Is May 1 a rare birthday? Ordinary
Rarer than 55% of all 366 dates.
May 1 in numbers
The odds, the star sign and the other dates that come with it.
Where May 1 ranks
From most common birthday to rarest, May 1 ranks in position #200, with 10,764 births a year. 199 other dates are more common. 87 dates are within 1% of its count, anywhere from #158 to #245, so the exact position is a close thing.
May 1 through the years
Where it ranked in the United States, year by year.
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May 1 in other countries
May 1 is the 167th rarest birthday in the United States. It is among the 50 rarest in 15 of the 26 other countries, and ranges from #5 in Japan to #365 in Malaysia.
Japan
#5 of 366
3,132 births on an average May 1
e-Stat, 1996–2025Switzerland
#93 of 366
227 births on an average May 1
FSO, 1969–2025Ireland
#124 of 366
170 births on an average May 1
CSO, 1980–2023Netherlands
#150 of 366
499 births on an average May 1
CBS, 1995–2025England & Wales
#209 of 366
1,776 births on an average May 1
ONS, 1995–2025Philippines
#233 of 366
4,358 births on an average May 1
PSA, 2006–2024Norway
#243 of 366
151 births on an average May 1
SSB, 2011–2025New Zealand
#254 of 366
155 births on an average May 1
Stats NZ, 1980–2023Portugal
#276 of 366
290 births on an average May 1
INE Portugal, 1980–2025Brazil
#279 of 366
7,647 births on an average May 1
DATASUS, 1997–2024Ecuador
#301 of 366
728 births on an average May 1
INEC, 2013–2023Peru
#329 of 366
1,122 births on an average May 1
INEI, 2019–2025Guatemala
#333 of 366
900 births on an average May 1
INE Guatemala, 2018–2024Slovenia
#353 of 366
47 births on an average May 1
SURS, 2000–2025Argentina
#357 of 366
1,126 births on an average May 1
DEIS, 2018–2023Latvia
#357 of 366
45 births on an average May 1
CSB, 1996–2025Finland
#358 of 366
124 births on an average May 1
Statistics Finland, 2010–2025Denmark
#359 of 366
148 births on an average May 1
Statistics Denmark, 2007–2025Hungary
#359 of 366
287 births on an average May 1
KSH, 1970–2020Mexico
#360 of 366
4,363 births on an average May 1
INEGI, 2017–2023Belgium
#361 of 366
234 births on an average May 1
Statbel, 1992–2025Chile
#361 of 366
499 births on an average May 1
DEIS, 1990–2017Germany
#361 of 366
1,720 births on an average May 1
Destatis, 2014–2025Costa Rica
#362 of 366
147 births on an average May 1
INEC Costa Rica, 2014–2024France
#363 of 366
1,874 births on an average May 1
INSEE, 1998–2024Malaysia
#365 of 366
1,238 births on an average May 1
DOSM, 2000–2022
Famous people born on May 1
Ranked by how often people looked them up on Wikipedia last year.
Wes AndersonAmerican filmmaker · born 1969
Anushka SharmaIndian actress and film producer · born 1988
Ajith KumarIndian actor and racing driver · born 1971
Chet HolmgrenAmerican basketball player · born 2002
Joanna LumleyIndian-born British actress · born 1946
Tiffany StrattonAmerican professional wrestler · born 1999
Charli D'AmelioAmerican social media personality · born 2004
Tim McGrawAmerican country singer and actor · born 1967May against the other eleven
May 1 is the 11th most common of the 31 days in May. All May birthdays.
May is the 6th most common month of the year
An average May day sees 10,702 births in the United States. September is the busiest month, January the quietest.
Quick answers
How many babies are born on May 1?
About 10,764 a year in the United States. It was at its most common in 2001, when 12,745 babies were born and it ranked #63 of 365; at its rarest in 1983, with 8,170 births at #360.
Is May 1 a common birthday?
In the United States, May 1 is the 167th rarest of 366 dates, with about 10,764 births a year. That makes it an ordinary birthday: neither rare nor especially common.
What is the rarest May birthday?
In the United States, May 27: the 20th rarest of all 366 dates, with about 10,322 births a year. The most common May birthday is May 24, the 105th 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 May 1's count, spread from #158 to #245, 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 May 1 rarer in other countries?
In some. It is rarer in 22 of the 26 other countries we hold daily records for. It is at its rarest in Malaysia, at #365 of 366, and at its most common in Japan, at #5.
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