Is June 26 a rare birthday? Ordinary

More common than 70% of all 366 dates.

June 26 #111
Most commonSeptember 9RarestDecember 25
Cartoon birthday scene for June 26: a child behind a cake whose candles spell the date
At a glance

June 26 in numbers

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

Born each year≈ 11,074in the United States — about 947,000 of them are alive today
In a full stadium139 peopleof 50,000 were born on June 26
On the day itselfEvery 8 secondsa baby is born on June 26 somewhere in the United States
Star signCancerrarer than 25 of the 32 Cancer birthdays
Half-birthdayDecember 26six months later, to the day
Conceived aroundOctober 3A cosy autumn night, then.
Birth frequency by rank

Where June 26 ranks

From most common birthday to rarest, June 26 ranks in position #111, with 11,074 births a year. 255 other dates are rarer. 33 dates are within 1% of its count, anywhere from #97 to #130, so the exact position is a close thing.

56 years of records

June 26 through the years

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

Fell on a weekdayOn a weekend
rarestmost
common
1969, Thursday: rank #108 of 365, 10,344 births1970, Friday: rank #124 of 365, 10,622 births1971, Saturday: rank #294 of 365, 8,936 births1972, Monday: rank #157 of 366, 9,199 births1973, Tuesday: rank #96 of 365, 9,081 births1974, Wednesday: rank #132 of 365, 8,999 births1975, Thursday: rank #122 of 365, 9,024 births1976, Saturday: rank #304 of 366, 7,827 births1977, Sunday: rank #313 of 365, 8,038 births1978, Monday: rank #149 of 365, 9,353 births1979, Tuesday: rank #92 of 365, 10,116 births1980, Thursday: rank #75 of 366, 10,621 births1981, Friday: rank #93 of 365, 10,524 births1982, Saturday: rank #275 of 365, 9,216 births1983, Sunday: rank #309 of 365, 8,661 births1984, Tuesday: rank #75 of 366, 10,980 births1985, Wednesday: rank #92 of 365, 11,112 births1986, Thursday: rank #93 of 365, 11,100 births1987, Friday: rank #51 of 365, 11,548 births1988, Sunday: rank #317 of 366, 8,858 births1989, Monday: rank #131 of 365, 11,772 births1990, Tuesday: rank #55 of 365, 12,725 births1991, Wednesday: rank #91 of 365, 12,338 births1992, Friday: rank #52 of 366, 12,396 births1993, Saturday: rank #282 of 365, 9,155 births1994, Sunday: rank #329 of 365, 8,306 births1995, Monday: rank #217 of 365, 11,127 births1996, Wednesday: rank #55 of 366, 12,154 births1997, Thursday: rank #45 of 365, 12,291 births1998, Friday: rank #103 of 365, 12,050 births1999, Saturday: rank #269 of 365, 8,922 births2000, Monday: rank #194 of 366, 11,914 births2001, Tuesday: rank #73 of 365, 12,638 births2002, Wednesday: rank #59 of 365, 12,850 births2003, Thursday: rank #64 of 365, 13,106 births2004, Saturday: rank #273 of 366, 8,673 births2005, Sunday: rank #326 of 365, 7,504 births2006, Monday: rank #221 of 365, 12,479 births2007, Tuesday: rank #42 of 365, 14,160 births2008, Thursday: rank #89 of 366, 13,375 births2009, Friday: rank #140 of 365, 12,784 births2010, Saturday: rank #273 of 365, 8,220 births2011, Sunday: rank #335 of 365, 7,066 births2012, Tuesday: rank #53 of 366, 12,755 births2013, Wednesday: rank #85 of 365, 12,385 births2014, Thursday: rank #79 of 365, 12,559 births2015, Friday: rank #138 of 365, 12,152 births2016, Sunday: rank #326 of 366, 7,548 births2017, Monday: rank #205 of 365, 11,364 births2018, Tuesday: rank #67 of 365, 11,931 births2019, Wednesday: rank #97 of 365, 11,598 births2020, Friday: rank #123 of 366, 11,069 births2021, Saturday: rank #274 of 365, 8,093 births2022, Sunday: rank #329 of 365, 7,042 births2023, Monday: rank #166 of 365, 10,801 births2024, Wednesday: rank #63 of 366, 11,369 births1970198019902000201020202024

On a weekend it slips to #302, from #104 on a working day

Inductions and planned caesareans are booked on working days, so 28.3% fewer babies arrive and the date falls down the ranking. Each bar is the average rank of the years it landed on that day.

