Is November 19 a rare birthday? Ordinary

More common than 54% of all 366 dates.

November 19 #168
Most commonSeptember 9RarestDecember 25
Cartoon birthday scene for November 19: a child behind a cake whose candles spell the date
At a glance

November 19 in numbers

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

Born each year≈ 10,858in the United States — about 933,000 of them are alive today
In a full stadium137 peopleof 50,000 were born on November 19
On the day itselfEvery 8 secondsa baby is born on November 19 somewhere in the United States
Star signScorpiomore common than 17 of the 30 Scorpio birthdays
Half-birthdayMay 19six months later, to the day
Conceived aroundFebruary 26A long winter night, then.
Birth frequency by rank

Where November 19 ranks

From most common birthday to rarest, November 19 ranks in position #168, with 10,858 births a year. 198 other dates are rarer. 76 dates are within 1% of its count, anywhere from #130 to #206, so the exact position is a close thing.

56 years of records

November 19 through the years

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

Fell on a weekdayOn a weekend
rarestmost
common
1969, Wednesday: rank #123 of 365, 10,260 births1970, Thursday: rank #97 of 365, 10,828 births1971, Friday: rank #143 of 365, 10,136 births1972, Sunday: rank #332 of 366, 7,806 births1973, Monday: rank #156 of 365, 8,875 births1974, Tuesday: rank #71 of 365, 9,427 births1975, Wednesday: rank #142 of 365, 8,935 births1976, Friday: rank #63 of 366, 9,458 births1977, Saturday: rank #296 of 365, 8,172 births1978, Sunday: rank #335 of 365, 7,877 births1979, Monday: rank #71 of 365, 10,355 births1980, Wednesday: rank #139 of 366, 10,180 births1981, Thursday: rank #157 of 365, 10,224 births1982, Friday: rank #113 of 365, 10,621 births1983, Saturday: rank #308 of 365, 8,681 births1984, Monday: rank #93 of 366, 10,740 births1985, Tuesday: rank #144 of 365, 10,800 births1986, Wednesday: rank #199 of 365, 10,590 births1987, Thursday: rank #196 of 365, 10,828 births1988, Saturday: rank #306 of 366, 8,982 births1989, Sunday: rank #337 of 365, 8,859 births1990, Monday: rank #144 of 365, 12,130 births1991, Tuesday: rank #180 of 365, 11,851 births1992, Thursday: rank #202 of 366, 11,608 births1993, Friday: rank #144 of 365, 11,816 births1994, Saturday: rank #298 of 365, 8,771 births1995, Sunday: rank #353 of 365, 7,772 births1996, Tuesday: rank #75 of 366, 12,001 births1997, Wednesday: rank #161 of 365, 11,529 births1998, Thursday: rank #143 of 365, 11,815 births1999, Friday: rank #99 of 365, 12,128 births2000, Sunday: rank #335 of 366, 7,872 births2001, Monday: rank #91 of 365, 12,487 births2002, Tuesday: rank #96 of 365, 12,462 births2003, Wednesday: rank #117 of 365, 12,658 births2004, Friday: rank #96 of 366, 12,857 births2005, Saturday: rank #291 of 365, 8,362 births2006, Sunday: rank #341 of 365, 7,479 births2007, Monday: rank #76 of 365, 13,726 births2008, Wednesday: rank #208 of 366, 12,675 births2009, Thursday: rank #171 of 365, 12,592 births2010, Friday: rank #124 of 365, 12,455 births2011, Saturday: rank #280 of 365, 7,972 births2012, Monday: rank #49 of 366, 12,789 births2013, Tuesday: rank #102 of 365, 12,289 births2014, Wednesday: rank #150 of 365, 12,078 births2015, Thursday: rank #65 of 365, 12,504 births2016, Saturday: rank #279 of 366, 8,272 births2017, Sunday: rank #334 of 365, 7,188 births2018, Monday: rank #84 of 365, 11,851 births2019, Tuesday: rank #125 of 365, 11,461 births2020, Thursday: rank #102 of 366, 11,159 births2021, Friday: rank #126 of 365, 11,244 births2022, Saturday: rank #271 of 365, 8,206 births2023, Sunday: rank #333 of 365, 6,829 births2024, Tuesday: rank #97 of 366, 11,142 births1970198019902000201020202024

On a weekend it slips to #314, from #123 on a working day

Inductions and planned caesareans are booked on working days, so 29.2% fewer babies arrive and the date falls down the ranking. Each bar is the average rank of the years it landed on that day.

