Is June 4 a rare birthday? Ordinary

More common than 56% of all 366 dates.

June 4 #163
Most commonSeptember 9RarestDecember 25
Cartoon birthday scene for June 4: a child behind a cake whose candles spell the date
At a glance

June 4 in numbers

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

Born each year≈ 10,863in the United States — about 928,000 of them are alive today
In a full stadium137 peopleof 50,000 were born on June 4
On the day itselfEvery 8 secondsa baby is born on June 4 somewhere in the United States
Star signGeminirarer than 16 of the 31 Gemini birthdays
Half-birthdayDecember 4six months later, to the day
Conceived aroundSeptember 11A cosy autumn night, then.
Birth frequency by rank

Where June 4 ranks

From most common birthday to rarest, June 4 ranks in position #163, with 10,863 births a year. 203 other dates are rarer. 76 dates are within 1% of its count, anywhere from #128 to #204, so the exact position is a close thing.

56 years of records

June 4 through the years

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

Fell on a weekdayOn a weekend
rarestmost
common
1969, Wednesday: rank #200 of 365, 9,838 births1970, Thursday: rank #237 of 365, 9,964 births1971, Friday: rank #101 of 365, 10,328 births1972, Sunday: rank #350 of 366, 7,587 births1973, Monday: rank #240 of 365, 8,505 births1974, Tuesday: rank #151 of 365, 8,910 births1975, Wednesday: rank #202 of 365, 8,742 births1976, Friday: rank #157 of 366, 8,854 births1977, Saturday: rank #309 of 365, 8,049 births1978, Sunday: rank #360 of 365, 7,408 births1979, Monday: rank #164 of 365, 9,771 births1980, Wednesday: rank #185 of 366, 10,010 births1981, Thursday: rank #161 of 365, 10,208 births1982, Friday: rank #118 of 365, 10,591 births1983, Saturday: rank #276 of 365, 9,012 births1984, Monday: rank #224 of 366, 10,018 births1985, Tuesday: rank #151 of 365, 10,772 births1986, Wednesday: rank #153 of 365, 10,762 births1987, Thursday: rank #112 of 365, 11,231 births1988, Saturday: rank #288 of 366, 9,219 births1989, Sunday: rank #341 of 365, 8,828 births1990, Monday: rank #198 of 365, 11,811 births1991, Tuesday: rank #102 of 365, 12,240 births1992, Thursday: rank #91 of 366, 12,149 births1993, Friday: rank #64 of 365, 12,295 births1994, Saturday: rank #269 of 365, 9,182 births1995, Sunday: rank #330 of 365, 8,059 births1996, Tuesday: rank #100 of 366, 11,783 births1997, Wednesday: rank #109 of 365, 11,794 births1998, Thursday: rank #151 of 365, 11,778 births1999, Friday: rank #80 of 365, 12,340 births2000, Sunday: rank #336 of 366, 7,860 births2001, Monday: rank #237 of 365, 11,239 births2002, Tuesday: rank #109 of 365, 12,391 births2003, Wednesday: rank #123 of 365, 12,616 births2004, Friday: rank #103 of 366, 12,826 births2005, Saturday: rank #274 of 365, 8,578 births2006, Sunday: rank #328 of 365, 7,769 births2007, Monday: rank #225 of 365, 12,529 births2008, Wednesday: rank #85 of 366, 13,390 births2009, Thursday: rank #131 of 365, 12,863 births2010, Friday: rank #118 of 365, 12,486 births2011, Saturday: rank #270 of 365, 8,333 births2012, Monday: rank #165 of 366, 11,890 births2013, Tuesday: rank #109 of 365, 12,212 births2014, Wednesday: rank #123 of 365, 12,226 births2015, Thursday: rank #175 of 365, 11,918 births2016, Saturday: rank #269 of 366, 8,512 births2017, Sunday: rank #328 of 365, 7,328 births2018, Monday: rank #212 of 365, 11,185 births2019, Tuesday: rank #83 of 365, 11,684 births2020, Thursday: rank #51 of 366, 11,496 births2021, Friday: rank #62 of 365, 11,678 births2022, Saturday: rank #281 of 365, 7,931 births2023, Sunday: rank #345 of 365, 6,709 births2024, Tuesday: rank #92 of 366, 11,160 births1970198019902000201020202024

