Is June 28 a rare birthday? Popular

More common than 80% of all 366 dates.

June 28 #73
Most commonSeptember 9RarestDecember 25
Cartoon birthday scene for June 28: a child behind a cake whose candles spell the date
At a glance

June 28 in numbers

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

Born each year≈ 11,320in the United States — about 963,000 of them are alive today
In a full stadium143 peopleof 50,000 were born on June 28
On the day itselfEvery 8 secondsa baby is born on June 28 somewhere in the United States
Star signCancerrarer than 17 of the 32 Cancer birthdays
Half-birthdayDecember 28six months later, to the day
Conceived aroundOctober 5A cosy autumn night, then.
Birth frequency by rank

Where June 28 ranks

From most common birthday to rarest, June 28 ranks in position #73, with 11,320 births a year. 293 other dates are rarer. 51 dates are within 1% of its count, anywhere from #44 to #95, so the exact position is a close thing.

56 years of records

June 28 through the years

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

Fell on a weekdayOn a weekend
rarestmost
common
1969, Saturday: rank #250 of 365, 9,566 births1970, Sunday: rank #347 of 365, 8,728 births1971, Monday: rank #163 of 365, 9,986 births1972, Wednesday: rank #134 of 366, 9,275 births1973, Thursday: rank #98 of 365, 9,068 births1974, Friday: rank #107 of 365, 9,089 births1975, Saturday: rank #266 of 365, 8,129 births1976, Monday: rank #121 of 366, 9,071 births1977, Tuesday: rank #47 of 365, 9,994 births1978, Wednesday: rank #94 of 365, 9,709 births1979, Thursday: rank #101 of 365, 10,086 births1980, Saturday: rank #283 of 366, 9,011 births1981, Sunday: rank #319 of 365, 8,599 births1982, Monday: rank #68 of 365, 10,978 births1983, Tuesday: rank #23 of 365, 11,088 births1984, Thursday: rank #85 of 366, 10,794 births1985, Friday: rank #57 of 365, 11,360 births1986, Saturday: rank #273 of 365, 9,128 births1987, Sunday: rank #318 of 365, 8,695 births1988, Tuesday: rank #38 of 366, 12,165 births1989, Wednesday: rank #71 of 365, 12,299 births1990, Thursday: rank #39 of 365, 12,864 births1991, Friday: rank #52 of 365, 12,631 births1992, Sunday: rank #328 of 366, 8,880 births1993, Monday: rank #178 of 365, 11,645 births1994, Tuesday: rank #58 of 365, 12,211 births1995, Wednesday: rank #65 of 365, 12,162 births1996, Friday: rank #68 of 366, 12,057 births1997, Saturday: rank #255 of 365, 9,184 births1998, Sunday: rank #324 of 365, 7,930 births1999, Monday: rank #211 of 365, 11,506 births2000, Wednesday: rank #56 of 366, 12,776 births2001, Thursday: rank #54 of 365, 12,830 births2002, Friday: rank #63 of 365, 12,779 births2003, Saturday: rank #274 of 365, 8,714 births2004, Monday: rank #207 of 366, 12,139 births2005, Tuesday: rank #34 of 365, 13,600 births2006, Wednesday: rank #43 of 365, 14,040 births2007, Thursday: rank #49 of 365, 14,044 births2008, Saturday: rank #270 of 366, 8,875 births2009, Sunday: rank #325 of 365, 7,395 births2010, Monday: rank #200 of 365, 12,021 births2011, Tuesday: rank #31 of 365, 13,055 births2012, Thursday: rank #44 of 366, 12,857 births2013, Friday: rank #71 of 365, 12,474 births2014, Saturday: rank #275 of 365, 8,416 births2015, Sunday: rank #331 of 365, 7,371 births2016, Tuesday: rank #45 of 366, 12,624 births2017, Wednesday: rank #55 of 365, 12,305 births2018, Thursday: rank #57 of 365, 12,052 births2019, Friday: rank #101 of 365, 11,583 births2020, Sunday: rank #325 of 366, 6,801 births2021, Monday: rank #136 of 365, 11,185 births2022, Tuesday: rank #64 of 365, 11,608 births2023, Wednesday: rank #30 of 365, 11,588 births2024, Friday: rank #120 of 366, 11,023 births1970198019902000201020202024

On a weekend it slips to #298, from #83 on a working day

Inductions and planned caesareans are booked on working days, so 27.4% fewer babies arrive and the date falls down the ranking. Each bar is the average rank of the years it landed on that day.

