Is May 5 a rare birthday? Ordinary
Rarer than 55% of all 366 dates.
May 5 in numbers
The odds, the star sign and the other dates that come with it.
Where May 5 ranks
From most common birthday to rarest, May 5 ranks in position #201, with 10,762 births a year. 200 other dates are more common. 90 dates are within 1% of its count, anywhere from #158 to #248, so the exact position is a close thing.
May 5 through the years
Where it ranked in the United States, year by year.
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May 5 in other countries
May 5 is the 166th rarest birthday in the United States. It is among the 50 rarest in 2 of the 26 other countries, and ranges from #2 in Brazil to #361 in the Netherlands.
Brazil
#2 of 366
8,812 births on an average May 5
DATASUS, 1997–2024Switzerland
#5 of 366
236 births on an average May 5
FSO, 1969–2025Ecuador
#22 of 366
807 births on an average May 5
INEC, 2013–2023Portugal
#23 of 366
314 births on an average May 5
INE Portugal, 1980–2025Costa Rica
#45 of 366
178 births on an average May 5
INEC Costa Rica, 2014–2024Slovenia
#48 of 366
57 births on an average May 5
SURS, 2000–2025Ireland
#66 of 366
173 births on an average May 5
CSO, 1980–2023Malaysia
#75 of 366
1,440 births on an average May 5
DOSM, 2000–2022Latvia
#78 of 366
56 births on an average May 5
CSB, 1996–2025Peru
#87 of 366
1,237 births on an average May 5
INEI, 2019–2025New Zealand
#102 of 366
160 births on an average May 5
Stats NZ, 1980–2023Argentina
#105 of 366
1,595 births on an average May 5
DEIS, 2018–2023Hungary
#106 of 366
332 births on an average May 5
KSH, 1970–2020Belgium
#118 of 366
332 births on an average May 5
Statbel, 1992–2025Germany
#125 of 366
2,086 births on an average May 5
Destatis, 2014–2025France
#127 of 366
2,183 births on an average May 5
INSEE, 1998–2024Norway
#131 of 366
160 births on an average May 5
SSB, 2011–2025Philippines
#146 of 366
4,535 births on an average May 5
PSA, 2006–2024Guatemala
#176 of 366
947 births on an average May 5
INE Guatemala, 2018–2024Finland
#180 of 366
141 births on an average May 5
Statistics Finland, 2010–2025Chile
#204 of 366
687 births on an average May 5
DEIS, 1990–2017Denmark
#234 of 366
162 births on an average May 5
Statistics Denmark, 2007–2025England & Wales
#284 of 366
1,754 births on an average May 5
ONS, 1995–2025Mexico
#310 of 366
4,728 births on an average May 5
INEGI, 2017–2023Japan
#357 of 366
2,152 births on an average May 5
e-Stat, 1996–2025Netherlands
#361 of 366
453 births on an average May 5
CBS, 1995–2025
Famous people born on May 5
Ranked by how often people looked them up on Wikipedia last year.
Carlos AlcarazSpanish tennis player · born 2003
Aryna SabalenkaBelarusian tennis player · born 1998
Henry CavillBritish actor · born 1983
Karl MarxGerman philosopher and socialist · born 1818
Tatiana SchlossbergAmerican journalist and author · born 1990
AdeleEnglish singer-songwriter · born 1988
Danielle FishelAmerican actress · born 1981
Richard E. GrantEnglish actor · born 1957May against the other eleven
May 5 is the 12th 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 5?
About 10,762 a year in the United States. It was at its most common in 2005, when 14,104 babies were born and it ranked #8 of 365; at its rarest in 2013, with 6,563 births at #365.
Is May 5 a common birthday?
In the United States, May 5 is the 166th rarest of 366 dates, with about 10,762 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 5's count, spread from #158 to #248, 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 5 rarer in other countries?
In some. It is rarer in 6 of the 26 other countries we hold daily records for. It is at its rarest in the Netherlands, at #361 of 366, and at its most common in Brazil, at #2.
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