Is November 6 a rare birthday? Ordinary

Rarer than 50% of all 366 dates.

November 6 #182
Most commonSeptember 9RarestDecember 25
Cartoon birthday scene for November 6: a child behind a cake whose candles spell the date
At a glance

November 6 in numbers

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

Born each year≈ 10,805in the United States — about 925,000 of them are alive today
In a full stadium136 peopleof 50,000 were born on November 6
On the day itselfEvery 8 secondsa baby is born on November 6 somewhere in the United States
Star signScorpiorarer than 18 of the 30 Scorpio birthdays
Half-birthdayMay 6six months later, to the day
Conceived aroundFebruary 13Right around Valentine's Day.
Birth frequency by rank

Where November 6 ranks

From most common birthday to rarest, November 6 ranks in position #182, with 10,805 births a year. 184 other dates are rarer. 82 dates are within 1% of its count, anywhere from #146 to #228, so the exact position is a close thing.

56 years of records

November 6 through the years

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

Fell on a weekdayOn a weekend
rarestmost
common
1969, Thursday: rank #127 of 365, 10,240 births1970, Friday: rank #105 of 365, 10,722 births1971, Saturday: rank #318 of 365, 8,700 births1972, Monday: rank #142 of 366, 9,256 births1973, Tuesday: rank #221 of 365, 8,608 births1974, Wednesday: rank #115 of 365, 9,051 births1975, Thursday: rank #183 of 365, 8,813 births1976, Saturday: rank #298 of 366, 7,864 births1977, Sunday: rank #333 of 365, 7,842 births1978, Monday: rank #125 of 365, 9,526 births1979, Tuesday: rank #77 of 365, 10,276 births1980, Thursday: rank #152 of 366, 10,128 births1981, Friday: rank #78 of 365, 10,678 births1982, Saturday: rank #311 of 365, 8,758 births1983, Sunday: rank #357 of 365, 8,218 births1984, Tuesday: rank #125 of 366, 10,506 births1985, Wednesday: rank #166 of 365, 10,695 births1986, Thursday: rank #189 of 365, 10,626 births1987, Friday: rank #138 of 365, 11,099 births1988, Sunday: rank #327 of 366, 8,733 births1989, Monday: rank #191 of 365, 11,427 births1990, Tuesday: rank #143 of 365, 12,131 births1991, Wednesday: rank #173 of 365, 11,875 births1992, Friday: rank #190 of 366, 11,683 births1993, Saturday: rank #287 of 365, 9,094 births1994, Sunday: rank #348 of 365, 8,100 births1995, Monday: rank #229 of 365, 10,809 births1996, Wednesday: rank #139 of 366, 11,575 births1997, Thursday: rank #140 of 365, 11,608 births1998, Friday: rank #153 of 365, 11,773 births1999, Saturday: rank #287 of 365, 8,533 births2000, Monday: rank #222 of 366, 11,520 births2001, Tuesday: rank #114 of 365, 12,345 births2002, Wednesday: rank #122 of 365, 12,349 births2003, Thursday: rank #128 of 365, 12,564 births2004, Saturday: rank #275 of 366, 8,654 births2005, Sunday: rank #329 of 365, 7,470 births2006, Monday: rank #208 of 365, 12,655 births2007, Tuesday: rank #60 of 365, 13,924 births2008, Thursday: rank #179 of 366, 12,921 births2009, Friday: rank #218 of 365, 12,134 births2010, Saturday: rank #279 of 365, 8,040 births2011, Sunday: rank #330 of 365, 7,150 births2012, Tuesday: rank #73 of 366, 12,594 births2013, Wednesday: rank #159 of 365, 11,919 births2014, Thursday: rank #89 of 365, 12,467 births2015, Friday: rank #180 of 365, 11,909 births2016, Sunday: rank #329 of 366, 7,454 births2017, Monday: rank #188 of 365, 11,435 births2018, Tuesday: rank #120 of 365, 11,620 births2019, Wednesday: rank #119 of 365, 11,500 births2020, Friday: rank #204 of 366, 10,656 births2021, Saturday: rank #280 of 365, 7,973 births2022, Sunday: rank #318 of 365, 7,348 births2023, Monday: rank #187 of 365, 10,677 births2024, Wednesday: rank #105 of 366, 11,088 births1970198019902000201020202024

On a weekend it slips to #313, from #149 on a working day

Inductions and planned caesareans are booked on working days, so 27.7% fewer babies arrive and the date falls down the ranking. Each bar is the average rank of the years it landed on that day.

