Is March 28 a rare birthday? Ordinary

Rarer than 67% of all 366 dates.

March 28 #244
Most commonSeptember 9RarestDecember 25
Cartoon birthday scene for March 28: a child behind a cake whose candles spell the date
At a glance

March 28 in numbers

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

Born each year≈ 10,663in the United States — about 913,000 of them are alive today
In a full stadium134 peopleof 50,000 were born on March 28
On the day itselfEvery 8 secondsa baby is born on March 28 somewhere in the United States
Star signAriesmore common than 23 of the 30 Aries birthdays
Half-birthdaySeptember 28six months later, to the day
Conceived aroundJuly 5Right around the Fourth of July.
Birth frequency by rank

Where March 28 ranks

From most common birthday to rarest, March 28 ranks in position #244, with 10,663 births a year. 243 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 28 through the years

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

Fell on a weekdayOn a weekend
rarestmost
common
1969, Friday: rank #112 of 365, 10,326 births1970, Saturday: rank #345 of 365, 8,764 births1971, Sunday: rank #321 of 365, 8,672 births1972, Tuesday: rank #139 of 366, 9,267 births1973, Wednesday: rank #191 of 365, 8,752 births1974, Thursday: rank #246 of 365, 8,461 births1975, Friday: rank #185 of 365, 8,799 births1976, Sunday: rank #352 of 366, 7,267 births1977, Monday: rank #192 of 365, 9,297 births1978, Tuesday: rank #164 of 365, 9,303 births1979, Wednesday: rank #144 of 365, 9,825 births1980, Friday: rank #155 of 366, 10,115 births1981, Saturday: rank #296 of 365, 8,835 births1982, Sunday: rank #357 of 365, 8,214 births1983, Monday: rank #199 of 365, 10,251 births1984, Wednesday: rank #157 of 366, 10,300 births1985, Thursday: rank #126 of 365, 10,890 births1986, Friday: rank #145 of 365, 10,813 births1987, Saturday: rank #302 of 365, 8,855 births1988, Monday: rank #232 of 366, 10,780 births1989, Tuesday: rank #119 of 365, 11,854 births1990, Wednesday: rank #123 of 365, 12,220 births1991, Thursday: rank #84 of 365, 12,377 births1992, Saturday: rank #285 of 366, 9,379 births1993, Sunday: rank #335 of 365, 8,497 births1994, Monday: rank #237 of 365, 11,051 births1995, Tuesday: rank #143 of 365, 11,563 births1996, Thursday: rank #112 of 366, 11,728 births1997, Friday: rank #212 of 365, 11,184 births1998, Saturday: rank #306 of 365, 8,399 births1999, Sunday: rank #362 of 365, 7,389 births2000, Tuesday: rank #118 of 366, 12,394 births2001, Wednesday: rank #159 of 365, 12,175 births2002, Thursday: rank #136 of 365, 12,265 births2003, Friday: rank #168 of 365, 12,317 births2004, Sunday: rank #345 of 366, 7,434 births2005, Monday: rank #244 of 365, 11,630 births2006, Tuesday: rank #147 of 365, 13,034 births2007, Wednesday: rank #164 of 365, 13,202 births2008, Friday: rank #205 of 366, 12,686 births2009, Saturday: rank #280 of 365, 8,312 births2010, Sunday: rank #354 of 365, 6,853 births2011, Monday: rank #238 of 365, 11,354 births2012, Wednesday: rank #164 of 366, 11,897 births2013, Thursday: rank #162 of 365, 11,905 births2014, Friday: rank #219 of 365, 11,700 births2015, Saturday: rank #300 of 365, 8,071 births2016, Monday: rank #250 of 366, 10,969 births2017, Tuesday: rank #130 of 365, 11,743 births2018, Wednesday: rank #154 of 365, 11,488 births2019, Thursday: rank #191 of 365, 11,123 births2020, Saturday: rank #302 of 366, 7,434 births2021, Sunday: rank #352 of 365, 6,393 births2022, Monday: rank #232 of 365, 10,373 births2023, Tuesday: rank #200 of 365, 10,592 births2024, Thursday: rank #156 of 366, 10,888 births1970198019902000201020202024

On a weekend it slips to #325, from #171 on a working day

Inductions and planned caesareans are booked on working days, so 27.3% fewer babies arrive and the date falls down the ranking. Each bar is the average rank of the years it landed on that day.