#180
Mon
#69
Tue
#84
Wed
#84
Thu
#103
Fri
#281
Sat
#323
Sun
Most common year
2007#42 of 365Tuesday · 14,160 births
Rarest year
2011#335 of 365Sunday · 7,066 births
Weekend years
16 of 5629% of the record2022 was the most recent
Around the world

June 26 in other countries

June 26 is the 111th most common birthday in the United States. It is among the 50 most common in 7 of the 26 other countries, and ranges from #2 in Latvia and Norway to #344 in Chile.

  1. Latvia

    #2 of 366

    62 births on an average June 26

    CSB, 1996–⁠2025
  2. Norway

    #2 of 366

    179 births on an average June 26

    SSB, 2011–⁠2025
  3. Slovenia

    #9 of 366

    60 births on an average June 26

    SURS, 2000–⁠2025
  4. Belgium

    #17 of 366

    347 births on an average June 26

    Statbel, 1992–⁠2025
  5. Switzerland

    #27 of 366

    232 births on an average June 26

    FSO, 1969–⁠2025
  6. Germany

    #41 of 366

    2,212 births on an average June 26

    Destatis, 2014–⁠2025
  7. Finland

    #45 of 366

    149 births on an average June 26

    Statistics Finland, 2010–⁠2025
  8. Hungary

    #70 of 366

    339 births on an average June 26

    KSH, 1970–⁠2020
  9. Denmark

    #81 of 366

    174 births on an average June 26

    Statistics Denmark, 2007–⁠2025
  10. France

    #92 of 366

    2,200 births on an average June 26

    INSEE, 1998–⁠2024
  11. Netherlands

    #104 of 366

    515 births on an average June 26

    CBS, 1995–⁠2025
  12. England & Wales

    #106 of 366

    1,812 births on an average June 26

    ONS, 1995–⁠2025
  13. Brazil

    #111 of 366

    8,251 births on an average June 26

    DATASUS, 1997–⁠2024
  14. Japan

    #155 of 366

    2,798 births on an average June 26

    e-Stat, 1996–⁠2025
  15. Ireland

    #160 of 366

    168 births on an average June 26

    CSO, 1980–⁠2023
  16. Portugal

    #164 of 366

    298 births on an average June 26

    INE Portugal, 1980–⁠2025
  17. Argentina

    #196 of 366

    1,495 births on an average June 26

    DEIS, 2018–⁠2023
  18. Malaysia

    #206 of 366

    1,389 births on an average June 26

    DOSM, 2000–⁠2022
  19. Ecuador

    #207 of 366

    759 births on an average June 26

    INEC, 2013–⁠2023
  20. Costa Rica

    #208 of 366

    166 births on an average June 26

    INEC Costa Rica, 2014–⁠2024
  21. Peru

    #216 of 366

    1,188 births on an average June 26

    INEI, 2019–⁠2025
  22. Mexico

    #260 of 366

    4,864 births on an average June 26

    INEGI, 2017–⁠2023
  23. Philippines

    #277 of 366

    4,288 births on an average June 26

    PSA, 2006–⁠2024
  24. New Zealand

    #288 of 366

    154 births on an average June 26

    Stats NZ, 1980–⁠2023
  25. Guatemala

    #310 of 366

    908 births on an average June 26

    INE Guatemala, 2018–⁠2024
  26. Chile

    #344 of 366

    656 births on an average June 26

    DEIS, 1990–⁠2017
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June against the other eleven

June 26 is the 8th 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 26#111 of 36611,074 births a year

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Quick answers

How many babies are born on June 26?

About 11,074 a year in the United States. It was at its most common in 2007, when 14,160 babies were born and it ranked #42 of 365; at its rarest in 2011, with 7,066 births at #335.

Is June 26 a common birthday?

In the United States, June 26 is the 111th most common of 366 dates, with about 11,074 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. 33 other dates are within 1% of June 26's count, spread from #97 to #130, 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 26 rarer in other countries?

In some. It is rarer in 13 of the 26 other countries we hold daily records for. It is at its rarest in Chile, at #344 of 366, and at its most common in Latvia and Norway, at #2.

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