Is June 21 a rare birthday? Ordinary

More common than 71% of all 366 dates.

June 21 #106
Most commonSeptember 9RarestDecember 25
Cartoon birthday scene for June 21: a child behind a cake whose candles spell the date
At a glance

June 21 in numbers

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

Born each year≈ 11,106in the United States — about 944,000 of them are alive today
In a full stadium140 peopleof 50,000 were born on June 21
On the day itselfEvery 8 secondsa baby is born on June 21 somewhere in the United States
Star signCancerrarer than 23 of the 32 Cancer birthdays
Half-birthdayDecember 21six months later, to the day
Conceived aroundSeptember 28A cosy autumn night, then.
Birth frequency by rank

Where June 21 ranks

From most common birthday to rarest, June 21 ranks in position #106, with 11,106 births a year. 260 other dates are rarer. 26 dates are within 1% of its count, anywhere from #95 to #121, so the exact position is a close thing.

56 years of records

June 21 through the years

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

Fell on a weekdayOn a weekend
rarestmost
common
1969, Saturday: rank #300 of 365, 9,034 births1970, Sunday: rank #353 of 365, 8,568 births1971, Monday: rank #221 of 365, 9,720 births1972, Wednesday: rank #233 of 366, 8,832 births1973, Thursday: rank #181 of 365, 8,782 births1974, Friday: rank #75 of 365, 9,364 births1975, Saturday: rank #281 of 365, 7,959 births1976, Monday: rank #240 of 366, 8,464 births1977, Tuesday: rank #92 of 365, 9,668 births1978, Wednesday: rank #171 of 365, 9,278 births1979, Thursday: rank #165 of 365, 9,768 births1980, Saturday: rank #304 of 366, 8,812 births1981, Sunday: rank #306 of 365, 8,713 births1982, Monday: rank #88 of 365, 10,786 births1983, Tuesday: rank #78 of 365, 10,751 births1984, Thursday: rank #116 of 366, 10,561 births1985, Friday: rank #81 of 365, 11,204 births1986, Saturday: rank #292 of 365, 8,857 births1987, Sunday: rank #294 of 365, 8,886 births1988, Tuesday: rank #48 of 366, 12,040 births1989, Wednesday: rank #75 of 365, 12,235 births1990, Thursday: rank #85 of 365, 12,463 births1991, Friday: rank #79 of 365, 12,415 births1992, Sunday: rank #335 of 366, 8,813 births1993, Monday: rank #237 of 365, 11,157 births1994, Tuesday: rank #61 of 365, 12,182 births1995, Wednesday: rank #75 of 365, 12,049 births1996, Friday: rank #107 of 366, 11,759 births1997, Saturday: rank #278 of 365, 8,751 births1998, Sunday: rank #338 of 365, 7,794 births1999, Monday: rank #212 of 365, 11,492 births2000, Wednesday: rank #102 of 366, 12,497 births2001, Thursday: rank #117 of 365, 12,323 births2002, Friday: rank #157 of 365, 12,163 births2003, Saturday: rank #277 of 365, 8,623 births2004, Monday: rank #229 of 366, 11,892 births2005, Tuesday: rank #72 of 365, 13,200 births2006, Wednesday: rank #108 of 365, 13,373 births2007, Thursday: rank #87 of 365, 13,639 births2008, Saturday: rank #274 of 366, 8,772 births2009, Sunday: rank #321 of 365, 7,480 births2010, Monday: rank #225 of 365, 11,793 births2011, Tuesday: rank #46 of 365, 12,944 births2012, Thursday: rank #75 of 366, 12,590 births2013, Friday: rank #130 of 365, 12,048 births2014, Saturday: rank #281 of 365, 8,283 births2015, Sunday: rank #324 of 365, 7,580 births2016, Tuesday: rank #61 of 366, 12,471 births2017, Wednesday: rank #87 of 365, 12,083 births2018, Thursday: rank #80 of 365, 11,865 births2019, Friday: rank #110 of 365, 11,541 births2020, Sunday: rank #331 of 366, 6,693 births2021, Monday: rank #125 of 365, 11,253 births2022, Tuesday: rank #94 of 365, 11,360 births2023, Wednesday: rank #84 of 365, 11,279 births2024, Friday: rank #134 of 366, 10,961 births1970198019902000201020202024

On a weekend it slips to #306, from #121 on a working day

Inductions and planned caesareans are booked on working days, so 26.8% fewer babies arrive and the date falls down the ranking. Each bar is the average rank of the years it landed on that day.

