Is October 11 a rare birthday? Ordinary

More common than 67% of all 366 dates.

October 11 #121
Most commonSeptember 9RarestDecember 25
Cartoon birthday scene for October 11: a child behind a cake whose candles spell the date
At a glance

October 11 in numbers

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

Born each year≈ 11,000in the United States — about 942,000 of them are alive today
In a full stadium139 peopleof 50,000 were born on October 11
On the day itselfEvery 8 secondsa baby is born on October 11 somewhere in the United States
Star signLibrararer than 15 of the 30 Libra birthdays
Half-birthdayApril 11six months later, to the day
Conceived aroundJanuary 18A long winter night, then.
Birth frequency by rank

Where October 11 ranks

From most common birthday to rarest, October 11 ranks in position #121, with 11,000 births a year. 245 other dates are rarer. 46 dates are within 1% of its count, anywhere from #105 to #151, so the exact position is a close thing.

56 years of records

October 11 through the years

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

Fell on a weekdayOn a weekend
rarestmost
common
1969, Saturday: rank #249 of 365, 9,566 births1970, Sunday: rank #316 of 365, 9,214 births1971, Monday: rank #115 of 365, 10,266 births1972, Wednesday: rank #166 of 366, 9,160 births1973, Thursday: rank #168 of 365, 8,822 births1974, Friday: rank #37 of 365, 9,717 births1975, Saturday: rank #276 of 365, 7,985 births1976, Monday: rank #75 of 366, 9,396 births1977, Tuesday: rank #52 of 365, 9,929 births1978, Wednesday: rank #76 of 365, 9,893 births1979, Thursday: rank #95 of 365, 10,106 births1980, Saturday: rank #286 of 366, 8,984 births1981, Sunday: rank #302 of 365, 8,756 births1982, Monday: rank #189 of 365, 10,327 births1983, Tuesday: rank #94 of 365, 10,656 births1984, Thursday: rank #67 of 366, 11,060 births1985, Friday: rank #84 of 365, 11,184 births1986, Saturday: rank #304 of 365, 8,775 births1987, Sunday: rank #332 of 365, 8,543 births1988, Tuesday: rank #70 of 366, 11,836 births1989, Wednesday: rank #111 of 365, 11,935 births1990, Thursday: rank #171 of 365, 12,020 births1991, Friday: rank #159 of 365, 11,930 births1992, Sunday: rank #340 of 366, 8,722 births1993, Monday: rank #248 of 365, 10,819 births1994, Tuesday: rank #53 of 365, 12,236 births1995, Wednesday: rank #95 of 365, 11,843 births1996, Friday: rank #135 of 366, 11,582 births1997, Saturday: rank #294 of 365, 8,489 births1998, Sunday: rank #340 of 365, 7,785 births1999, Monday: rank #223 of 365, 11,203 births2000, Wednesday: rank #89 of 366, 12,564 births2001, Thursday: rank #122 of 365, 12,304 births2002, Friday: rank #133 of 365, 12,271 births2003, Saturday: rank #278 of 365, 8,620 births2004, Monday: rank #245 of 366, 11,530 births2005, Tuesday: rank #114 of 365, 12,950 births2006, Wednesday: rank #73 of 365, 13,752 births2007, Thursday: rank #130 of 365, 13,348 births2008, Saturday: rank #290 of 366, 8,500 births2009, Sunday: rank #342 of 365, 7,191 births2010, Monday: rank #208 of 365, 11,946 births2011, Tuesday: rank #70 of 365, 12,658 births2012, Thursday: rank #7 of 366, 13,559 births2013, Friday: rank #121 of 365, 12,099 births2014, Saturday: rank #282 of 365, 8,282 births2015, Sunday: rank #325 of 365, 7,571 births2016, Tuesday: rank #109 of 366, 12,169 births2017, Wednesday: rank #89 of 365, 12,061 births2018, Thursday: rank #85 of 365, 11,834 births2019, Friday: rank #144 of 365, 11,369 births2020, Sunday: rank #342 of 366, 6,504 births2021, Monday: rank #198 of 365, 10,720 births2022, Tuesday: rank #117 of 365, 11,219 births2023, Wednesday: rank #70 of 365, 11,350 births2024, Friday: rank #115 of 366, 11,055 births1970198019902000201020202024

On a weekend it slips to #306, from #118 on a working day

Inductions and planned caesareans are booked on working days, so 26.9% fewer babies arrive and the date falls down the ranking. Each bar is the average rank of the years it landed on that day.

