Is September 10 a rare birthday? Very common

More common than 98% of all 366 dates.

September 10 #8
Most commonSeptember 9RarestDecember 25
Cartoon birthday scene for September 10: a child behind a cake whose candles spell the date
At a glance

September 10 in numbers

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

Born each year≈ 11,740in the United States — about 1,007,000 of them are alive today
In a full stadium148 peopleof 50,000 were born on September 10
On the day itselfEvery 7 secondsa baby is born on September 10 somewhere in the United States
Star signVirgomore common than 25 of the 31 Virgo birthdays
Half-birthdayMarch 10six months later, to the day
Conceived aroundDecember 18Right around Christmas Eve.
Birth frequency by rank

Where September 10 ranks

From most common birthday to rarest, September 10 ranks in position #8, with 11,740 births a year. 358 other dates are rarer. 12 dates are within 1% of its count, anywhere from #2 to #14, so the exact position is a close thing.

56 years of records

September 10 through the years

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

Fell on a weekdayOn a weekend
rarestmost
common
1969, Wednesday: rank #91 of 365, 10,450 births1970, Thursday: rank #13 of 365, 11,654 births1971, Friday: rank #15 of 365, 10,910 births1972, Sunday: rank #287 of 366, 8,233 births1973, Monday: rank #81 of 365, 9,165 births1974, Tuesday: rank #12 of 365, 10,074 births1975, Wednesday: rank #73 of 365, 9,265 births1976, Friday: rank #10 of 366, 9,998 births1977, Saturday: rank #260 of 365, 8,771 births1978, Sunday: rank #268 of 365, 8,650 births1979, Monday: rank #49 of 365, 10,577 births1980, Wednesday: rank #39 of 366, 11,003 births1981, Thursday: rank #25 of 365, 11,245 births1982, Friday: rank #1 of 365, 11,917 births1983, Saturday: rank #252 of 365, 9,536 births1984, Monday: rank #17 of 366, 11,641 births1985, Tuesday: rank #17 of 365, 11,828 births1986, Wednesday: rank #51 of 365, 11,443 births1987, Thursday: rank #3 of 365, 12,252 births1988, Saturday: rank #258 of 366, 9,968 births1989, Sunday: rank #276 of 365, 9,731 births1990, Monday: rank #113 of 365, 12,280 births1991, Tuesday: rank #12 of 365, 13,064 births1992, Thursday: rank #2 of 366, 13,011 births1993, Friday: rank #3 of 365, 13,045 births1994, Saturday: rank #261 of 365, 9,424 births1995, Sunday: rank #296 of 365, 8,568 births1996, Tuesday: rank #11 of 366, 12,662 births1997, Wednesday: rank #59 of 365, 12,182 births1998, Thursday: rank #3 of 365, 13,306 births1999, Friday: rank #9 of 365, 13,181 births2000, Sunday: rank #310 of 366, 8,354 births2001, Monday: rank #142 of 365, 12,227 births2002, Tuesday: rank #9 of 365, 13,644 births2003, Wednesday: rank #5 of 365, 13,908 births2004, Friday: rank #7 of 366, 13,814 births2005, Saturday: rank #255 of 365, 9,389 births2006, Sunday: rank #299 of 365, 8,306 births2007, Monday: rank #93 of 365, 13,620 births2008, Wednesday: rank #10 of 366, 14,249 births2009, Thursday: rank #2 of 365, 14,690 births2010, Friday: rank #13 of 365, 13,395 births2011, Saturday: rank #255 of 365, 9,039 births2012, Monday: rank #62 of 366, 12,684 births2013, Tuesday: rank #6 of 365, 13,305 births2014, Wednesday: rank #20 of 365, 13,129 births2015, Thursday: rank #2 of 365, 13,925 births2016, Saturday: rank #255 of 366, 9,166 births2017, Sunday: rank #305 of 365, 7,788 births2018, Monday: rank #66 of 365, 11,933 births2019, Tuesday: rank #4 of 365, 12,709 births2020, Thursday: rank #2 of 366, 12,446 births2021, Friday: rank #2 of 365, 12,610 births2022, Saturday: rank #255 of 365, 8,814 births2023, Sunday: rank #311 of 365, 7,207 births2024, Tuesday: rank #13 of 366, 11,846 births1970198019902000201020202024

On a weekend it slips to #275, from #29 on a working day

Inductions and planned caesareans are booked on working days, so 28.1% fewer babies arrive and the date falls down the ranking. Each bar is the average rank of the years it landed on that day.

