Is March 3 a rare birthday? Ordinary
Rarer than 52% of all 366 dates.
March 3 in numbers
The odds, the star sign and the other dates that come with it.
Where March 3 ranks
From most common birthday to rarest, March 3 ranks in position #191, with 10,784 births a year. 190 other dates are more common. 87 dates are within 1% of its count, anywhere from #152 to #239, so the exact position is a close thing.
March 3 through the years
Where it ranked in the United States, year by year.
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March 3 in other countries
March 3 is the 176th rarest birthday in the United States. It is among the 50 rarest in 1 of the 26 other countries, and ranges from #18 in Brazil to #320 in the Philippines.
Brazil
#18 of 366
8,642 births on an average March 3
DATASUS, 1997–2024Peru
#40 of 366
1,265 births on an average March 3
INEI, 2019–2025Malaysia
#64 of 366
1,446 births on an average March 3
DOSM, 2000–2022Argentina
#75 of 366
1,626 births on an average March 3
DEIS, 2018–2023Switzerland
#78 of 366
228 births on an average March 3
FSO, 1969–2025New Zealand
#86 of 366
160 births on an average March 3
Stats NZ, 1980–2023Hungary
#91 of 366
334 births on an average March 3
KSH, 1970–2020Chile
#99 of 366
701 births on an average March 3
DEIS, 1990–2017Latvia
#101 of 366
56 births on an average March 3
CSB, 1996–2025Japan
#126 of 366
2,823 births on an average March 3
e-Stat, 1996–2025Slovenia
#130 of 366
54 births on an average March 3
SURS, 2000–2025Finland
#146 of 366
143 births on an average March 3
Statistics Finland, 2010–2025Ireland
#147 of 366
169 births on an average March 3
CSO, 1980–2023Germany
#150 of 366
2,043 births on an average March 3
Destatis, 2014–2025Denmark
#172 of 366
165 births on an average March 3
Statistics Denmark, 2007–2025Norway
#176 of 366
157 births on an average March 3
SSB, 2011–2025Portugal
#203 of 366
296 births on an average March 3
INE Portugal, 1980–2025England & Wales
#216 of 366
1,771 births on an average March 3
ONS, 1995–2025Ecuador
#217 of 366
758 births on an average March 3
INEC, 2013–2023France
#218 of 366
2,128 births on an average March 3
INSEE, 1998–2024Costa Rica
#231 of 366
164 births on an average March 3
INEC Costa Rica, 2014–2024Mexico
#231 of 366
4,921 births on an average March 3
INEGI, 2017–2023Netherlands
#241 of 366
490 births on an average March 3
CBS, 1995–2025Belgium
#262 of 366
320 births on an average March 3
Statbel, 1992–2025Guatemala
#279 of 366
919 births on an average March 3
INE Guatemala, 2018–2024Philippines
#320 of 366
4,153 births on an average March 3
PSA, 2006–2024
Famous people born on March 3
Ranked by how often people looked them up on Wikipedia last year.
Julie BowenAmerican actress · born 1970
Jessica BielAmerican actress · born 1982
Jayson TatumAmerican basketball player · born 1998
Camila CabelloAmerican singer-songwriter · born 1997
Brian CoxEnglish physicist and musician · born 1968
Shraddha KapoorIndian actress · born 1987
Ronan KeatingIrish singer · born 1977
Alexander Graham BellInventor of the telephone · born 1847March against the other eleven
March 3 is the 5th 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 3?
About 10,784 a year in the United States. It was at its most common in 1970, when 11,306 babies were born and it ranked #39 of 365; at its rarest in 2019, with 6,749 births at #346.
Is March 3 a common birthday?
In the United States, March 3 is the 176th rarest of 366 dates, with about 10,784 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. 87 other dates are within 1% of March 3's count, spread from #152 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 3 rarer in other countries?
In some. It is rarer in 10 of the 26 other countries we hold daily records for. It is at its rarest in the Philippines, at #320 of 366, and at its most common in Brazil, at #18.
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