Is September 26 a rare birthday? Popular

More common than 93% of all 366 dates.

September 26 #25
Most commonSeptember 9RarestDecember 25
Cartoon birthday scene for September 26: a child behind a cake whose candles spell the date
At a glance

September 26 in numbers

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

Born each year≈ 11,534in the United States — about 996,000 of them are alive today
In a full stadium145 peopleof 50,000 were born on September 26
On the day itselfEvery 7 secondsa baby is born on September 26 somewhere in the United States
Star signLibramore common than 26 of the 30 Libra birthdays
Half-birthdayMarch 26six months later, to the day
Conceived aroundJanuary 3Right around New Year's Eve.
Birth frequency by rank

Where September 26 ranks

From most common birthday to rarest, September 26 ranks in position #25, with 11,534 births a year. 341 other dates are rarer. 32 dates are within 1% of its count, anywhere from #14 to #46, so the exact position is a close thing.

September 26#25 · 11,534 a year11,9006,546#1#366
56 years of records

September 26 through the years

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

Fell on a weekdayOn a weekend
rarestmost
common
1969, Friday: rank #6 of 365, 11,154 births1970, Saturday: rank #164 of 365, 10,404 births1971, Sunday: rank #266 of 365, 9,380 births1972, Tuesday: rank #4 of 366, 10,153 births1973, Wednesday: rank #7 of 365, 9,795 births1974, Thursday: rank #9 of 365, 10,129 births1975, Friday: rank #24 of 365, 9,579 births1976, Sunday: rank #231 of 366, 8,510 births1977, Monday: rank #9 of 365, 10,379 births1978, Tuesday: rank #5 of 365, 10,518 births1979, Wednesday: rank #24 of 365, 10,807 births1980, Friday: rank #19 of 366, 11,163 births1981, Saturday: rank #248 of 365, 9,703 births1982, Sunday: rank #267 of 365, 9,425 births1983, Monday: rank #45 of 365, 10,958 births1984, Wednesday: rank #15 of 366, 11,691 births1985, Thursday: rank #5 of 365, 12,038 births1986, Friday: rank #1 of 365, 12,412 births1987, Saturday: rank #256 of 365, 9,791 births1988, Monday: rank #49 of 366, 12,037 births1989, Tuesday: rank #4 of 365, 13,175 births1990, Wednesday: rank #11 of 365, 13,203 births1991, Thursday: rank #38 of 365, 12,762 births1992, Saturday: rank #258 of 366, 9,971 births1993, Sunday: rank #289 of 365, 9,079 births1994, Monday: rank #168 of 365, 11,597 births1995, Tuesday: rank #8 of 365, 12,814 births1996, Thursday: rank #10 of 366, 12,684 births1997, Friday: rank #75 of 365, 12,057 births1998, Saturday: rank #259 of 365, 9,230 births1999, Sunday: rank #307 of 365, 8,290 births2000, Tuesday: rank #18 of 366, 13,210 births2001, Wednesday: rank #25 of 365, 13,131 births2002, Thursday: rank #28 of 365, 13,211 births2003, Friday: rank #19 of 365, 13,600 births2004, Sunday: rank #311 of 366, 8,044 births2005, Monday: rank #153 of 365, 12,646 births2006, Tuesday: rank #10 of 365, 14,650 births2007, Wednesday: rank #38 of 365, 14,201 births2008, Friday: rank #77 of 366, 13,474 births2009, Saturday: rank #257 of 365, 8,877 births2010, Sunday: rank #312 of 365, 7,479 births2011, Monday: rank #83 of 365, 12,545 births2012, Wednesday: rank #42 of 366, 12,883 births2013, Thursday: rank #31 of 365, 12,896 births2014, Friday: rank #94 of 365, 12,424 births2015, Saturday: rank #262 of 365, 8,927 births2016, Monday: rank #93 of 366, 12,236 births2017, Tuesday: rank #22 of 365, 12,705 births2018, Wednesday: rank #43 of 365, 12,172 births2019, Thursday: rank #40 of 365, 12,152 births2020, Saturday: rank #269 of 366, 7,958 births2021, Sunday: rank #309 of 365, 7,322 births2022, Monday: rank #208 of 365, 10,698 births2023, Tuesday: rank #28 of 365, 11,603 births2024, Thursday: rank #72 of 366, 11,300 births1970198019902000201020202024

On a weekend it slips to #267, from #42 on a working day

Inductions and planned caesareans are booked on working days, so 26.3% fewer babies arrive and the date falls down the ranking. Each bar is the average rank of the years it landed on that day.

#101
Mon
#12
Tue
#26
Wed
#29
Thu
#39
Fri
#247
Sat
#287
Sun
Most common year
1986#1 of 365Friday · 12,412 births
Rarest year
2010#312 of 365Sunday · 7,479 births
Weekend years
16 of 5629% of the record2021 was the most recent
Around the world

September 26 in other countries

September 26 is the 25th most common birthday in the United States. It is among the 50 most common in 18 of the 26 other countries, and ranges from #1 in England & Wales to #268 in Argentina.

