Is May 19 a rare birthday? Ordinary
Rarer than 64% of all 366 dates.
May 19 in numbers
The odds, the star sign and the other dates that come with it.
Where May 19 ranks
From most common birthday to rarest, May 19 ranks in position #233, with 10,691 births a year. 232 other dates are more common. 93 dates are within 1% of its count, anywhere from #184 to #277, so the exact position is a close thing.
May 19 through the years
Where it ranked in the United States, year by year.
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May 19 in other countries
May 19 is the 134th rarest birthday in the United States. It is among the 50 rarest in 3 of the 26 other countries, and ranges from #69 in Switzerland to #343 in New Zealand.
Switzerland
#69 of 366
229 births on an average May 19
FSO, 1969–2025Portugal
#71 of 366
305 births on an average May 19
INE Portugal, 1980–2025Belgium
#75 of 366
336 births on an average May 19
Statbel, 1992–2025Brazil
#86 of 366
8,429 births on an average May 19
DATASUS, 1997–2024Ecuador
#110 of 366
781 births on an average May 19
INEC, 2013–2023France
#131 of 366
2,179 births on an average May 19
INSEE, 1998–2024Ireland
#146 of 366
169 births on an average May 19
CSO, 1980–2023England & Wales
#148 of 366
1,798 births on an average May 19
ONS, 1995–2025Germany
#151 of 366
2,043 births on an average May 19
Destatis, 2014–2025Denmark
#157 of 366
166 births on an average May 19
Statistics Denmark, 2007–2025Slovenia
#160 of 366
54 births on an average May 19
SURS, 2000–2025Finland
#174 of 366
141 births on an average May 19
Statistics Finland, 2010–2025Latvia
#183 of 366
54 births on an average May 19
CSB, 1996–2025Malaysia
#184 of 366
1,395 births on an average May 19
DOSM, 2000–2022Norway
#191 of 366
156 births on an average May 19
SSB, 2011–2025Argentina
#209 of 366
1,486 births on an average May 19
DEIS, 2018–2023Hungary
#226 of 366
324 births on an average May 19
KSH, 1970–2020Chile
#238 of 366
683 births on an average May 19
DEIS, 1990–2017Philippines
#247 of 366
4,336 births on an average May 19
PSA, 2006–2024Peru
#273 of 366
1,157 births on an average May 19
INEI, 2019–2025Mexico
#283 of 366
4,825 births on an average May 19
INEGI, 2017–2023Costa Rica
#287 of 366
162 births on an average May 19
INEC Costa Rica, 2014–2024Netherlands
#301 of 366
483 births on an average May 19
CBS, 1995–2025Japan
#323 of 366
2,672 births on an average May 19
e-Stat, 1996–2025Guatemala
#339 of 366
892 births on an average May 19
INE Guatemala, 2018–2024New Zealand
#343 of 366
152 births on an average May 19
Stats NZ, 1980–2023
Famous people born on May 19
Ranked by how often people looked them up on Wikipedia last year.
Malcolm XAmerican civil rights activist · born 1925
JoJo SiwaAmerican singer and dancer · born 2003
André the GiantFrench wrestler and actor · born 1946
Lainey WilsonAmerican country singer · born 1992
Ho Chi MinhLeader of North Vietnam from 1945 to 1969 · born 1890
Mustafa Kemal AtatürkPresident of Turkey from 1923 to 1938 · born 1881
Charlotte of Mecklenburg-StrelitzQueen of Great Britain and Ireland from 1761 to 1818 · born 1744
Grace JonesJamaican singer, actress and model · born 1948May against the other eleven
May 19 is the 14th 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 19?
About 10,691 a year in the United States. It was at its most common in 1992, when 12,659 babies were born and it ranked #23 of 366; at its rarest in 1974, with 6,896 births at #364.
Is May 19 a common birthday?
In the United States, May 19 is the 134th rarest of 366 dates, with about 10,691 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. 93 other dates are within 1% of May 19's count, spread from #184 to #277, 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 19 rarer in other countries?
In some. It is rarer in 9 of the 26 other countries we hold daily records for. It is at its rarest in New Zealand, at #343 of 366, and at its most common in Switzerland, at #69.
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