Is November 11 a rare birthday? Ordinary

More common than 51% of all 366 dates.

November 11 #180
Most commonSeptember 9RarestDecember 25
Cartoon birthday scene for November 11: a child behind a cake whose candles spell the date
At a glance

November 11 in numbers

The odds, the star sign and the other dates that come with it.

Born each year≈ 10,813in the United States — about 929,000 of them are alive today
In a full stadium136 peopleof 50,000 were born on November 11
On the day itselfEvery 8 secondsa baby is born on November 11 somewhere in the United States
Star signScorpiorarer than 16 of the 30 Scorpio birthdays
Half-birthdayMay 11six months later, to the day
Conceived aroundFebruary 18Right around Valentine's Day.
Birth frequency by rank

Where November 11 ranks

From most common birthday to rarest, November 11 ranks in position #180, with 10,813 births a year. 186 other dates are rarer. 83 dates are within 1% of its count, anywhere from #143 to #226, so the exact position is a close thing.

56 years of records

November 11 through the years

Where it ranked in the United States, year by year.

Fell on a weekdayOn a weekend
rarestmost
common
1969, Tuesday: rank #27 of 365, 10,878 births1970, Wednesday: rank #128 of 365, 10,612 births1971, Thursday: rank #248 of 365, 9,560 births1972, Saturday: rank #272 of 366, 8,524 births1973, Sunday: rank #337 of 365, 7,420 births1974, Monday: rank #92 of 365, 9,223 births1975, Tuesday: rank #146 of 365, 8,926 births1976, Thursday: rank #72 of 366, 9,429 births1977, Friday: rank #208 of 365, 9,245 births1978, Saturday: rank #290 of 365, 8,367 births1979, Sunday: rank #285 of 365, 8,760 births1980, Tuesday: rank #109 of 366, 10,326 births1981, Wednesday: rank #213 of 365, 10,050 births1982, Thursday: rank #162 of 365, 10,418 births1983, Friday: rank #236 of 365, 10,109 births1984, Sunday: rank #306 of 366, 8,576 births1985, Monday: rank #230 of 365, 10,348 births1986, Tuesday: rank #131 of 365, 10,875 births1987, Wednesday: rank #160 of 365, 11,006 births1988, Friday: rank #159 of 366, 11,160 births1989, Saturday: rank #299 of 365, 9,306 births1990, Sunday: rank #338 of 365, 9,032 births1991, Monday: rank #237 of 365, 11,352 births1992, Wednesday: rank #145 of 366, 11,916 births1993, Thursday: rank #223 of 365, 11,306 births1994, Friday: rank #181 of 365, 11,533 births1995, Saturday: rank #301 of 365, 8,522 births1996, Monday: rank #239 of 366, 10,586 births1997, Tuesday: rank #80 of 365, 12,022 births1998, Wednesday: rank #176 of 365, 11,662 births1999, Thursday: rank #162 of 365, 11,802 births2000, Saturday: rank #272 of 366, 9,052 births2001, Sunday: rank #346 of 365, 7,458 births2002, Monday: rank #235 of 365, 11,310 births2003, Tuesday: rank #83 of 365, 12,917 births2004, Thursday: rank #117 of 366, 12,728 births2005, Friday: rank #199 of 365, 12,385 births2006, Saturday: rank #278 of 365, 8,679 births2007, Sunday: rank #325 of 365, 7,820 births2008, Tuesday: rank #142 of 366, 13,096 births2009, Wednesday: rank #159 of 365, 12,671 births2010, Thursday: rank #96 of 365, 12,598 births2011, Friday: rank #1 of 365, 14,242 births2012, Sunday: rank #337 of 366, 7,147 births2013, Monday: rank #236 of 365, 11,309 births2014, Tuesday: rank #55 of 365, 12,758 births2015, Wednesday: rank #103 of 365, 12,311 births2016, Friday: rank #166 of 366, 11,851 births2017, Saturday: rank #279 of 365, 8,174 births2018, Sunday: rank #330 of 365, 7,103 births2019, Monday: rank #217 of 365, 10,919 births2020, Wednesday: rank #67 of 366, 11,357 births2021, Thursday: rank #37 of 365, 11,901 births2022, Friday: rank #37 of 365, 11,813 births2023, Saturday: rank #271 of 365, 8,054 births2024, Monday: rank #209 of 366, 10,586 births1970198019902000201020202024

On a weekend it slips to #304, from #148 on a working day

Inductions and planned caesareans are booked on working days, so 26.8% fewer babies arrive and the date falls down the ranking. Each bar is the average rank of the years it landed on that day.

