Is May 3 a rare birthday? Ordinary
Rarer than 61% of all 366 dates.
May 3 in numbers
The odds, the star sign and the other dates that come with it.
Where May 3 ranks
From most common birthday to rarest, May 3 ranks in position #222, with 10,716 births a year. 221 other dates are more common. 93 dates are within 1% of its count, anywhere from #178 to #271, so the exact position is a close thing.
May 3 through the years
Where it ranked in the United States, year by year.
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May 3 in other countries
May 3 is the 145th rarest birthday in the United States. It is among the 50 rarest in 2 of the 26 other countries, and ranges from #6 in Switzerland to #354 in Japan.
Switzerland
#6 of 366
235 births on an average May 3
FSO, 1969–2025Argentina
#18 of 366
1,745 births on an average May 3
DEIS, 2018–2023Belgium
#30 of 366
343 births on an average May 3
Statbel, 1992–2025Brazil
#38 of 366
8,584 births on an average May 3
DATASUS, 1997–2024Portugal
#43 of 366
309 births on an average May 3
INE Portugal, 1980–2025Norway
#51 of 366
167 births on an average May 3
SSB, 2011–2025Peru
#54 of 366
1,258 births on an average May 3
INEI, 2019–2025Guatemala
#67 of 366
983 births on an average May 3
INE Guatemala, 2018–2024Ecuador
#70 of 366
790 births on an average May 3
INEC, 2013–2023France
#88 of 366
2,201 births on an average May 3
INSEE, 1998–2024Netherlands
#93 of 366
516 births on an average May 3
CBS, 1995–2025Slovenia
#98 of 366
55 births on an average May 3
SURS, 2000–2025Latvia
#105 of 366
56 births on an average May 3
CSB, 1996–2025Chile
#145 of 366
693 births on an average May 3
DEIS, 1990–2017Finland
#167 of 366
142 births on an average May 3
Statistics Finland, 2010–2025Germany
#167 of 366
2,024 births on an average May 3
Destatis, 2014–2025Mexico
#174 of 366
5,046 births on an average May 3
INEGI, 2017–2023Denmark
#184 of 366
164 births on an average May 3
Statistics Denmark, 2007–2025Hungary
#190 of 366
326 births on an average May 3
KSH, 1970–2020Ireland
#193 of 366
167 births on an average May 3
CSO, 1980–2023Philippines
#193 of 366
4,414 births on an average May 3
PSA, 2006–2024Costa Rica
#200 of 366
166 births on an average May 3
INEC Costa Rica, 2014–2024England & Wales
#220 of 366
1,770 births on an average May 3
ONS, 1995–2025Malaysia
#231 of 366
1,384 births on an average May 3
DOSM, 2000–2022New Zealand
#339 of 366
152 births on an average May 3
Stats NZ, 1980–2023Japan
#354 of 366
2,215 births on an average May 3
e-Stat, 1996–2025
Famous people born on May 3
Ranked by how often people looked them up on Wikipedia last year.
Rachel ZeglerAmerican actress and singer · born 2001
Pete SeegerAmerican musician and social activist · born 1919
Florian WirtzGerman footballer · born 2003
Bing CrosbyAmerican singer and actor · born 1903
Pom KlementieffFrench actress · born 1986
Christina HendricksAmerican actress · born 1975
James BrownAmerican musician · born 1933
Niccolò MachiavelliFlorentine statesman, diplomat, and political theorist · born 1469May against the other eleven
May 3 is the 15th 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 3?
About 10,716 a year in the United States. It was at its most common in 1994, when 12,023 babies were born and it ranked #86 of 365; at its rarest in 1970, with 8,036 births at #364.
Is May 3 a common birthday?
In the United States, May 3 is the 145th rarest of 366 dates, with about 10,716 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 3's count, spread from #178 to #271, 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 3 rarer in other countries?
In some. It is rarer in 3 of the 26 other countries we hold daily records for. It is at its rarest in Japan, at #354 of 366, and at its most common in Switzerland, at #6.
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