#161
Mon
#43
Tue
#69
Wed
#66
Thu
#80
Fri
#268
Sat
#327
Sun
Most common year
1983#23 of 365Tuesday · 11,088 births
Rarest year
1970#347 of 365Sunday · 8,728 births
Weekend years
16 of 5629% of the record2020 was the most recent
Around the world

June 28 in other countries

June 28 is the 73rd most common birthday in the United States. It is among the 50 most common in 5 of the 26 other countries, and ranges from #1 in Norway to #344 in New Zealand.

  1. Norway

    #1 of 366

    180 births on an average June 28

    SSB, 2011–⁠2025
  2. Latvia

    #18 of 366

    59 births on an average June 28

    CSB, 1996–⁠2025
  3. Denmark

    #32 of 366

    178 births on an average June 28

    Statistics Denmark, 2007–⁠2025
  4. Finland

    #35 of 366

    149 births on an average June 28

    Statistics Finland, 2010–⁠2025
  5. Hungary

    #36 of 366

    346 births on an average June 28

    KSH, 1970–⁠2020
  6. Slovenia

    #51 of 366

    57 births on an average June 28

    SURS, 2000–⁠2025
  7. Belgium

    #65 of 366

    337 births on an average June 28

    Statbel, 1992–⁠2025
  8. Ireland

    #73 of 366

    172 births on an average June 28

    CSO, 1980–⁠2023
  9. Switzerland

    #77 of 366

    228 births on an average June 28

    FSO, 1969–⁠2025
  10. Germany

    #93 of 366

    2,149 births on an average June 28

    Destatis, 2014–⁠2025
  11. Argentina

    #94 of 366

    1,604 births on an average June 28

    DEIS, 2018–⁠2023
  12. Netherlands

    #96 of 366

    516 births on an average June 28

    CBS, 1995–⁠2025
  13. Peru

    #99 of 366

    1,232 births on an average June 28

    INEI, 2019–⁠2025
  14. England & Wales

    #112 of 366

    1,810 births on an average June 28

    ONS, 1995–⁠2025
  15. France

    #113 of 366

    2,192 births on an average June 28

    INSEE, 1998–⁠2024
  16. Brazil

    #146 of 366

    8,138 births on an average June 28

    DATASUS, 1997–⁠2024
  17. Malaysia

    #175 of 366

    1,399 births on an average June 28

    DOSM, 2000–⁠2022
  18. Ecuador

    #210 of 366

    759 births on an average June 28

    INEC, 2013–⁠2023
  19. Mexico

    #221 of 366

    4,933 births on an average June 28

    INEGI, 2017–⁠2023
  20. Japan

    #223 of 366

    2,754 births on an average June 28

    e-Stat, 1996–⁠2025
  21. Philippines

    #227 of 366

    4,372 births on an average June 28

    PSA, 2006–⁠2024
  22. Portugal

    #241 of 366

    292 births on an average June 28

    INE Portugal, 1980–⁠2025
  23. Guatemala

    #262 of 366

    925 births on an average June 28

    INE Guatemala, 2018–⁠2024
  24. Costa Rica

    #311 of 366

    160 births on an average June 28

    INEC Costa Rica, 2014–⁠2024
  25. Chile

    #326 of 366

    668 births on an average June 28

    DEIS, 1990–⁠2017
  26. New Zealand

    #344 of 366

    152 births on an average June 28

    Stats NZ, 1980–⁠2023
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June against the other eleven

June 28 is the 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 28#73 of 36611,320 births a year

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Quick answers

How many babies are born on June 28?

About 11,320 a year in the United States. It was at its most common in 1983, when 11,088 babies were born and it ranked #23 of 365; at its rarest in 1970, with 8,728 births at #347.

Is June 28 a common birthday?

In the United States, June 28 is the 73rd most common of 366 dates, with about 11,320 births a year. That puts it among the more common birthdays.

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. 51 other dates are within 1% of June 28's count, spread from #44 to #95, 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 28 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 #344 of 366, and at its most common in Norway, at #1.

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