#212
Mon
#97
Tue
#144
Wed
#140
Thu
#148
Fri
#283
Sat
#326
Sun
Most common year
2011#1 of 365Friday · 14,242 births
Rarest year
2001#346 of 365Sunday · 7,458 births
Weekend years
16 of 5629% of the record2023 was the most recent
Around the world

November 11 in other countries

November 11 is the 180th most common birthday in the United States. It is among the 50 most common in 3 of the 26 other countries, and ranges from #2 in Malaysia to #363 in Belgium.

  1. Malaysia

    #2 of 366

    1,558 births on an average November 11

    DOSM, 2000–⁠2022
  2. Philippines

    #37 of 366

    5,026 births on an average November 11

    PSA, 2006–⁠2024
  3. Costa Rica

    #44 of 366

    179 births on an average November 11

    INEC Costa Rica, 2014–⁠2024
  4. Guatemala

    #82 of 366

    978 births on an average November 11

    INE Guatemala, 2018–⁠2024
  5. Japan

    #90 of 366

    2,862 births on an average November 11

    e-Stat, 1996–⁠2025
  6. New Zealand

    #94 of 366

    160 births on an average November 11

    Stats NZ, 1980–⁠2023
  7. Portugal

    #96 of 366

    303 births on an average November 11

    INE Portugal, 1980–⁠2025
  8. Chile

    #103 of 366

    701 births on an average November 11

    DEIS, 1990–⁠2017
  9. Ireland

    #105 of 366

    171 births on an average November 11

    CSO, 1980–⁠2023
  10. Ecuador

    #119 of 366

    780 births on an average November 11

    INEC, 2013–⁠2023
  11. Mexico

    #126 of 366

    5,155 births on an average November 11

    INEGI, 2017–⁠2023
  12. England & Wales

    #138 of 366

    1,803 births on an average November 11

    ONS, 1995–⁠2025
  13. Germany

    #154 of 366

    2,040 births on an average November 11

    Destatis, 2014–⁠2025
  14. Finland

    #160 of 366

    142 births on an average November 11

    Statistics Finland, 2010–⁠2025
  15. Slovenia

    #184 of 366

    53 births on an average November 11

    SURS, 2000–⁠2025
  16. Denmark

    #191 of 366

    164 births on an average November 11

    Statistics Denmark, 2007–⁠2025
  17. Netherlands

    #234 of 366

    491 births on an average November 11

    CBS, 1995–⁠2025
  18. Peru

    #246 of 366

    1,172 births on an average November 11

    INEI, 2019–⁠2025
  19. Latvia

    #249 of 366

    52 births on an average November 11

    CSB, 1996–⁠2025
  20. Brazil

    #267 of 366

    7,704 births on an average November 11

    DATASUS, 1997–⁠2024
  21. Switzerland

    #286 of 366

    215 births on an average November 11

    FSO, 1969–⁠2025
  22. Norway

    #297 of 366

    144 births on an average November 11

    SSB, 2011–⁠2025
  23. Argentina

    #319 of 366

    1,376 births on an average November 11

    DEIS, 2018–⁠2023
  24. Hungary

    #348 of 366

    307 births on an average November 11

    KSH, 1970–⁠2020
  25. France

    #359 of 366

    1,927 births on an average November 11

    INSEE, 1998–⁠2024
  26. Belgium

    #363 of 366

    220 births on an average November 11

    Statbel, 1992–⁠2025
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November against the other eleven

November 11 is the 14th most common of the 30 days in November. All November birthdays.

November is the 3rd rarest month of the year

An average November day sees 10,616 births in the United States. September is the busiest month, January the quietest.

The whole year

Every date on one grid

In the United States, September is the busiest month of the year to be born in and January the quietest.

Each square is one date

November 11#180 of 36610,813 births a year

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Quick answers

How many babies are born on November 11?

About 10,813 a year in the United States. It was at its most common in 2011, when 14,242 babies were born and it ranked #1 of 365; at its rarest in 2001, with 7,458 births at #346.

Is November 11 a common birthday?

In the United States, November 11 is the 180th most common of 366 dates, with about 10,813 births a year. That makes it an ordinary birthday: neither rare nor especially common.

What is the rarest November birthday?

In the United States, November 26: the 7th rarest of all 366 dates, with about 9,615 births a year. The most common November birthday is November 1, the 102nd most common of the year.

How precise is the ranking?

In the middle of the calendar it is not exact. 83 other dates are within 1% of November 11's count, spread from #143 to #226, 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 November 11 rarer in other countries?

In some. It is rarer in 12 of the 26 other countries we hold daily records for. It is at its rarest in Belgium, at #363 of 366, and at its most common in Malaysia, at #2.

Our data

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.

Read the full methodology →

Updated October 2026