  1. England & Wales

    #1 of 366

    1,927 births on an average September 26

    ONS, 1995–⁠2025

  2. Switzerland

    #2 of 366

    239 births on an average September 26

    FSO, 1969–⁠2025

  3. Japan

    #3 of 366

    3,134 births on an average September 26

    e-Stat, 1996–⁠2025

  4. Ireland

    #4 of 366

    185 births on an average September 26

    CSO, 1980–⁠2023

  5. New Zealand

    #6 of 366

    170 births on an average September 26

    Stats NZ, 1980–⁠2023

  6. Netherlands

    #7 of 366

    540 births on an average September 26

    CBS, 1995–⁠2025

  7. Germany

    #10 of 366

    2,274 births on an average September 26

    Destatis, 2014–⁠2025

  8. Malaysia

    #10 of 366

    1,512 births on an average September 26

    DOSM, 2000–⁠2022

  9. France

    #13 of 366

    2,267 births on an average September 26

    INSEE, 1998–⁠2024

  10. Portugal

    #17 of 366

    319 births on an average September 26

    INE Portugal, 1980–⁠2025

  11. Finland

    #23 of 366

    150 births on an average September 26

    Statistics Finland, 2010–⁠2025

  12. Slovenia

    #23 of 366

    58 births on an average September 26

    SURS, 2000–⁠2025

  13. Chile

    #26 of 366

    728 births on an average September 26

    DEIS, 1990–⁠2017

  14. Guatemala

    #26 of 366

    1,024 births on an average September 26

    INE Guatemala, 2018–⁠2024

  15. Mexico

    #28 of 366

    5,610 births on an average September 26

    INEGI, 2017–⁠2023

  16. Philippines

    #28 of 366

    5,123 births on an average September 26

    PSA, 2006–⁠2024

  17. Hungary

    #34 of 366

    346 births on an average September 26

    KSH, 1970–⁠2020

  18. Belgium

    #50 of 366

    339 births on an average September 26

    Statbel, 1992–⁠2025

  19. Denmark

    #51 of 366

    176 births on an average September 26

    Statistics Denmark, 2007–⁠2025

  20. Costa Rica

    #73 of 366

    176 births on an average September 26

    INEC Costa Rica, 2014–⁠2024

  21. Norway

    #77 of 366

    165 births on an average September 26

    SSB, 2011–⁠2025

  22. Latvia

    #150 of 366

    55 births on an average September 26

    CSB, 1996–⁠2025

  23. Peru

    #169 of 366

    1,206 births on an average September 26

    INEI, 2019–⁠2025

  24. Ecuador

    #208 of 366

    759 births on an average September 26

    INEC, 2013–⁠2023

  25. Brazil

    #225 of 366

    7,853 births on an average September 26

    DATASUS, 1997–⁠2024

  26. Argentina

    #268 of 366

    1,425 births on an average September 26

    DEIS, 2018–⁠2023
Birthday twins

Famous people born on September 26

Ranked by how often people looked them up on Wikipedia last year.

Serena WilliamsSerena WilliamsAmerican tennis player · born 1981Talulah RileyTalulah RileyEnglish actress · born 1985Linda HamiltonLinda HamiltonAmerican actress · born 1956Olivia Newton-JohnOlivia Newton-JohnBritish–Australian singer · born 1948Jim CaviezelJim CaviezelAmerican actor · born 1968Manmohan SinghManmohan SinghPrime Minister of India from 2004 to 2014 · born 1932Jeanie BussJeanie BussAmerican sports executive · born 1961Pope Paul VIPope Paul VIHead of the Catholic Church from 1963 to 1978 · born 1897
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September against the other eleven

September 26 is the 13th rarest 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.

10,394
Jan
10,637
Feb
10,658
Mar
10,557
Apr
10,702
May
10,990
Jun
11,238
Jul
11,405
Aug
11,448
Sep
10,872
Oct
10,616
Nov
10,633
Dec
September 25
Births a year11,546
Rank#22
September 26
Births a year11,534
Rank#25
September 27
Births a year11,579
Rank#19

September 26 is the 8th rarest of the 15 days around it

#3
19
#2
20
#10
21
#17
22
#21
23
#28
24
#22
25
#25
26
#19
27
#45
28
#95
29
#110
30
#71
1
#79
2
#82
3
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 26#25 of 36611,534 births a year

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Quick answers

How many babies are born on September 26?

About 11,534 a year in the United States. It was at its most common in 1986, when 12,412 babies were born and it ranked #1 of 365; at its rarest in 2010, with 7,479 births at #312.

Is September 26 a common birthday?

In the United States, September 26 is the 25th most common of 366 dates, with about 11,534 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. 32 other dates are within 1% of September 26's count, spread from #14 to #46, 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 26 rarer in other countries?

In some. It is rarer in 14 of the 26 other countries we hold daily records for. It is at its rarest in Argentina, at #268 of 366, and at its most common in England & Wales, at #1.

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