Is November 29 a rare birthday? Uncommon

Rarer than 84% of all 366 dates.

November 29 #309
Most commonSeptember 9RarestDecember 25
Cartoon birthday scene for November 29: a child behind a cake whose candles spell the date
At a glance

November 29 in numbers

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

Born each year≈ 10,505in the United States — about 902,000 of them are alive today
In a full stadium132 peopleof 50,000 were born on November 29
On the day itselfEvery 8 secondsa baby is born on November 29 somewhere in the United States
Star signSagittariusrarer than 21 of the 30 Sagittarius birthdays
Half-birthdayMay 29six months later, to the day
Conceived aroundMarch 8A spring evening, apparently.
Birth frequency by rank

Where November 29 ranks

From most common birthday to rarest, November 29 ranks in position #309, with 10,505 births a year. 308 other dates are more common. 62 dates are within 1% of its count, anywhere from #271 to #333, so the exact position is a close thing.

56 years of records

November 29 through the years

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

Fell on a weekdayOn a weekend
rarestmost
common
1969, Saturday: rank #274 of 365, 9,332 births1970, Sunday: rank #319 of 365, 9,190 births1971, Monday: rank #216 of 365, 9,748 births1972, Wednesday: rank #162 of 366, 9,178 births1973, Thursday: rank #229 of 365, 8,552 births1974, Friday: rank #254 of 365, 8,424 births1975, Saturday: rank #322 of 365, 7,566 births1976, Monday: rank #94 of 366, 9,263 births1977, Tuesday: rank #106 of 365, 9,619 births1978, Wednesday: rank #133 of 365, 9,452 births1979, Thursday: rank #178 of 365, 9,720 births1980, Saturday: rank #301 of 366, 8,821 births1981, Sunday: rank #328 of 365, 8,528 births1982, Monday: rank #126 of 365, 10,540 births1983, Tuesday: rank #121 of 365, 10,526 births1984, Thursday: rank #143 of 366, 10,387 births1985, Friday: rank #252 of 365, 9,922 births1986, Saturday: rank #341 of 365, 8,362 births1987, Sunday: rank #342 of 365, 8,416 births1988, Tuesday: rank #105 of 366, 11,523 births1989, Wednesday: rank #192 of 365, 11,425 births1990, Thursday: rank #226 of 365, 11,530 births1991, Friday: rank #254 of 365, 10,307 births1992, Sunday: rank #348 of 366, 8,576 births1993, Monday: rank #241 of 365, 11,060 births1994, Tuesday: rank #62 of 365, 12,177 births1995, Wednesday: rank #183 of 365, 11,344 births1996, Friday: rank #260 of 366, 9,302 births1997, Saturday: rank #308 of 365, 8,269 births1998, Sunday: rank #347 of 365, 7,732 births1999, Monday: rank #228 of 365, 11,095 births2000, Wednesday: rank #54 of 366, 12,786 births2001, Thursday: rank #156 of 365, 12,180 births2002, Friday: rank #258 of 365, 9,155 births2003, Saturday: rank #315 of 365, 7,913 births2004, Monday: rank #217 of 366, 12,067 births2005, Tuesday: rank #46 of 365, 13,461 births2006, Wednesday: rank #82 of 365, 13,684 births2007, Thursday: rank #99 of 365, 13,551 births2008, Saturday: rank #325 of 366, 7,733 births2009, Sunday: rank #355 of 365, 7,081 births2010, Monday: rank #152 of 365, 12,303 births2011, Tuesday: rank #38 of 365, 12,978 births2012, Thursday: rank #109 of 366, 12,344 births2013, Friday: rank #256 of 365, 8,986 births2014, Saturday: rank #300 of 365, 8,064 births2015, Sunday: rank #346 of 365, 7,230 births2016, Tuesday: rank #30 of 366, 12,795 births2017, Wednesday: rank #72 of 365, 12,197 births2018, Thursday: rank #65 of 365, 11,937 births2019, Friday: rank #267 of 365, 8,323 births2020, Sunday: rank #356 of 366, 6,361 births2021, Monday: rank #170 of 365, 10,913 births2022, Tuesday: rank #31 of 365, 11,912 births2023, Wednesday: rank #69 of 365, 11,362 births2024, Friday: rank #275 of 366, 8,051 births1970198019902000201020202024

On a weekend it slips to #327, from #155 on a working day

Inductions and planned caesareans are booked on working days, so 25.9% fewer babies arrive and the date falls down the ranking. Each bar is the average rank of the years it landed on that day.