#96
Mon
#111
Tue
#155
Wed
#142
Thu
#114
Fri
#291
Sat
#338
Sun
Most common year
2012#49 of 366Monday · 12,789 births
Rarest year
1995#353 of 365Sunday · 7,772 births
Weekend years
16 of 5629% of the record2023 was the most recent
Around the world

November 19 in other countries

November 19 is the 168th most common birthday in the United States. It is not among the 50 most common in any of the 26 other countries, and ranges from #82 in the Philippines to #356 in Latvia.

  1. Philippines

    #82 of 366

    4,868 births on an average November 19

    PSA, 2006–⁠2024
  2. Malaysia

    #88 of 366

    1,427 births on an average November 19

    DOSM, 2000–⁠2022
  3. France

    #169 of 366

    2,153 births on an average November 19

    INSEE, 1998–⁠2024
  4. Costa Rica

    #170 of 366

    168 births on an average November 19

    INEC Costa Rica, 2014–⁠2024
  5. Chile

    #205 of 366

    687 births on an average November 19

    DEIS, 1990–⁠2017
  6. England & Wales

    #212 of 366

    1,773 births on an average November 19

    ONS, 1995–⁠2025
  7. Japan

    #225 of 366

    2,753 births on an average November 19

    e-Stat, 1996–⁠2025
  8. New Zealand

    #228 of 366

    156 births on an average November 19

    Stats NZ, 1980–⁠2023
  9. Portugal

    #249 of 366

    292 births on an average November 19

    INE Portugal, 1980–⁠2025
  10. Ireland

    #292 of 366

    164 births on an average November 19

    CSO, 1980–⁠2023
  11. Guatemala

    #293 of 366

    914 births on an average November 19

    INE Guatemala, 2018–⁠2024
  12. Denmark

    #298 of 366

    158 births on an average November 19

    Statistics Denmark, 2007–⁠2025
  13. Mexico

    #299 of 366

    4,774 births on an average November 19

    INEGI, 2017–⁠2023
  14. Peru

    #303 of 366

    1,141 births on an average November 19

    INEI, 2019–⁠2025
  15. Netherlands

    #305 of 366

    483 births on an average November 19

    CBS, 1995–⁠2025
  16. Belgium

    #310 of 366

    315 births on an average November 19

    Statbel, 1992–⁠2025
  17. Norway

    #313 of 366

    140 births on an average November 19

    SSB, 2011–⁠2025
  18. Brazil

    #315 of 366

    7,489 births on an average November 19

    DATASUS, 1997–⁠2024
  19. Finland

    #318 of 366

    134 births on an average November 19

    Statistics Finland, 2010–⁠2025
  20. Ecuador

    #345 of 366

    704 births on an average November 19

    INEC, 2013–⁠2023
  21. Switzerland

    #345 of 366

    205 births on an average November 19

    FSO, 1969–⁠2025
  22. Germany

    #346 of 366

    1,879 births on an average November 19

    Destatis, 2014–⁠2025
  23. Hungary

    #346 of 366

    307 births on an average November 19

    KSH, 1970–⁠2020
  24. Argentina

    #347 of 366

    1,286 births on an average November 19

    DEIS, 2018–⁠2023
  25. Slovenia

    #351 of 366

    47 births on an average November 19

    SURS, 2000–⁠2025
  26. Latvia

    #356 of 366

    46 births on an average November 19

    CSB, 1996–⁠2025
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November against the other eleven

November 19 is the 10th 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 19#168 of 36610,858 births a year

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Quick answers

How many babies are born on November 19?

About 10,858 a year in the United States. It was at its most common in 2012, when 12,789 babies were born and it ranked #49 of 366; at its rarest in 1995, with 7,772 births at #353.

Is November 19 a common birthday?

In the United States, November 19 is the 168th most common of 366 dates, with about 10,858 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. 76 other dates are within 1% of November 19's count, spread from #130 to #206, 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 19 rarer in other countries?

In some. It is rarer in 24 of the 26 other countries we hold daily records for. It is at its rarest in Latvia, at #356 of 366, and at its most common in the Philippines, at #82.

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