 365, 12,238 births1990, Saturday: rank #269 of 365, 10,070 births1991, Sunday: rank #330 of 365, 8,994 births1992, Tuesday: rank #43 of 366, 12,493 births1993, Wednesday: rank #25 of 365, 12,570 births1994, Thursday: rank #64 of 365, 12,166 births1995, Friday: rank #82 of 365, 11,991 births1996, Sunday: rank #334 of 366, 7,962 births1997, Monday: rank #237 of 365, 10,716 births1998, Tuesday: rank #154 of 365, 11,762 births1999, Wednesday: rank #18 of 365, 12,961 births2000, Friday: rank #113 of 366, 12,428 births2001, Saturday: rank #276 of 365, 8,753 births2002, Sunday: rank #338 of 365, 7,469 births2003, Monday: rank #218 of 365, 11,835 births2004, Wednesday: rank #17 of 366, 13,529 births2005, Thursday: rank #50 of 365, 13,435 births2006, Friday: rank #92 of 365, 13,580 births2007, Saturday: rank #274 of 365, 8,895 births2008, Monday: rank #222 of 366, 12,433 births2009, Tuesday: rank #72 of 365, 13,198 births2010, Wednesday: rank #9 of 365, 13,591 births2011, Thursday: rank #28 of 365, 13,117 births2012, Saturday: rank #284 of 366, 7,983 births2013, Sunday: rank #351 of 365, 6,973 births2014, Monday: rank #199 of 365, 11,800 births2015, Tuesday: rank #157 of 365, 11,994 births2016, Thursday: rank #36 of 366, 12,745 births2017, Friday: rank #80 of 365, 12,126 births2018, Saturday: rank #276 of 365, 8,122 births2019, Sunday: rank #332 of 365, 6,962 births2020, Tuesday: rank #80 of 366, 11,276 births2021, Wednesday: rank #13 of 365, 12,318 births2022, Thursday: rank #44 of 365, 11,745 births2023, Friday: rank #93 of 365, 11,188 births2024, Sunday: rank #333 of 366, 6,952 births1970198019902000201020202024

On a weekend it slips to #311, from #112 on a working day

Inductions and planned caesareans are booked on working days, so 29.3% fewer babies arrive and the date falls down the ranking. Each bar is the average rank of the years it landed on that day.

#208
Mon
#97
Tue
#68
Wed
#74
Thu
#116
Fri
#284
Sat
#338
Sun
Most common year
2010#9 of 365Wednesday · 13,591 births
Rarest year
1974#358 of 365Sunday · 7,046 births
Weekend years
16 of 5629% of the record2024 was the most recent
Around the world

June 2 in other countries

June 2 is the 113th most common birthday in the United States. It is not among the 50 most common in any of the 26 other countries, and ranges from #87 in Norway to #302 in Guatemala.

  1. Norway

    #87 of 366

    164 births on an average June 2

    SSB, 2011–⁠2025
  2. Switzerland

    #89 of 366

    228 births on an average June 2

    FSO, 1969–⁠2025
  3. Brazil

    #100 of 366

    8,308 births on an average June 2

    DATASUS, 1997–⁠2024
  4. Germany

    #103 of 366

    2,129 births on an average June 2

    Destatis, 2014–⁠2025
  5. Ecuador

    #118 of 366

    780 births on an average June 2

    INEC, 2013–⁠2023
  6. Belgium

    #127 of 366

    331 births on an average June 2

    Statbel, 1992–⁠2025
  7. Portugal

    #141 of 366

    300 births on an average June 2

    INE Portugal, 1980–⁠2025
  8. England & Wales

    #153 of 366

    1,797 births on an average June 2

    ONS, 1995–⁠2025
  9. Denmark

    #154 of 366

    166 births on an average June 2

    Statistics Denmark, 2007–⁠2025
  10. Latvia

    #157 of 366

    55 births on an average June 2

    CSB, 1996–⁠2025
  11. Slovenia

    #201 of 366

    53 births on an average June 2

    SURS, 2000–⁠2025
  12. Chile

    #215 of 366

    686 births on an average June 2

    DEIS, 1990–⁠2017
  13. Peru

    #221 of 366

    1,186 births on an average June 2

    INEI, 2019–⁠2025
  14. Malaysia

    #225 of 366

    1,385 births on an average June 2

    DOSM, 2000–⁠2022
  15. Costa Rica

    #236 of 366

    164 births on an average June 2

    INEC Costa Rica, 2014–⁠2024
  16. Netherlands

    #243 of 366

    490 births on an average June 2

    CBS, 1995–⁠2025
  17. Philippines

    #255 of 366

    4,326 births on an average June 2

    PSA, 2006–⁠2024
  18. New Zealand

    #257 of 366

    155 births on an average June 2

    Stats NZ, 1980–⁠2023
  19. France

    #259 of 366

    2,109 births on an average June 2

    INSEE, 1998–⁠2024
  20. Japan

    #259 of 366

    2,728 births on an average June 2

    e-Stat, 1996–⁠2025
  21. Mexico

    #281 of 366

    4,827 births on an average June 2

    INEGI, 2017–⁠2023
  22. Argentina

    #288 of 366

    1,408 births on an average June 2

    DEIS, 2018–⁠2023
  23. Ireland

    #289 of 366

    164 births on an average June 2

    CSO, 1980–⁠2023
  24. Finland

    #291 of 366

    136 births on an average June 2

    Statistics Finland, 2010–⁠2025
  25. Hungary

    #297 of 366

    315 births on an average June 2

    KSH, 1970–⁠2020
  26. Guatemala

    #302 of 366

    911 births on an average June 2

    INE Guatemala, 2018–⁠2024
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June against the other eleven

June 2 is the 10th 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 2#113 of 36611,066 births a year

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Quick answers

How many babies are born on June 2?

About 11,066 a year in the United States. It was at its most common in 2010, when 13,591 babies were born and it ranked #9 of 365; at its rarest in 1974, with 7,046 births at #358.

Is June 2 a common birthday?

In the United States, June 2 is the 113th most common of 366 dates, with about 11,066 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. 36 other dates are within 1% of June 2's count, spread from #98 to #134, 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 2 rarer in other countries?

In some. It is rarer in 22 of the 26 other countries we hold daily records for. It is at its rarest in Guatemala, at #302 of 366, and at its most common in Norway, at #87.

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