#181
Mon
#67
Tue
#118
Wed
#151
Thu
#260
Fri
#311
Sat
#343
Sun
Most common year
2016#30 of 366Tuesday · 12,795 births
Rarest year
2020#356 of 366Sunday · 6,361 births
Weekend years
16 of 5629% of the record2020 was the most recent
Around the world

November 29 in other countries

November 29 is the 58th rarest birthday in the United States. It is among the 50 rarest in 14 of the 26 other countries, and ranges from #109 in the Philippines to #357 in Germany.

  1. Philippines

    #109 of 366

    4,691 births on an average November 29

    PSA, 2006–⁠2024
  2. Costa Rica

    #158 of 366

    169 births on an average November 29

    INEC Costa Rica, 2014–⁠2024
  3. Malaysia

    #173 of 366

    1,399 births on an average November 29

    DOSM, 2000–⁠2022
  4. Mexico

    #180 of 366

    5,028 births on an average November 29

    INEGI, 2017–⁠2023
  5. Portugal

    #253 of 366

    292 births on an average November 29

    INE Portugal, 1980–⁠2025
  6. Slovenia

    #265 of 366

    51 births on an average November 29

    SURS, 2000–⁠2025
  7. Argentina

    #273 of 366

    1,422 births on an average November 29

    DEIS, 2018–⁠2023
  8. France

    #275 of 366

    2,099 births on an average November 29

    INSEE, 1998–⁠2024
  9. Chile

    #287 of 366

    677 births on an average November 29

    DEIS, 1990–⁠2017
  10. Latvia

    #300 of 366

    50 births on an average November 29

    CSB, 1996–⁠2025
  11. New Zealand

    #305 of 366

    154 births on an average November 29

    Stats NZ, 1980–⁠2023
  12. Guatemala

    #311 of 366

    908 births on an average November 29

    INE Guatemala, 2018–⁠2024
  13. Japan

    #327 of 366

    2,664 births on an average November 29

    e-Stat, 1996–⁠2025
  14. Finland

    #330 of 366

    132 births on an average November 29

    Statistics Finland, 2010–⁠2025
  15. Peru

    #334 of 366

    1,118 births on an average November 29

    INEI, 2019–⁠2025
  16. Netherlands

    #336 of 366

    477 births on an average November 29

    CBS, 1995–⁠2025
  17. England & Wales

    #337 of 366

    1,736 births on an average November 29

    ONS, 1995–⁠2025
  18. Hungary

    #345 of 366

    307 births on an average November 29

    KSH, 1970–⁠2020
  19. Denmark

    #346 of 366

    152 births on an average November 29

    Statistics Denmark, 2007–⁠2025
  20. Norway

    #347 of 366

    129 births on an average November 29

    SSB, 2011–⁠2025
  21. Belgium

    #350 of 366

    301 births on an average November 29

    Statbel, 1992–⁠2025
  22. Switzerland

    #352 of 366

    205 births on an average November 29

    FSO, 1969–⁠2025
  23. Brazil

    #355 of 366

    7,204 births on an average November 29

    DATASUS, 1997–⁠2024
  24. Ecuador

    #355 of 366

    692 births on an average November 29

    INEC, 2013–⁠2023
  25. Ireland

    #355 of 366

    158 births on an average November 29

    CSO, 1980–⁠2023
  26. Germany

    #357 of 366

    1,843 births on an average November 29

    Destatis, 2014–⁠2025
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November against the other eleven

November 29 is the 9th rarest 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 29#309 of 36610,505 births a year

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Questions

Quick answers

How many babies are born on November 29?

About 10,505 a year in the United States. It was at its most common in 2016, when 12,795 babies were born and it ranked #30 of 366; at its rarest in 2020, with 6,361 births at #356.

Is November 29 a common birthday?

In the United States, November 29 is the 58th rarest of 366 dates, with about 10,505 births a year. That puts it on the rarer side of the calendar.

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. 62 other dates are within 1% of November 29's count, spread from #271 to #333, 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 29 rarer in other countries?

In some. It is rarer in 15 of the 26 other countries we hold daily records for. It is at its rarest in Germany, at #357 of 366, and at its most common in the Philippines, at #109.

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