Is June 23 a rare birthday? Ordinary

More common than 62% of all 366 dates.

June 23 #140
Most commonSeptember 9RarestDecember 25
Cartoon birthday scene for June 23: a child behind a cake whose candles spell the date
At a glance

June 23 in numbers

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

Born each year≈ 10,937in the United States — about 938,000 of them are alive today
In a full stadium138 peopleof 50,000 were born on June 23
On the day itselfEvery 8 secondsa baby is born on June 23 somewhere in the United States
Star signCancerrarer than 29 of the 32 Cancer birthdays
Half-birthdayDecember 23six months later, to the day
Conceived aroundSeptember 30A cosy autumn night, then.
Birth frequency by rank

Where June 23 ranks

From most common birthday to rarest, June 23 ranks in position #140, with 10,937 births a year. 226 other dates are rarer. 58 dates are within 1% of its count, anywhere from #117 to #175, so the exact position is a close thing.

56 years of records

June 23 through the years

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

Fell on a weekdayOn a weekend
rarestmost
common
1969, Monday: rank #188 of 365, 9,880 births1970, Tuesday: rank #117 of 365, 10,678 births1971, Wednesday: rank #239 of 365, 9,600 births1972, Friday: rank #241 of 366, 8,787 births1973, Saturday: rank #302 of 365, 7,782 births1974, Sunday: rank #351 of 365, 7,162 births1975, Monday: rank #92 of 365, 9,159 births1976, Wednesday: rank #146 of 366, 8,903 births1977, Thursday: rank #139 of 365, 9,489 births1978, Friday: rank #109 of 365, 9,601 births1979, Saturday: rank #312 of 365, 8,485 births1980, Monday: rank #92 of 366, 10,492 births1981, Tuesday: rank #91 of 365, 10,540 births1982, Wednesday: rank #89 of 365, 10,758 births1983, Thursday: rank #68 of 365, 10,790 births1984, Saturday: rank #282 of 366, 8,972 births1985, Sunday: rank #322 of 365, 8,757 births1986, Monday: rank #114 of 365, 10,968 births1987, Tuesday: rank #78 of 365, 11,433 births1988, Thursday: rank #73 of 366, 11,786 births1989, Friday: rank #58 of 365, 12,412 births1990, Saturday: rank #278 of 365, 9,866 births1991, Sunday: rank #331 of 365, 8,991 births1992, Tuesday: rank #66 of 366, 12,320 births1993, Wednesday: rank #111 of 365, 11,936 births1994, Thursday: rank #106 of 365, 11,939 births1995, Friday: rank #88 of 365, 11,942 births1996, Sunday: rank #326 of 366, 8,128 births1997, Monday: rank #220 of 365, 11,031 births1998, Tuesday: rank #64 of 365, 12,351 births1999, Wednesday: rank #98 of 365, 12,130 births2000, Friday: rank #121 of 366, 12,364 births2001, Saturday: rank #303 of 365, 8,304 births2002, Sunday: rank #331 of 365, 7,557 births2003, Monday: rank #204 of 365, 12,012 births2004, Wednesday: rank #95 of 366, 12,870 births2005, Thursday: rank #68 of 365, 13,230 births2006, Friday: rank #159 of 365, 12,937 births2007, Saturday: rank #270 of 365, 9,030 births2008, Monday: rank #212 of 366, 12,617 births2009, Tuesday: rank #39 of 365, 13,513 births2010, Wednesday: rank #84 of 365, 12,661 births2011, Thursday: rank #86 of 365, 12,527 births2012, Saturday: rank #281 of 366, 8,071 births2013, Sunday: rank #328 of 365, 7,366 births2014, Monday: rank #180 of 365, 11,908 births2015, Tuesday: rank #90 of 365, 12,351 births2016, Thursday: rank #94 of 366, 12,236 births2017, Friday: rank #138 of 365, 11,704 births2018, Saturday: rank #274 of 365, 8,201 births2019, Sunday: rank #330 of 365, 6,972 births2020, Tuesday: rank #61 of 366, 11,407 births2021, Wednesday: rank #97 of 365, 11,464 births2022, Thursday: rank #72 of 365, 11,568 births2023, Friday: rank #139 of 365, 10,921 births2024, Sunday: rank #335 of 366, 6,910 births1970198019902000201020202024

On a weekend it slips to #310, from #116 on a working day

Inductions and planned caesareans are booked on working days, so 28.6% fewer babies arrive and the date falls down the ranking. Each bar is the average rank of the years it landed on that day.