On a weekend it slips to #310, from #141 on a working day

Inductions and planned caesareans are booked on working days, so 27.7% 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
#112
Tue
#148
Wed
#139
Thu
#100
Fri
#280
Sat
#340
Sun
Most common year
2020#51 of 366Thursday · 11,496 births
Rarest year
1978#360 of 365Sunday · 7,408 births
Weekend years
16 of 5629% of the record2023 was the most recent
Around the world

June 4 in other countries

June 4 is the 163rd most common birthday in the United States. It is among the 50 most common in 1 of the 26 other countries, and ranges from #15 in Denmark to #340 in New Zealand.

  1. Denmark

    #15 of 366

    180 births on an average June 4

    Statistics Denmark, 2007–⁠2025
  2. Finland

    #72 of 366

    147 births on an average June 4

    Statistics Finland, 2010–⁠2025
  3. Norway

    #110 of 366

    162 births on an average June 4

    SSB, 2011–⁠2025
  4. Brazil

    #119 of 366

    8,225 births on an average June 4

    DATASUS, 1997–⁠2024
  5. Latvia

    #125 of 366

    55 births on an average June 4

    CSB, 1996–⁠2025
  6. Peru

    #131 of 366

    1,220 births on an average June 4

    INEI, 2019–⁠2025
  7. Switzerland

    #133 of 366

    225 births on an average June 4

    FSO, 1969–⁠2025
  8. Argentina

    #135 of 366

    1,560 births on an average June 4

    DEIS, 2018–⁠2023
  9. Germany

    #138 of 366

    2,058 births on an average June 4

    Destatis, 2014–⁠2025
  10. Guatemala

    #155 of 366

    952 births on an average June 4

    INE Guatemala, 2018–⁠2024
  11. Slovenia

    #174 of 366

    53 births on an average June 4

    SURS, 2000–⁠2025
  12. Netherlands

    #195 of 366

    495 births on an average June 4

    CBS, 1995–⁠2025
  13. Portugal

    #195 of 366

    297 births on an average June 4

    INE Portugal, 1980–⁠2025
  14. England & Wales

    #200 of 366

    1,778 births on an average June 4

    ONS, 1995–⁠2025
  15. Costa Rica

    #205 of 366

    166 births on an average June 4

    INEC Costa Rica, 2014–⁠2024
  16. Ecuador

    #212 of 366

    758 births on an average June 4

    INEC, 2013–⁠2023
  17. Belgium

    #238 of 366

    323 births on an average June 4

    Statbel, 1992–⁠2025
  18. Japan

    #240 of 366

    2,744 births on an average June 4

    e-Stat, 1996–⁠2025
  19. Chile

    #243 of 366

    682 births on an average June 4

    DEIS, 1990–⁠2017
  20. Hungary

    #263 of 366

    320 births on an average June 4

    KSH, 1970–⁠2020
  21. Philippines

    #264 of 366

    4,309 births on an average June 4

    PSA, 2006–⁠2024
  22. France

    #266 of 366

    2,104 births on an average June 4

    INSEE, 1998–⁠2024
  23. Malaysia

    #283 of 366

    1,369 births on an average June 4

    DOSM, 2000–⁠2022
  24. Ireland

    #301 of 366

    163 births on an average June 4

    CSO, 1980–⁠2023
  25. Mexico

    #337 of 366

    4,664 births on an average June 4

    INEGI, 2017–⁠2023
  26. New Zealand

    #340 of 366

    152 births on an average June 4

    Stats NZ, 1980–⁠2023
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June against the other eleven

June 4 is the 7th 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 4#163 of 36610,863 births a year

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Quick answers

How many babies are born on June 4?

About 10,863 a year in the United States. It was at its most common in 2020, when 11,496 babies were born and it ranked #51 of 366; at its rarest in 1978, with 7,408 births at #360.

Is June 4 a common birthday?

In the United States, June 4 is the 163rd most common of 366 dates, with about 10,863 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. 76 other dates are within 1% of June 4's count, spread from #128 to #204, 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 4 rarer in other countries?

In some. It is rarer in 16 of the 26 other countries we hold daily records for. It is at its rarest in New Zealand, at #340 of 366, and at its most common in Denmark, at #15.

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