#187
Mon
#117
Tue
#137
Wed
#148
Thu
#158
Fri
#292
Sat
#334
Sun
Most common year
2007#60 of 365Tuesday · 13,924 births
Rarest year
1983#357 of 365Sunday · 8,218 births
Weekend years
16 of 5629% of the record2022 was the most recent
Around the world

November 6 in other countries

November 6 is the 182nd most common birthday in the United States. It is among the 50 most common in 2 of the 26 other countries, and ranges from #24 in the Philippines to #355 in Latvia.

  1. Philippines

    #24 of 366

    5,139 births on an average November 6

    PSA, 2006–⁠2024
  2. Guatemala

    #45 of 366

    1,000 births on an average November 6

    INE Guatemala, 2018–⁠2024
  3. Ecuador

    #52 of 366

    796 births on an average November 6

    INEC, 2013–⁠2023
  4. New Zealand

    #52 of 366

    162 births on an average November 6

    Stats NZ, 1980–⁠2023
  5. Costa Rica

    #59 of 366

    177 births on an average November 6

    INEC Costa Rica, 2014–⁠2024
  6. Chile

    #63 of 366

    712 births on an average November 6

    DEIS, 1990–⁠2017
  7. Malaysia

    #70 of 366

    1,441 births on an average November 6

    DOSM, 2000–⁠2022
  8. Japan

    #78 of 366

    2,875 births on an average November 6

    e-Stat, 1996–⁠2025
  9. Mexico

    #78 of 366

    5,335 births on an average November 6

    INEGI, 2017–⁠2023
  10. Portugal

    #92 of 366

    303 births on an average November 6

    INE Portugal, 1980–⁠2025
  11. France

    #94 of 366

    2,199 births on an average November 6

    INSEE, 1998–⁠2024
  12. England & Wales

    #105 of 366

    1,813 births on an average November 6

    ONS, 1995–⁠2025
  13. Slovenia

    #177 of 366

    53 births on an average November 6

    SURS, 2000–⁠2025
  14. Netherlands

    #194 of 366

    495 births on an average November 6

    CBS, 1995–⁠2025
  15. Denmark

    #195 of 366

    164 births on an average November 6

    Statistics Denmark, 2007–⁠2025
  16. Germany

    #203 of 366

    1,996 births on an average November 6

    Destatis, 2014–⁠2025
  17. Finland

    #219 of 366

    139 births on an average November 6

    Statistics Finland, 2010–⁠2025
  18. Peru

    #223 of 366

    1,185 births on an average November 6

    INEI, 2019–⁠2025
  19. Belgium

    #229 of 366

    323 births on an average November 6

    Statbel, 1992–⁠2025
  20. Ireland

    #244 of 366

    165 births on an average November 6

    CSO, 1980–⁠2023
  21. Argentina

    #293 of 366

    1,402 births on an average November 6

    DEIS, 2018–⁠2023
  22. Brazil

    #294 of 366

    7,584 births on an average November 6

    DATASUS, 1997–⁠2024
  23. Switzerland

    #299 of 366

    212 births on an average November 6

    FSO, 1969–⁠2025
  24. Norway

    #317 of 366

    138 births on an average November 6

    SSB, 2011–⁠2025
  25. Hungary

    #341 of 366

    308 births on an average November 6

    KSH, 1970–⁠2020
  26. Latvia

    #355 of 366

    47 births on an average November 6

    CSB, 1996–⁠2025
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November against the other eleven

November 6 is the 15th 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 6#182 of 36610,805 births a year

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Quick answers

How many babies are born on November 6?

About 10,805 a year in the United States. It was at its most common in 2007, when 13,924 babies were born and it ranked #60 of 365; at its rarest in 1983, with 8,218 births at #357.

Is November 6 a common birthday?

In the United States, November 6 is the 182nd most common of 366 dates, with about 10,805 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. 82 other dates are within 1% of November 6's count, spread from #146 to #228, 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 6 rarer in other countries?

In some. It is rarer in 13 of the 26 other countries we hold daily records for. It is at its rarest in Latvia, at #355 of 366, and at its most common in the Philippines, at #24.

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