Is May 14 a rare birthday? Ordinary
Rarer than 65% of all 366 dates.
May 14 in numbers
The odds, the star sign and the other dates that come with it.
Where May 14 ranks
From most common birthday to rarest, May 14 ranks in position #237, with 10,685 births a year. 236 other dates are more common. 90 dates are within 1% of its count, anywhere from #189 to #279, so the exact position is a close thing.
May 14 through the years
Where it ranked in the United States, year by year.
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May 14 in other countries
May 14 is the 130th rarest birthday in the United States. It is not among the 50 rarest in any of the 26 other countries, and ranges from #41 in Norway to #307 in New Zealand.
Norway
#41 of 366
169 births on an average May 14
SSB, 2011–2025Ecuador
#55 of 366
795 births on an average May 14
INEC, 2013–2023Brazil
#57 of 366
8,544 births on an average May 14
DATASUS, 1997–2024Portugal
#60 of 366
306 births on an average May 14
INE Portugal, 1980–2025Peru
#73 of 366
1,247 births on an average May 14
INEI, 2019–2025Latvia
#74 of 366
57 births on an average May 14
CSB, 1996–2025Switzerland
#90 of 366
227 births on an average May 14
FSO, 1969–2025Finland
#95 of 366
146 births on an average May 14
Statistics Finland, 2010–2025Hungary
#116 of 366
331 births on an average May 14
KSH, 1970–2020Argentina
#119 of 366
1,582 births on an average May 14
DEIS, 2018–2023Denmark
#119 of 366
170 births on an average May 14
Statistics Denmark, 2007–2025Belgium
#121 of 366
332 births on an average May 14
Statbel, 1992–2025Ireland
#135 of 366
169 births on an average May 14
CSO, 1980–2023Netherlands
#152 of 366
499 births on an average May 14
CBS, 1995–2025Slovenia
#159 of 366
54 births on an average May 14
SURS, 2000–2025England & Wales
#162 of 366
1,794 births on an average May 14
ONS, 1995–2025Japan
#163 of 366
2,790 births on an average May 14
e-Stat, 1996–2025France
#167 of 366
2,154 births on an average May 14
INSEE, 1998–2024Costa Rica
#203 of 366
166 births on an average May 14
INEC Costa Rica, 2014–2024Chile
#208 of 366
687 births on an average May 14
DEIS, 1990–2017Malaysia
#217 of 366
1,386 births on an average May 14
DOSM, 2000–2022Guatemala
#220 of 366
938 births on an average May 14
INE Guatemala, 2018–2024Germany
#223 of 366
1,983 births on an average May 14
Destatis, 2014–2025Philippines
#226 of 366
4,373 births on an average May 14
PSA, 2006–2024Mexico
#302 of 366
4,752 births on an average May 14
INEGI, 2017–2023New Zealand
#307 of 366
154 births on an average May 14
Stats NZ, 1980–2023
Famous people born on May 14
Ranked by how often people looked them up on Wikipedia last year.
SambhajiChhatrapati of the Marathas from 1681 to 1689 · born 1657
Mark ZuckerbergAmerican businessman and programmer · born 1984
Cate BlanchettAustralian actor · born 1969
Sofia CoppolaAmerican filmmaker and actress · born 1971
Rob GronkowskiAmerican football player · born 1989
George LucasAmerican filmmaker and entrepreneur · born 1944
Miranda CosgroveAmerican actress and producer · born 1993
David ByrneAmerican musician · born 1952May against the other eleven
May 14 is the 13th rarest 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 14?
About 10,685 a year in the United States. It was at its most common in 1991, when 12,779 babies were born and it ranked #37 of 365; at its rarest in 1978, with 7,390 births at #362.
Is May 14 a common birthday?
In the United States, May 14 is the 130th rarest of 366 dates, with about 10,685 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. 90 other dates are within 1% of May 14's count, spread from #189 to #279, 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 14 rarer in other countries?
In some. It is rarer in 2 of the 26 other countries we hold daily records for. It is at its rarest in New Zealand, at #307 of 366, and at its most common in Norway, at #41.
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