#78
Mon
#11
Tue
#44
Wed
#7
Thu
#8
Fri
#256
Sat
#294
Sun
Most common year
1982#1 of 365Friday · 11,917 births
Rarest year
2023#311 of 365Sunday · 7,207 births
Weekend years
16 of 5629% of the record2023 was the most recent
Around the world

September 10 in other countries

September 10 is the 8th most common birthday in the United States. It is among the 50 most common in 15 of the 26 other countries, and ranges from #5 in Guatemala to #185 in Latvia.

  1. Guatemala

    #5 of 366

    1,084 births on an average September 10

    INE Guatemala, 2018–⁠2024
  2. Costa Rica

    #8 of 366

    187 births on an average September 10

    INEC Costa Rica, 2014–⁠2024
  3. Ecuador

    #12 of 366

    812 births on an average September 10

    INEC, 2013–⁠2023
  4. Philippines

    #12 of 366

    5,225 births on an average September 10

    PSA, 2006–⁠2024
  5. Portugal

    #12 of 366

    322 births on an average September 10

    INE Portugal, 1980–⁠2025
  6. Mexico

    #13 of 366

    5,758 births on an average September 10

    INEGI, 2017–⁠2023
  7. Chile

    #14 of 366

    767 births on an average September 10

    DEIS, 1990–⁠2017
  8. Netherlands

    #16 of 366

    533 births on an average September 10

    CBS, 1995–⁠2025
  9. Finland

    #25 of 366

    150 births on an average September 10

    Statistics Finland, 2010–⁠2025
  10. Japan

    #33 of 366

    2,949 births on an average September 10

    e-Stat, 1996–⁠2025
  11. Malaysia

    #33 of 366

    1,477 births on an average September 10

    DOSM, 2000–⁠2022
  12. Peru

    #37 of 366

    1,269 births on an average September 10

    INEI, 2019–⁠2025
  13. England & Wales

    #40 of 366

    1,842 births on an average September 10

    ONS, 1995–⁠2025
  14. New Zealand

    #41 of 366

    163 births on an average September 10

    Stats NZ, 1980–⁠2023
  15. Denmark

    #50 of 366

    176 births on an average September 10

    Statistics Denmark, 2007–⁠2025
  16. Germany

    #53 of 366

    2,196 births on an average September 10

    Destatis, 2014–⁠2025
  17. Hungary

    #59 of 366

    341 births on an average September 10

    KSH, 1970–⁠2020
  18. Slovenia

    #63 of 366

    56 births on an average September 10

    SURS, 2000–⁠2025
  19. Belgium

    #77 of 366

    336 births on an average September 10

    Statbel, 1992–⁠2025
  20. France

    #79 of 366

    2,207 births on an average September 10

    INSEE, 1998–⁠2024
  21. Brazil

    #107 of 366

    8,265 births on an average September 10

    DATASUS, 1997–⁠2024
  22. Switzerland

    #145 of 366

    225 births on an average September 10

    FSO, 1969–⁠2025
  23. Norway

    #153 of 366

    159 births on an average September 10

    SSB, 2011–⁠2025
  24. Ireland

    #159 of 366

    168 births on an average September 10

    CSO, 1980–⁠2023
  25. Argentina

    #178 of 366

    1,517 births on an average September 10

    DEIS, 2018–⁠2023
  26. Latvia

    #185 of 366

    54 births on an average September 10

    CSB, 1996–⁠2025
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September against the other eleven

September 10 is the 6th most common of the 30 days in September. All September birthdays.

September is the most common month of the year

An average September day sees 11,448 births in the United States. September is the busiest month, January the quietest.

September 10 is the 4th 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

September 10#8 of 36611,740 births a year

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Questions

Quick answers

How many babies are born on September 10?

About 11,740 a year in the United States. It was at its most common in 1982, when 11,917 babies were born and it ranked #1 of 365; at its rarest in 2023, with 7,207 births at #311.

Is September 10 a common birthday?

In the United States, September 10 is the 8th most common of 366 dates, with about 11,740 births a year. That puts it among the more common birthdays.

What is the rarest September birthday?

In the United States, September 2: the 118th rarest of all 366 dates, with about 10,653 births a year. The most common September birthday is September 9, the most common of the year.

How precise is the ranking?

In the middle of the calendar it is not exact. 12 other dates are within 1% of September 10's count, spread from #2 to #14, 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 September 10 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 #185 of 366, and at its most common in Guatemala, at #5.

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