Is March 7 a rare birthday? Ordinary

Rarer than 66% of all 366 dates.

March 7 #241
Most commonSeptember 9RarestDecember 25
Cartoon birthday scene for March 7: a child behind a cake whose candles spell the date
At a glance

March 7 in numbers

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

Born each year≈ 10,667in the United States — about 915,000 of them are alive today
In a full stadium134 peopleof 50,000 were born on March 7
On the day itselfEvery 8 secondsa baby is born on March 7 somewhere in the United States
Star signPiscesmore common than 19 of the 31 Pisces birthdays
Half-birthdaySeptember 7six months later, to the day
Conceived aroundJune 14A summer night, then.
Birth frequency by rank

Where March 7 ranks

From most common birthday to rarest, March 7 ranks in position #241, with 10,667 births a year. 240 other dates are more common. 93 dates are within 1% of its count, anywhere from #195 to #288, so the exact position is a close thing.

56 years of records

March 7 through the years

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

Fell on a weekdayOn a weekend
rarestmost
common
1969, Friday: rank #176 of 365, 9,948 births1970, Saturday: rank #296 of 365, 9,460 births1971, Sunday: rank #314 of 365, 8,744 births1972, Tuesday: rank #86 of 366, 9,482 births1973, Wednesday: rank #95 of 365, 9,087 births1974, Thursday: rank #205 of 365, 8,640 births1975, Friday: rank #112 of 365, 9,055 births1976, Sunday: rank #353 of 366, 7,252 births1977, Monday: rank #179 of 365, 9,359 births1978, Tuesday: rank #112 of 365, 9,585 births1979, Wednesday: rank #206 of 365, 9,603 births1980, Friday: rank #179 of 366, 10,043 births1981, Saturday: rank #308 of 365, 8,697 births1982, Sunday: rank #348 of 365, 8,399 births1983, Monday: rank #165 of 365, 10,353 births1984, Wednesday: rank #147 of 366, 10,359 births1985, Thursday: rank #209 of 365, 10,509 births1986, Friday: rank #101 of 365, 11,033 births1987, Saturday: rank #316 of 365, 8,754 births1988, Monday: rank #246 of 366, 10,536 births1989, Tuesday: rank #170 of 365, 11,551 births1990, Wednesday: rank #175 of 365, 11,983 births1991, Thursday: rank #113 of 365, 12,156 births1992, Saturday: rank #298 of 366, 9,199 births1993, Sunday: rank #333 of 365, 8,509 births1994, Monday: rank #240 of 365, 10,996 births1995, Tuesday: rank #70 of 365, 12,115 births1996, Thursday: rank #165 of 366, 11,446 births1997, Friday: rank #149 of 365, 11,571 births1998, Saturday: rank #294 of 365, 8,510 births1999, Sunday: rank #344 of 365, 7,578 births2000, Tuesday: rank #164 of 366, 12,133 births2001, Wednesday: rank #180 of 365, 12,094 births2002, Thursday: rank #130 of 365, 12,299 births2003, Friday: rank #178 of 365, 12,259 births2004, Sunday: rank #361 of 366, 7,205 births2005, Monday: rank #245 of 365, 11,599 births2006, Tuesday: rank #140 of 365, 13,052 births2007, Wednesday: rank #147 of 365, 13,281 births2008, Friday: rank #175 of 366, 12,944 births2009, Saturday: rank #274 of 365, 8,453 births2010, Sunday: rank #357 of 365, 6,827 births2011, Monday: rank #240 of 365, 11,336 births2012, Wednesday: rank #181 of 366, 11,800 births2013, Thursday: rank #178 of 365, 11,807 births2014, Friday: rank #176 of 365, 11,937 births2015, Saturday: rank #308 of 365, 7,980 births2016, Monday: rank #241 of 366, 11,304 births2017, Tuesday: rank #181 of 365, 11,466 births2018, Wednesday: rank #174 of 365, 11,395 births2019, Thursday: rank #185 of 365, 11,160 births2020, Saturday: rank #299 of 366, 7,453 births2021, Sunday: rank #356 of 365, 6,320 births2022, Monday: rank #234 of 365, 10,355 births2023, Tuesday: rank #163 of 365, 10,804 births2024, Thursday: rank #98 of 366, 11,133 births1970198019902000201020202024

On a weekend it slips to #322, from #168 on a working day

Inductions and planned caesareans are booked on working days, so 27.1% fewer babies arrive and the date falls down the ranking. Each bar is the average rank of the years it landed on that day.