#163
Mon
#76
Tue
#120
Wed
#88
Thu
#132
Fri
#288
Sat
#332
Sun
Most common year
2009#39 of 365Tuesday · 13,513 births
Rarest year
1974#351 of 365Sunday · 7,162 births
Weekend years
16 of 5629% of the record2024 was the most recent
Around the world

June 23 in other countries

June 23 is the 140th 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 #57 in Switzerland to #361 in Latvia.

  1. Switzerland

    #57 of 366

    230 births on an average June 23

    FSO, 1969–⁠2025
  2. Belgium

    #67 of 366

    337 births on an average June 23

    Statbel, 1992–⁠2025
  3. Ireland

    #68 of 366

    173 births on an average June 23

    CSO, 1980–⁠2023
  4. Denmark

    #71 of 366

    174 births on an average June 23

    Statistics Denmark, 2007–⁠2025
  5. Hungary

    #71 of 366

    339 births on an average June 23

    KSH, 1970–⁠2020
  6. Germany

    #83 of 366

    2,156 births on an average June 23

    Destatis, 2014–⁠2025
  7. Norway

    #92 of 366

    164 births on an average June 23

    SSB, 2011–⁠2025
  8. Slovenia

    #100 of 366

    55 births on an average June 23

    SURS, 2000–⁠2025
  9. England & Wales

    #102 of 366

    1,814 births on an average June 23

    ONS, 1995–⁠2025
  10. France

    #123 of 366

    2,184 births on an average June 23

    INSEE, 1998–⁠2024
  11. Netherlands

    #124 of 366

    507 births on an average June 23

    CBS, 1995–⁠2025
  12. Malaysia

    #146 of 366

    1,405 births on an average June 23

    DOSM, 2000–⁠2022
  13. Ecuador

    #147 of 366

    772 births on an average June 23

    INEC, 2013–⁠2023
  14. Finland

    #181 of 366

    141 births on an average June 23

    Statistics Finland, 2010–⁠2025
  15. Portugal

    #201 of 366

    296 births on an average June 23

    INE Portugal, 1980–⁠2025
  16. Brazil

    #206 of 366

    7,921 births on an average June 23

    DATASUS, 1997–⁠2024
  17. Costa Rica

    #225 of 366

    165 births on an average June 23

    INEC Costa Rica, 2014–⁠2024
  18. New Zealand

    #229 of 366

    156 births on an average June 23

    Stats NZ, 1980–⁠2023
  19. Japan

    #237 of 366

    2,746 births on an average June 23

    e-Stat, 1996–⁠2025
  20. Argentina

    #239 of 366

    1,461 births on an average June 23

    DEIS, 2018–⁠2023
  21. Peru

    #247 of 366

    1,171 births on an average June 23

    INEI, 2019–⁠2025
  22. Mexico

    #273 of 366

    4,839 births on an average June 23

    INEGI, 2017–⁠2023
  23. Philippines

    #275 of 366

    4,289 births on an average June 23

    PSA, 2006–⁠2024
  24. Chile

    #294 of 366

    676 births on an average June 23

    DEIS, 1990–⁠2017
  25. Guatemala

    #349 of 366

    877 births on an average June 23

    INE Guatemala, 2018–⁠2024
  26. Latvia

    #361 of 366

    43 births on an average June 23

    CSB, 1996–⁠2025
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June against the other eleven

June 23 is the 12th 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 23#140 of 36610,937 births a year

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Quick answers

How many babies are born on June 23?

About 10,937 a year in the United States. It was at its most common in 2009, when 13,513 babies were born and it ranked #39 of 365; at its rarest in 1974, with 7,162 births at #351.

Is June 23 a common birthday?

In the United States, June 23 is the 140th most common of 366 dates, with about 10,937 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. 58 other dates are within 1% of June 23's count, spread from #117 to #175, 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 23 rarer in other countries?

In some. It is rarer in 15 of the 26 other countries we hold daily records for. It is at its rarest in Latvia, at #361 of 366, and at its most common in Switzerland, at #57.

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