Is March 22 a rare birthday? Ordinary

Rarer than 52% of all 366 dates.

March 22 #190
Most commonSeptember 9RarestDecember 25
Cartoon birthday scene for March 22: a child behind a cake whose candles spell the date
At a glance

March 22 in numbers

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

Born each year≈ 10,787in the United States — about 920,000 of them are alive today
In a full stadium136 peopleof 50,000 were born on March 22
On the day itselfEvery 8 secondsa baby is born on March 22 somewhere in the United States
Star signAriesmore common than 28 of the 30 Aries birthdays
Half-birthdaySeptember 22six months later, to the day
Conceived aroundJune 29Right around the Fourth of July.
Birth frequency by rank

Where March 22 ranks

From most common birthday to rarest, March 22 ranks in position #190, with 10,787 births a year. 189 other dates are more common. 89 dates are within 1% of its count, anywhere from #150 to #239, so the exact position is a close thing.

March 22#190 · 10,787 a year11,9006,546#1#366
56 years of records

March 22 through the years

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

Fell on a weekdayOn a weekend
rarestmost
common
1969, Saturday: rank #313 of 365, 8,962 births1970, Sunday: rank #344 of 365, 8,784 births1971, Monday: rank #141 of 365, 10,142 births1972, Wednesday: rank #215 of 366, 8,921 births1973, Thursday: rank #172 of 365, 8,804 births1974, Friday: rank #200 of 365, 8,668 births1975, Saturday: rank #270 of 365, 8,038 births1976, Monday: rank #230 of 366, 8,515 births1977, Tuesday: rank #128 of 365, 9,534 births1978, Wednesday: rank #159 of 365, 9,321 births1979, Thursday: rank #207 of 365, 9,597 births1980, Saturday: rank #294 of 366, 8,902 births1981, Sunday: rank #336 of 365, 8,458 births1982, Monday: rank #238 of 365, 10,056 births1983, Tuesday: rank #83 of 365, 10,692 births1984, Thursday: rank #149 of 366, 10,353 births1985, Friday: rank #147 of 365, 10,792 births1986, Saturday: rank #323 of 365, 8,554 births1987, Sunday: rank #354 of 365, 8,307 births1988, Tuesday: rank #139 of 366, 11,288 births1989, Wednesday: rank #139 of 365, 11,718 births1990, Thursday: rank #103 of 365, 12,339 births1991, Friday: rank #76 of 365, 12,444 births1992, Sunday: rank #333 of 366, 8,819 births1993, Monday: rank #221 of 365, 11,326 births1994, Tuesday: rank #100 of 365, 11,964 births1995, Wednesday: rank #153 of 365, 11,485 births1996, Friday: rank #113 of 366, 11,727 births1997, Saturday: rank #283 of 365, 8,641 births1998, Sunday: rank #356 of 365, 7,625 births1999, Monday: rank #248 of 365, 10,743 births2000, Wednesday: rank #177 of 366, 12,047 births2001, Thursday: rank #132 of 365, 12,262 births2002, Friday: rank #177 of 365, 12,056 births2003, Saturday: rank #297 of 365, 8,372 births2004, Monday: rank #234 of 366, 11,710 births2005, Tuesday: rank #79 of 365, 13,151 births2006, Wednesday: rank #181 of 365, 12,829 births2007, Thursday: rank #160 of 365, 13,221 births2008, Saturday: rank #295 of 366, 8,413 births2009, Sunday: rank #354 of 365, 7,104 births2010, Monday: rank #245 of 365, 11,519 births2011, Tuesday: rank #112 of 365, 12,332 births2012, Thursday: rank #182 of 366, 11,796 births2013, Friday: rank #172 of 365, 11,837 births2014, Saturday: rank #297 of 365, 8,093 births2015, Sunday: rank #357 of 365, 7,171 births2016, Tuesday: rank #118 of 366, 12,106 births2017, Wednesday: rank #193 of 365, 11,407 births2018, Thursday: rank #173 of 365, 11,397 births2019, Friday: rank #183 of 365, 11,169 births2020, Sunday: rank #354 of 366, 6,366 births2021, Monday: rank #221 of 365, 10,471 births2022, Tuesday: rank #133 of 365, 11,131 births2023, Wednesday: rank #181 of 365, 10,699 births2024, Friday: rank #164 of 366, 10,837 births1970198019902000201020202024

On a weekend it slips to #323, from #164 on a working day

Inductions and planned caesareans are booked on working days, so 26.5% fewer babies arrive and the date falls down the ranking. Each bar is the average rank of the years it landed on that day.

#222
Mon
#112
Tue
#175
Wed
#160
Thu
#154
Fri
#297
Sat
#349
Sun
Most common year
1991#76 of 365Friday · 12,444 births
Rarest year
2015#357 of 365Sunday · 7,171 births
Weekend years
16 of 5629% of the record2020 was the most recent
Around the world

March 22 in other countries

March 22 is the 177th rarest birthday in the United States. It is among the 50 rarest in 6 of the 26 other countries, and ranges from #11 in Argentina to #355 in New Zealand.

