Is May 29 a rare birthday? Rare
Rarer than 91% of all 366 dates.
May 29 in numbers
The odds, the star sign and the other dates that come with it.
Where May 29 ranks
From most common birthday to rarest, May 29 ranks in position #333, with 10,401 births a year. 332 other dates are more common. 39 dates are within 1% of its count, anywhere from #309 to #348, so the exact position is a close thing.
May 29 through the years
Where it ranked in the United States, year by year.
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May 29 in other countries
May 29 is the 34th rarest birthday in the United States. It is among the 50 rarest in 4 of the 26 other countries, and ranges from #32 in Latvia to #340 in Costa Rica.
Latvia
#32 of 366
58 births on an average May 29
CSB, 1996–2025Brazil
#108 of 366
8,262 births on an average May 29
DATASUS, 1997–2024Norway
#125 of 366
161 births on an average May 29
SSB, 2011–2025Denmark
#129 of 366
169 births on an average May 29
Statistics Denmark, 2007–2025Ecuador
#141 of 366
773 births on an average May 29
INEC, 2013–2023Portugal
#144 of 366
300 births on an average May 29
INE Portugal, 1980–2025Argentina
#154 of 366
1,539 births on an average May 29
DEIS, 2018–2023Switzerland
#188 of 366
223 births on an average May 29
FSO, 1969–2025Peru
#204 of 366
1,192 births on an average May 29
INEI, 2019–2025Ireland
#205 of 366
167 births on an average May 29
CSO, 1980–2023Slovenia
#213 of 366
52 births on an average May 29
SURS, 2000–2025Germany
#229 of 366
1,978 births on an average May 29
Destatis, 2014–2025Malaysia
#248 of 366
1,379 births on an average May 29
DOSM, 2000–2022England & Wales
#253 of 366
1,760 births on an average May 29
ONS, 1995–2025Hungary
#254 of 366
320 births on an average May 29
KSH, 1970–2020Netherlands
#272 of 366
488 births on an average May 29
CBS, 1995–2025Finland
#290 of 366
136 births on an average May 29
Statistics Finland, 2010–2025Japan
#293 of 366
2,707 births on an average May 29
e-Stat, 1996–2025Mexico
#298 of 366
4,774 births on an average May 29
INEGI, 2017–2023Guatemala
#303 of 366
910 births on an average May 29
INE Guatemala, 2018–2024Philippines
#303 of 366
4,231 births on an average May 29
PSA, 2006–2024New Zealand
#309 of 366
154 births on an average May 29
Stats NZ, 1980–2023France
#318 of 366
2,077 births on an average May 29
INSEE, 1998–2024Chile
#319 of 366
670 births on an average May 29
DEIS, 1990–2017Belgium
#338 of 366
308 births on an average May 29
Statbel, 1992–2025Costa Rica
#340 of 366
157 births on an average May 29
INEC Costa Rica, 2014–2024
Famous people born on May 29
Ranked by how often people looked them up on Wikipedia last year.
John F. KennedyPresident of the United States from 1961 to 1963 · born 1917
Riley KeoughAmerican actress · born 1989
Charles II of EnglandKing of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1660 to 1685 · born 1630
Maika MonroeAmerican actress · born 1993
Carmelo AnthonyAmerican basketball player · born 1984
Mel BBritish singer and TV personality · born 1975
Noel GallagherEnglish musician · born 1967
Puka NacuaAmerican football player · born 2001May against the other eleven
May 29 is the 4th 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 29?
About 10,401 a year in the United States. It was at its most common in 2002, when 13,213 babies were born and it ranked #27 of 365; at its rarest in 2005, with 7,180 births at #353.
Is May 29 a common birthday?
In the United States, May 29 is the 34th rarest of 366 dates, with about 10,401 births a year. That puts it on the rarer side of the calendar.
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. 39 other dates are within 1% of May 29's count, spread from #309 to #348, 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 29 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 Costa Rica, at #340 of 366, and at its most common in Latvia, at #32.
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