#188
Mon
#85
Tue
#96
Wed
#106
Thu
#116
Fri
#282
Sat
#330
Sun
Most common year
2012#7 of 366Thursday · 13,559 births
Rarest year
2009#342 of 365Sunday · 7,191 births
Weekend years
16 of 5629% of the record2020 was the most recent
Around the world

October 11 in other countries

October 11 is the 121st most common birthday in the United States. It is among the 50 most common in 4 of the 26 other countries, and ranges from #28 in Guatemala to #337 in Ecuador.

  1. Guatemala

    #28 of 366

    1,017 births on an average October 11

    INE Guatemala, 2018–⁠2024
  2. Malaysia

    #30 of 366

    1,481 births on an average October 11

    DOSM, 2000–⁠2022
  3. New Zealand

    #30 of 366

    164 births on an average October 11

    Stats NZ, 1980–⁠2023
  4. Mexico

    #48 of 366

    5,477 births on an average October 11

    INEGI, 2017–⁠2023
  5. Philippines

    #62 of 366

    4,945 births on an average October 11

    PSA, 2006–⁠2024
  6. England & Wales

    #79 of 366

    1,824 births on an average October 11

    ONS, 1995–⁠2025
  7. Finland

    #96 of 366

    146 births on an average October 11

    Statistics Finland, 2010–⁠2025
  8. France

    #97 of 366

    2,199 births on an average October 11

    INSEE, 1998–⁠2024
  9. Netherlands

    #114 of 366

    511 births on an average October 11

    CBS, 1995–⁠2025
  10. Costa Rica

    #127 of 366

    172 births on an average October 11

    INEC Costa Rica, 2014–⁠2024
  11. Ireland

    #130 of 366

    170 births on an average October 11

    CSO, 1980–⁠2023
  12. Portugal

    #130 of 366

    301 births on an average October 11

    INE Portugal, 1980–⁠2025
  13. Germany

    #140 of 366

    2,054 births on an average October 11

    Destatis, 2014–⁠2025
  14. Denmark

    #153 of 366

    167 births on an average October 11

    Statistics Denmark, 2007–⁠2025
  15. Japan

    #159 of 366

    2,795 births on an average October 11

    e-Stat, 1996–⁠2025
  16. Belgium

    #181 of 366

    327 births on an average October 11

    Statbel, 1992–⁠2025
  17. Slovenia

    #218 of 366

    52 births on an average October 11

    SURS, 2000–⁠2025
  18. Argentina

    #219 of 366

    1,478 births on an average October 11

    DEIS, 2018–⁠2023
  19. Norway

    #221 of 366

    153 births on an average October 11

    SSB, 2011–⁠2025
  20. Chile

    #237 of 366

    683 births on an average October 11

    DEIS, 1990–⁠2017
  21. Peru

    #277 of 366

    1,154 births on an average October 11

    INEI, 2019–⁠2025
  22. Hungary

    #281 of 366

    318 births on an average October 11

    KSH, 1970–⁠2020
  23. Switzerland

    #293 of 366

    213 births on an average October 11

    FSO, 1969–⁠2025
  24. Latvia

    #325 of 366

    49 births on an average October 11

    CSB, 1996–⁠2025
  25. Brazil

    #331 of 366

    7,412 births on an average October 11

    DATASUS, 1997–⁠2024
  26. Ecuador

    #337 of 366

    710 births on an average October 11

    INEC, 2013–⁠2023
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October against the other eleven

October 11 is the 8th most common of the 31 days in October. All October birthdays.

October is the 5th most common month of the year

An average October day sees 10,872 births in the United States. September is the busiest month, January the quietest.

October 11 is the 5th most common of the 15 days around it

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

October 11#121 of 36611,000 births a year

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Questions

Quick answers

How many babies are born on October 11?

About 11,000 a year in the United States. It was at its most common in 2012, when 13,559 babies were born and it ranked #7 of 366; at its rarest in 2009, with 7,191 births at #342.

Is October 11 a common birthday?

In the United States, October 11 is the 121st most common of 366 dates, with about 11,000 births a year. That makes it an ordinary birthday: neither rare nor especially common.

What is the rarest October birthday?

In the United States, October 31: the 11th rarest of all 366 dates, with about 9,798 births a year. The most common October birthday is October 1, the 71st most common of the year.

How precise is the ranking?

In the middle of the calendar it is not exact. 46 other dates are within 1% of October 11's count, spread from #105 to #151, 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 October 11 rarer in other countries?

In some. It is rarer in 17 of the 26 other countries we hold daily records for. It is at its rarest in Ecuador, at #337 of 366, and at its most common in Guatemala, at #28.

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