  1. Argentina

    #11 of 366

    1,782 births on an average March 22

    DEIS, 2018–⁠2023

  2. Brazil

    #37 of 366

    8,585 births on an average March 22

    DATASUS, 1997–⁠2024

  3. Peru

    #78 of 366

    1,244 births on an average March 22

    INEI, 2019–⁠2025

  4. Guatemala

    #81 of 366

    978 births on an average March 22

    INE Guatemala, 2018–⁠2024

  5. Latvia

    #91 of 366

    56 births on an average March 22

    CSB, 1996–⁠2025

  6. Ireland

    #95 of 366

    171 births on an average March 22

    CSO, 1980–⁠2023

  7. Switzerland

    #98 of 366

    227 births on an average March 22

    FSO, 1969–⁠2025

  8. Ecuador

    #150 of 366

    771 births on an average March 22

    INEC, 2013–⁠2023

  9. Chile

    #192 of 366

    688 births on an average March 22

    DEIS, 1990–⁠2017

  10. Finland

    #199 of 366

    140 births on an average March 22

    Statistics Finland, 2010–⁠2025

  11. Hungary

    #199 of 366

    326 births on an average March 22

    KSH, 1970–⁠2020

  12. Norway

    #207 of 366

    154 births on an average March 22

    SSB, 2011–⁠2025

  13. Mexico

    #229 of 366

    4,925 births on an average March 22

    INEGI, 2017–⁠2023

  14. Costa Rica

    #242 of 366

    164 births on an average March 22

    INEC Costa Rica, 2014–⁠2024

  15. Malaysia

    #250 of 366

    1,379 births on an average March 22

    DOSM, 2000–⁠2022

  16. Netherlands

    #260 of 366

    489 births on an average March 22

    CBS, 1995–⁠2025

  17. Belgium

    #264 of 366

    320 births on an average March 22

    Statbel, 1992–⁠2025

  18. Germany

    #313 of 366

    1,923 births on an average March 22

    Destatis, 2014–⁠2025

  19. England & Wales

    #315 of 366

    1,746 births on an average March 22

    ONS, 1995–⁠2025

  20. Denmark

    #316 of 366

    156 births on an average March 22

    Statistics Denmark, 2007–⁠2025

  21. France

    #317 of 366

    2,077 births on an average March 22

    INSEE, 1998–⁠2024

  22. Slovenia

    #319 of 366

    50 births on an average March 22

    SURS, 2000–⁠2025

  23. Portugal

    #328 of 366

    283 births on an average March 22

    INE Portugal, 1980–⁠2025

  24. Japan

    #332 of 366

    2,650 births on an average March 22

    e-Stat, 1996–⁠2025

  25. Philippines

    #334 of 366

    4,086 births on an average March 22

    PSA, 2006–⁠2024

  26. New Zealand

    #355 of 366

    150 births on an average March 22

    Stats NZ, 1980–⁠2023
Birthday twins

Famous people born on March 22

Ranked by how often people looked them up on Wikipedia last year.

Reese WitherspoonReese WitherspoonAmerican actress · born 1976William ShatnerWilliam ShatnerCanadian actor · born 1931Cole HauserCole HauserAmerican actor · born 1975Dave PortnoyDave PortnoyAmerican entrepreneur · born 1977Andrew Lloyd WebberAndrew Lloyd WebberEnglish theatre composer · born 1948Constance WuConstance WuAmerican actress · born 1982J. J. WattJ. J. WattAmerican football player and television analyst · born 1989Mick SchumacherMick SchumacherGerman racing driver · born 1999
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March against the other eleven

March 22 is the 4th 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.

10,394
Jan
10,637
Feb
10,658
Mar
10,557
Apr
10,702
May
10,990
Jun
11,238
Jul
11,405
Aug
11,448
Sep
10,872
Oct
10,616
Nov
10,633
Dec
March 21
Births a year10,771
Rank#197
March 22
Births a year10,787
Rank#190
March 23
Births a year10,743
Rank#208

March 22 is the 2nd most common of the 15 days around it

#218
15
#225
16
#184
17
#279
18
#293
19
#215
20
#197
21
#190
22
#208
23
#271
24
#280
25
#298
26
#273
27
#244
28
#254
29
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 22#190 of 36610,787 births a year

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Questions

Quick answers

How many babies are born on March 22?

About 10,787 a year in the United States. It was at its most common in 1991, when 12,444 babies were born and it ranked #76 of 365; at its rarest in 2015, with 7,171 births at #357.

Is March 22 a common birthday?

In the United States, March 22 is the 177th rarest of 366 dates, with about 10,787 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. 89 other dates are within 1% of March 22's count, spread from #150 to #239, 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 22 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 #355 of 366, and at its most common in Argentina, at #11.

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