Is March 1 a rare birthday? Ordinary
More common than 60% of all 366 dates.
March 1 in numbers
The odds, the star sign and the other dates that come with it.
Where March 1 ranks
From most common birthday to rarest, March 1 ranks in position #147, with 10,910 births a year. 219 other dates are rarer. 63 dates are within 1% of its count, anywhere from #119 to #182, so the exact position is a close thing.
March 1 through the years
Where it ranked in the United States, year by year.
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March 1 in other countries
March 1 is the 147th most common birthday in the United States. It is among the 50 most common in 3 of the 26 other countries, and ranges from #26 in Brazil to #288 in the Philippines.
Brazil
#26 of 366
8,615 births on an average March 1
DATASUS, 1997–2024Argentina
#37 of 366
1,708 births on an average March 1
DEIS, 2018–2023Switzerland
#42 of 366
231 births on an average March 1
FSO, 1969–2025Guatemala
#54 of 366
991 births on an average March 1
INE Guatemala, 2018–2024Peru
#77 of 366
1,244 births on an average March 1
INEI, 2019–2025Portugal
#91 of 366
303 births on an average March 1
INE Portugal, 1980–2025Ireland
#94 of 366
171 births on an average March 1
CSO, 1980–2023Latvia
#112 of 366
55 births on an average March 1
CSB, 1996–2025Hungary
#136 of 366
330 births on an average March 1
KSH, 1970–2020Slovenia
#149 of 366
54 births on an average March 1
SURS, 2000–2025Japan
#161 of 366
2,793 births on an average March 1
e-Stat, 1996–2025Mexico
#164 of 366
5,056 births on an average March 1
INEGI, 2017–2023New Zealand
#173 of 366
157 births on an average March 1
Stats NZ, 1980–2023Malaysia
#176 of 366
1,399 births on an average March 1
DOSM, 2000–2022Norway
#186 of 366
156 births on an average March 1
SSB, 2011–2025Costa Rica
#190 of 366
167 births on an average March 1
INEC Costa Rica, 2014–2024Ecuador
#193 of 366
761 births on an average March 1
INEC, 2013–2023Chile
#196 of 366
688 births on an average March 1
DEIS, 1990–2017England & Wales
#197 of 366
1,778 births on an average March 1
ONS, 1995–2025Netherlands
#240 of 366
490 births on an average March 1
CBS, 1995–2025Germany
#244 of 366
1,965 births on an average March 1
Destatis, 2014–2025France
#255 of 366
2,113 births on an average March 1
INSEE, 1998–2024Finland
#258 of 366
137 births on an average March 1
Statistics Finland, 2010–2025Belgium
#261 of 366
321 births on an average March 1
Statbel, 1992–2025Denmark
#287 of 366
159 births on an average March 1
Statistics Denmark, 2007–2025Philippines
#288 of 366
4,270 births on an average March 1
PSA, 2006–2024
Famous people born on March 1
Ranked by how often people looked them up on Wikipedia last year.
Justin BieberCanadian singer · born 1994
Javier BardemSpanish actor · born 1969
Ron HowardAmerican filmmaker and actor · born 1954
Jensen AcklesAmerican actor and musician · born 1978
Lupita Nyong'oActress · born 1983
Tim DalyAmerican actor · born 1956
Tyreek HillAmerican football player · born 1994
KeshaAmerican singer and rapper · born 1987March against the other eleven
March 1 is the most common of the 31 days in March. All March birthdays.
March is the 6th rarest month of the year
An average March day sees 10,658 births in the United States. September is the busiest month, January the quietest.
Quick answers
How many babies are born on March 1?
About 10,910 a year in the United States. It was at its most common in 2016, when 12,531 babies were born and it ranked #56 of 366; at its rarest in 1992, with 8,475 births at #356.
Is March 1 a common birthday?
In the United States, March 1 is the 147th most common of 366 dates, with about 10,910 births a year. That makes it an ordinary birthday: neither rare nor especially common.
What is the rarest March birthday?
In the United States, March 13: the 22nd rarest of all 366 dates, with about 10,340 births a year. The most common March birthday is March 1, the 147th most common of the year.
How precise is the ranking?
In the middle of the calendar it is not exact. 63 other dates are within 1% of March 1's count, spread from #119 to #182, 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 March 1 rarer in other countries?
In some. It is rarer in 17 of the 26 other countries we hold daily records for. It is at its rarest in the Philippines, at #288 of 366, and at its most common in Brazil, at #26.
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.
Updated October 2026