Is March 14 a rare birthday? Ordinary

Rarer than 66% of all 366 dates.

March 14 #242
Most commonSeptember 9RarestDecember 25
Cartoon birthday scene for March 14: a child behind a cake whose candles spell the date
At a glance

March 14 in numbers

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

Born each year≈ 10,664in the United States — about 914,000 of them are alive today
In a full stadium134 peopleof 50,000 were born on March 14
On the day itselfEvery 8 secondsa baby is born on March 14 somewhere in the United States
Star signPiscesmore common than 18 of the 31 Pisces birthdays
Half-birthdaySeptember 14six months later, to the day
Conceived aroundJune 21A summer night, then.
Birth frequency by rank

Where March 14 ranks

From most common birthday to rarest, March 14 ranks in position #242, with 10,664 births a year. 241 other dates are more common. 91 dates are within 1% of its count, anywhere from #198 to #289, so the exact position is a close thing.

56 years of records

March 14 through the years

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

Fell on a weekdayOn a weekend
rarestmost
common
1969, Friday: rank #157 of 365, 10,034 births1970, Saturday: rank #298 of 365, 9,450 births1971, Sunday: rank #304 of 365, 8,838 births1972, Tuesday: rank #64 of 366, 9,593 births1973, Wednesday: rank #141 of 365, 8,913 births1974, Thursday: rank #255 of 365, 8,402 births1975, Friday: rank #107 of 365, 9,098 births1976, Sunday: rank #360 of 366, 7,134 births1977, Monday: rank #174 of 365, 9,378 births1978, Tuesday: rank #121 of 365, 9,537 births1979, Wednesday: rank #200 of 365, 9,629 births1980, Friday: rank #203 of 366, 9,961 births1981, Saturday: rank #287 of 365, 8,937 births1982, Sunday: rank #347 of 365, 8,402 births1983, Monday: rank #146 of 365, 10,434 births1984, Wednesday: rank #191 of 366, 10,176 births1985, Thursday: rank #157 of 365, 10,732 births1986, Friday: rank #122 of 365, 10,897 births1987, Saturday: rank #307 of 365, 8,837 births1988, Monday: rank #248 of 366, 10,379 births1989, Tuesday: rank #112 of 365, 11,926 births1990, Wednesday: rank #172 of 365, 12,009 births1991, Thursday: rank #141 of 365, 12,006 births1992, Saturday: rank #305 of 366, 9,152 births1993, Sunday: rank #351 of 365, 8,230 births1994, Monday: rank #231 of 365, 11,092 births1995, Tuesday: rank #108 of 365, 11,750 births1996, Thursday: rank #137 of 366, 11,578 births1997, Friday: rank #147 of 365, 11,573 births1998, Saturday: rank #283 of 365, 8,697 births1999, Sunday: rank #346 of 365, 7,549 births2000, Tuesday: rank #96 of 366, 12,523 births2001, Wednesday: rank #111 of 365, 12,367 births2002, Thursday: rank #118 of 365, 12,358 births2003, Friday: rank #126 of 365, 12,582 births2004, Sunday: rank #357 of 366, 7,301 births2005, Monday: rank #235 of 365, 11,860 births2006, Tuesday: rank #128 of 365, 13,139 births2007, Wednesday: rank #183 of 365, 13,087 births2008, Friday: rank #136 of 366, 13,118 births2009, Saturday: rank #284 of 365, 8,297 births2010, Sunday: rank #362 of 365, 6,745 births2011, Monday: rank #244 of 365, 11,131 births2012, Wednesday: rank #208 of 366, 11,638 births2013, Thursday: rank #189 of 365, 11,732 births2014, Friday: rank #214 of 365, 11,712 births2015, Saturday: rank #290 of 365, 8,217 births2016, Monday: rank #243 of 366, 11,236 births2017, Tuesday: rank #194 of 365, 11,404 births2018, Wednesday: rank #206 of 365, 11,239 births2019, Thursday: rank #187 of 365, 11,155 births2020, Saturday: rank #285 of 366, 7,613 births2021, Sunday: rank #360 of 365, 6,167 births2022, Monday: rank #240 of 365, 10,266 births2023, Tuesday: rank #210 of 365, 10,516 births2024, Thursday: rank #144 of 366, 10,925 births1970198019902000201020202024

On a weekend it slips to #320, from #169 on a working day

Inductions and planned caesareans are booked on working days, so 26.9% fewer babies arrive and the date falls down the ranking. Each bar is the average rank of the years it landed on that day.