#224
Mon
#136
Tue
#163
Wed
#160
Thu
#156
Fri
#299
Sat
#346
Sun
Most common year
1995#70 of 365Tuesday · 12,115 births
Rarest year
2004#361 of 366Sunday · 7,205 births
Weekend years
16 of 5629% of the record2021 was the most recent
Around the world

March 7 in other countries

March 7 is the 126th rarest birthday in the United States. It is among the 50 rarest in 2 of the 26 other countries, and ranges from #6 in Peru to #346 in the Philippines.

  1. Peru

    #6 of 366

    1,301 births on an average March 7

    INEI, 2019–⁠2025
  2. Argentina

    #22 of 366

    1,742 births on an average March 7

    DEIS, 2018–⁠2023
  3. Brazil

    #66 of 366

    8,504 births on an average March 7

    DATASUS, 1997–⁠2024
  4. Ecuador

    #90 of 366

    787 births on an average March 7

    INEC, 2013–⁠2023
  5. Chile

    #108 of 366

    700 births on an average March 7

    DEIS, 1990–⁠2017
  6. Ireland

    #108 of 366

    170 births on an average March 7

    CSO, 1980–⁠2023
  7. Latvia

    #113 of 366

    55 births on an average March 7

    CSB, 1996–⁠2025
  8. Hungary

    #163 of 366

    328 births on an average March 7

    KSH, 1970–⁠2020
  9. New Zealand

    #166 of 366

    157 births on an average March 7

    Stats NZ, 1980–⁠2023
  10. Denmark

    #177 of 366

    165 births on an average March 7

    Statistics Denmark, 2007–⁠2025
  11. England & Wales

    #185 of 366

    1,783 births on an average March 7

    ONS, 1995–⁠2025
  12. Guatemala

    #193 of 366

    944 births on an average March 7

    INE Guatemala, 2018–⁠2024
  13. Switzerland

    #211 of 366

    222 births on an average March 7

    FSO, 1969–⁠2025
  14. Finland

    #220 of 366

    139 births on an average March 7

    Statistics Finland, 2010–⁠2025
  15. Norway

    #228 of 366

    153 births on an average March 7

    SSB, 2011–⁠2025
  16. Costa Rica

    #244 of 366

    164 births on an average March 7

    INEC Costa Rica, 2014–⁠2024
  17. Portugal

    #247 of 366

    292 births on an average March 7

    INE Portugal, 1980–⁠2025
  18. Japan

    #254 of 366

    2,733 births on an average March 7

    e-Stat, 1996–⁠2025
  19. Mexico

    #256 of 366

    4,869 births on an average March 7

    INEGI, 2017–⁠2023
  20. Netherlands

    #256 of 366

    489 births on an average March 7

    CBS, 1995–⁠2025
  21. Germany

    #267 of 366

    1,952 births on an average March 7

    Destatis, 2014–⁠2025
  22. Belgium

    #293 of 366

    318 births on an average March 7

    Statbel, 1992–⁠2025
  23. Slovenia

    #296 of 366

    50 births on an average March 7

    SURS, 2000–⁠2025
  24. Malaysia

    #309 of 366

    1,354 births on an average March 7

    DOSM, 2000–⁠2022
  25. France

    #321 of 366

    2,073 births on an average March 7

    INSEE, 1998–⁠2024
  26. Philippines

    #346 of 366

    4,040 births on an average March 7

    PSA, 2006–⁠2024
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March against the other eleven

March 7 is the 13th 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 7#241 of 36610,667 births a year

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Quick answers

How many babies are born on March 7?

About 10,667 a year in the United States. It was at its most common in 1995, when 12,115 babies were born and it ranked #70 of 365; at its rarest in 2004, with 7,205 births at #361.

Is March 7 a common birthday?

In the United States, March 7 is the 126th rarest of 366 dates, with about 10,667 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. 93 other dates are within 1% of March 7's count, spread from #195 to #288, 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 7 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 #346 of 366, and at its most common in Peru, at #6.

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