Is May 8 a rare birthday? Ordinary
Rarer than 66% of all 366 dates.
May 8 in numbers
The odds, the star sign and the other dates that come with it.
Where May 8 ranks
From most common birthday to rarest, May 8 ranks in position #243, with 10,664 births a year. 242 other dates are more common. 91 dates are within 1% of its count, anywhere from #198 to #289, so the exact position is a close thing.
May 8 through the years
Where it ranked in the United States, year by year.
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May 8 in other countries
May 8 is the 124th rarest birthday in the United States. It is among the 50 rarest in 1 of the 26 other countries, and ranges from #9 in Japan to #361 in France.
Japan
#9 of 366
3,078 births on an average May 8
e-Stat, 1996–2025Switzerland
#14 of 366
233 births on an average May 8
FSO, 1969–2025Ireland
#29 of 366
175 births on an average May 8
CSO, 1980–2023Norway
#29 of 366
170 births on an average May 8
SSB, 2011–2025Brazil
#31 of 366
8,602 births on an average May 8
DATASUS, 1997–2024Ecuador
#35 of 366
801 births on an average May 8
INEC, 2013–2023Latvia
#44 of 366
57 births on an average May 8
CSB, 1996–2025Portugal
#56 of 366
307 births on an average May 8
INE Portugal, 1980–2025Peru
#90 of 366
1,236 births on an average May 8
INEI, 2019–2025Argentina
#114 of 366
1,586 births on an average May 8
DEIS, 2018–2023Netherlands
#117 of 366
510 births on an average May 8
CBS, 1995–2025Denmark
#121 of 366
169 births on an average May 8
Statistics Denmark, 2007–2025Philippines
#123 of 366
4,621 births on an average May 8
PSA, 2006–2024Malaysia
#131 of 366
1,409 births on an average May 8
DOSM, 2000–2022Slovenia
#135 of 366
54 births on an average May 8
SURS, 2000–2025Germany
#144 of 366
2,049 births on an average May 8
Destatis, 2014–2025England & Wales
#160 of 366
1,795 births on an average May 8
ONS, 1995–2025Belgium
#177 of 366
327 births on an average May 8
Statbel, 1992–2025Finland
#177 of 366
141 births on an average May 8
Statistics Finland, 2010–2025Hungary
#191 of 366
326 births on an average May 8
KSH, 1970–2020Guatemala
#196 of 366
943 births on an average May 8
INE Guatemala, 2018–2024Mexico
#202 of 366
4,964 births on an average May 8
INEGI, 2017–2023Costa Rica
#229 of 366
164 births on an average May 8
INEC Costa Rica, 2014–2024Chile
#311 of 366
672 births on an average May 8
DEIS, 1990–2017New Zealand
#314 of 366
153 births on an average May 8
Stats NZ, 1980–2023France
#361 of 366
1,908 births on an average May 8
INSEE, 1998–2024
Famous people born on May 8
Ranked by how often people looked them up on Wikipedia last year.
David AttenboroughEnglish broadcaster and natural historian · born 1926
Harry S. TrumanPresident of the United States from 1945 to 1953 · born 1884
Luis EnriqueSpanish football manager · born 1970
Enrique IglesiasSpanish singer · born 1975
Melissa GilbertAmerican actress · born 1964
Trisha PaytasAmerican media personality · born 1988
Thomas PynchonAmerican novelist · born 1937
Robert JohnsonAmerican blues musician and songwriter · born 1911May against the other eleven
May 8 is the 12th 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 8?
About 10,664 a year in the United States. It was at its most common in 2001, when 12,751 babies were born and it ranked #62 of 365; at its rarest in 2022, with 6,479 births at #359.
Is May 8 a common birthday?
In the United States, May 8 is the 124th rarest of 366 dates, with about 10,664 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. 91 other dates are within 1% of May 8's count, spread from #198 to #289, 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 8 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 France, at #361 of 366, and at its most common in Japan, at #9.
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