#220
Mon
#129
Tue
#177
Wed
#166
Thu
#152
Fri
#292
Sat
#348
Sun
Most common year
1972#64 of 366Tuesday · 9,593 births
Rarest year
2010#362 of 365Sunday · 6,745 births
Weekend years
16 of 5629% of the record2021 was the most recent
Around the world

March 14 in other countries

March 14 is the 125th rarest birthday in the United States. It is among the 50 rarest in 2 of the 26 other countries, and ranges from #19 in Brazil to #340 in the Philippines.

  1. Brazil

    #19 of 366

    8,637 births on an average March 14

    DATASUS, 1997–⁠2024
  2. Argentina

    #43 of 366

    1,694 births on an average March 14

    DEIS, 2018–⁠2023
  3. Switzerland

    #80 of 366

    228 births on an average March 14

    FSO, 1969–⁠2025
  4. Chile

    #104 of 366

    700 births on an average March 14

    DEIS, 1990–⁠2017
  5. Finland

    #115 of 366

    145 births on an average March 14

    Statistics Finland, 2010–⁠2025
  6. Peru

    #115 of 366

    1,225 births on an average March 14

    INEI, 2019–⁠2025
  7. Ecuador

    #123 of 366

    778 births on an average March 14

    INEC, 2013–⁠2023
  8. Hungary

    #129 of 366

    330 births on an average March 14

    KSH, 1970–⁠2020
  9. Ireland

    #132 of 366

    170 births on an average March 14

    CSO, 1980–⁠2023
  10. Norway

    #144 of 366

    160 births on an average March 14

    SSB, 2011–⁠2025
  11. Guatemala

    #160 of 366

    951 births on an average March 14

    INE Guatemala, 2018–⁠2024
  12. Slovenia

    #203 of 366

    52 births on an average March 14

    SURS, 2000–⁠2025
  13. Latvia

    #216 of 366

    53 births on an average March 14

    CSB, 1996–⁠2025
  14. Germany

    #234 of 366

    1,974 births on an average March 14

    Destatis, 2014–⁠2025
  15. England & Wales

    #236 of 366

    1,765 births on an average March 14

    ONS, 1995–⁠2025
  16. Costa Rica

    #247 of 366

    164 births on an average March 14

    INEC Costa Rica, 2014–⁠2024
  17. Netherlands

    #252 of 366

    489 births on an average March 14

    CBS, 1995–⁠2025
  18. Malaysia

    #255 of 366

    1,377 births on an average March 14

    DOSM, 2000–⁠2022
  19. Portugal

    #258 of 366

    291 births on an average March 14

    INE Portugal, 1980–⁠2025
  20. Mexico

    #267 of 366

    4,853 births on an average March 14

    INEGI, 2017–⁠2023
  21. Belgium

    #273 of 366

    320 births on an average March 14

    Statbel, 1992–⁠2025
  22. Denmark

    #273 of 366

    160 births on an average March 14

    Statistics Denmark, 2007–⁠2025
  23. Japan

    #282 of 366

    2,713 births on an average March 14

    e-Stat, 1996–⁠2025
  24. New Zealand

    #282 of 366

    154 births on an average March 14

    Stats NZ, 1980–⁠2023
  25. France

    #329 of 366

    2,063 births on an average March 14

    INSEE, 1998–⁠2024
  26. Philippines

    #340 of 366

    4,068 births on an average March 14

    PSA, 2006–⁠2024
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March against the other eleven

March 14 is the 14th 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.

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

March 14#242 of 36610,664 births a year

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Quick answers

How many babies are born on March 14?

About 10,664 a year in the United States. It was at its most common in 1972, when 9,593 babies were born and it ranked #64 of 366; at its rarest in 2010, with 6,745 births at #362.

Is March 14 a common birthday?

In the United States, March 14 is the 125th rarest of 366 dates, with about 10,664 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. 91 other dates are within 1% of March 14's count, spread from #198 to #289, 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 14 rarer in other countries?

In some. It is rarer in 11 of the 26 other countries we hold daily records for. It is at its rarest in the Philippines, at #340 of 366, and at its most common in Brazil, at #19.

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