#197
Mon
#69
Tue
#117
Wed
#113
Thu
#109
Fri
#286
Sat
#325
Sun
Most common year
2011#46 of 365Tuesday · 12,944 births
Rarest year
1970#353 of 365Sunday · 8,568 births
Weekend years
16 of 5629% of the record2020 was the most recent
Around the world

June 21 in other countries

June 21 is the 106th most common birthday in the United States. It is among the 50 most common in 3 of the 26 other countries, and ranges from #4 in Latvia to #276 in New Zealand.

  1. Latvia

    #4 of 366

    61 births on an average June 21

    CSB, 1996–⁠2025
  2. Norway

    #14 of 366

    172 births on an average June 21

    SSB, 2011–⁠2025
  3. Switzerland

    #25 of 366

    232 births on an average June 21

    FSO, 1969–⁠2025
  4. Hungary

    #56 of 366

    342 births on an average June 21

    KSH, 1970–⁠2020
  5. Germany

    #84 of 366

    2,156 births on an average June 21

    Destatis, 2014–⁠2025
  6. England & Wales

    #103 of 366

    1,813 births on an average June 21

    ONS, 1995–⁠2025
  7. France

    #103 of 366

    2,196 births on an average June 21

    INSEE, 1998–⁠2024
  8. Slovenia

    #103 of 366

    55 births on an average June 21

    SURS, 2000–⁠2025
  9. Malaysia

    #107 of 366

    1,416 births on an average June 21

    DOSM, 2000–⁠2022
  10. Belgium

    #115 of 366

    333 births on an average June 21

    Statbel, 1992–⁠2025
  11. Finland

    #119 of 366

    145 births on an average June 21

    Statistics Finland, 2010–⁠2025
  12. Denmark

    #120 of 366

    169 births on an average June 21

    Statistics Denmark, 2007–⁠2025
  13. Netherlands

    #120 of 366

    508 births on an average June 21

    CBS, 1995–⁠2025
  14. Brazil

    #128 of 366

    8,190 births on an average June 21

    DATASUS, 1997–⁠2024
  15. Argentina

    #158 of 366

    1,534 births on an average June 21

    DEIS, 2018–⁠2023
  16. Peru

    #163 of 366

    1,208 births on an average June 21

    INEI, 2019–⁠2025
  17. Japan

    #165 of 366

    2,789 births on an average June 21

    e-Stat, 1996–⁠2025
  18. Portugal

    #168 of 366

    298 births on an average June 21

    INE Portugal, 1980–⁠2025
  19. Ecuador

    #169 of 366

    766 births on an average June 21

    INEC, 2013–⁠2023
  20. Mexico

    #179 of 366

    5,031 births on an average June 21

    INEGI, 2017–⁠2023
  21. Ireland

    #194 of 366

    167 births on an average June 21

    CSO, 1980–⁠2023
  22. Guatemala

    #197 of 366

    943 births on an average June 21

    INE Guatemala, 2018–⁠2024
  23. Chile

    #207 of 366

    687 births on an average June 21

    DEIS, 1990–⁠2017
  24. Costa Rica

    #243 of 366

    164 births on an average June 21

    INEC Costa Rica, 2014–⁠2024
  25. Philippines

    #265 of 366

    4,307 births on an average June 21

    PSA, 2006–⁠2024
  26. New Zealand

    #276 of 366

    154 births on an average June 21

    Stats NZ, 1980–⁠2023
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June against the other eleven

June 21 is the 6th 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 21#106 of 36611,106 births a year

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Quick answers

How many babies are born on June 21?

About 11,106 a year in the United States. It was at its most common in 2011, when 12,944 babies were born and it ranked #46 of 365; at its rarest in 1970, with 8,568 births at #353.

Is June 21 a common birthday?

In the United States, June 21 is the 106th most common of 366 dates, with about 11,106 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. 26 other dates are within 1% of June 21's count, spread from #95 to #121, 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 21 rarer in other countries?

In some. It is rarer in 18 of the 26 other countries we hold daily records for. It is at its rarest in New Zealand, at #276 of 366, and at its most common in Latvia, at #4.

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