#228
Mon
#145
Tue
#157
Wed
#152
Thu
#175
Fri
#302
Sat
#347
Sun
Most common year
1991#84 of 365Thursday · 12,377 births
Rarest year
1999#362 of 365Sunday · 7,389 births
Weekend years
16 of 5629% of the record2021 was the most recent
Around the world

March 28 in other countries

March 28 is the 123rd rarest birthday in the United States. It is among the 50 rarest in 8 of the 26 other countries, and ranges from #19 in Peru to #353 in Denmark.

  1. Peru

    #19 of 366

    1,282 births on an average March 28

    INEI, 2019–⁠2025
  2. Argentina

    #36 of 366

    1,710 births on an average March 28

    DEIS, 2018–⁠2023
  3. Ecuador

    #51 of 366

    797 births on an average March 28

    INEC, 2013–⁠2023
  4. Brazil

    #60 of 366

    8,533 births on an average March 28

    DATASUS, 1997–⁠2024
  5. Finland

    #132 of 366

    144 births on an average March 28

    Statistics Finland, 2010–⁠2025
  6. Chile

    #144 of 366

    693 births on an average March 28

    DEIS, 1990–⁠2017
  7. Latvia

    #159 of 366

    55 births on an average March 28

    CSB, 1996–⁠2025
  8. Malaysia

    #199 of 366

    1,391 births on an average March 28

    DOSM, 2000–⁠2022
  9. New Zealand

    #209 of 366

    157 births on an average March 28

    Stats NZ, 1980–⁠2023
  10. Hungary

    #221 of 366

    324 births on an average March 28

    KSH, 1970–⁠2020
  11. Mexico

    #232 of 366

    4,917 births on an average March 28

    INEGI, 2017–⁠2023
  12. Norway

    #232 of 366

    152 births on an average March 28

    SSB, 2011–⁠2025
  13. Netherlands

    #235 of 366

    491 births on an average March 28

    CBS, 1995–⁠2025
  14. Switzerland

    #246 of 366

    220 births on an average March 28

    FSO, 1969–⁠2025
  15. Belgium

    #269 of 366

    320 births on an average March 28

    Statbel, 1992–⁠2025
  16. Costa Rica

    #280 of 366

    162 births on an average March 28

    INEC Costa Rica, 2014–⁠2024
  17. Ireland

    #302 of 366

    163 births on an average March 28

    CSO, 1980–⁠2023
  18. Philippines

    #315 of 366

    4,172 births on an average March 28

    PSA, 2006–⁠2024
  19. England & Wales

    #324 of 366

    1,742 births on an average March 28

    ONS, 1995–⁠2025
  20. Guatemala

    #326 of 366

    901 births on an average March 28

    INE Guatemala, 2018–⁠2024
  21. Portugal

    #329 of 366

    283 births on an average March 28

    INE Portugal, 1980–⁠2025
  22. Germany

    #332 of 366

    1,905 births on an average March 28

    Destatis, 2014–⁠2025
  23. Japan

    #341 of 366

    2,601 births on an average March 28

    e-Stat, 1996–⁠2025
  24. Slovenia

    #343 of 366

    48 births on an average March 28

    SURS, 2000–⁠2025
  25. France

    #352 of 366

    2,018 births on an average March 28

    INSEE, 1998–⁠2024
  26. Denmark

    #353 of 366

    151 births on an average March 28

    Statistics Denmark, 2007–⁠2025
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March against the other eleven

March 28 is the 15th 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 28#244 of 36610,663 births a year

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Quick answers

How many babies are born on March 28?

About 10,663 a year in the United States. It was at its most common in 1991, when 12,377 babies were born and it ranked #84 of 365; at its rarest in 1999, with 7,389 births at #362.

Is March 28 a common birthday?

In the United States, March 28 is the 123rd rarest of 366 dates, with about 10,663 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 28'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 28 rarer in other countries?

In some. It is rarer in 13 of the 26 other countries we hold daily records for. It is at its rarest in Denmark, at #353 of 366, and at its most common in Peru, 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