Is September 30 a rare birthday? Ordinary

More common than 70% of all 366 dates.

September 30 #110
Most commonSeptember 9RarestDecember 25
Cartoon birthday scene for September 30: a child behind a cake whose candles spell the date
At a glance

September 30 in numbers

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

Born each year≈ 11,093in the United States — about 967,000 of them are alive today
In a full stadium140 peopleof 50,000 were born on September 30
On the day itselfEvery 8 secondsa baby is born on September 30 somewhere in the United States
Star signLibramore common than 16 of the 30 Libra birthdays
Half-birthdayMarch 30six months later, to the day
Conceived aroundJanuary 7Right around New Year's Eve.
Birth frequency by rank

Where September 30 ranks

From most common birthday to rarest, September 30 ranks in position #110, with 11,093 births a year. 256 other dates are rarer. 28 dates are within 1% of its count, anywhere from #96 to #124, so the exact position is a close thing.

56 years of records

September 30 through the years

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

Fell on a weekdayOn a weekend
rarestmost
common
1969, Tuesday: rank #9 of 365, 11,138 births1970, Wednesday: rank #43 of 365, 11,244 births1971, Thursday: rank #16 of 365, 10,908 births1972, Saturday: rank #229 of 366, 8,851 births1973, Sunday: rank #283 of 365, 8,014 births1974, Monday: rank #18 of 365, 9,975 births1975, Tuesday: rank #15 of 365, 9,665 births1976, Thursday: rank #29 of 366, 9,718 births1977, Friday: rank #11 of 365, 10,346 births1978, Saturday: rank #266 of 365, 8,663 births1979, Sunday: rank #269 of 365, 9,112 births1980, Tuesday: rank #12 of 366, 11,301 births1981, Wednesday: rank #59 of 365, 10,992 births1982, Thursday: rank #34 of 365, 11,269 births1983, Friday: rank #49 of 365, 10,914 births1984, Sunday: rank #264 of 366, 9,462 births1985, Monday: rank #33 of 365, 11,560 births1986, Tuesday: rank #16 of 365, 11,859 births1987, Wednesday: rank #32 of 365, 11,737 births1988, Friday: rank #26 of 366, 12,263 births1989, Saturday: rank #257 of 365, 10,309 births1990, Sunday: rank #280 of 365, 9,846 births1991, Monday: rank #119 of 365, 12,132 births1992, Wednesday: rank #104 of 366, 12,100 births1993, Thursday: rank #46 of 365, 12,417 births1994, Friday: rank #79 of 365, 12,090 births1995, Saturday: rank #273 of 365, 8,988 births1996, Monday: rank #158 of 366, 11,491 births1997, Tuesday: rank #17 of 365, 12,550 births1998, Wednesday: rank #88 of 365, 12,196 births1999, Thursday: rank #66 of 365, 12,523 births2000, Saturday: rank #268 of 366, 9,135 births2001, Sunday: rank #320 of 365, 7,869 births2002, Monday: rank #189 of 365, 11,998 births2003, Tuesday: rank #62 of 365, 13,122 births2004, Thursday: rank #44 of 366, 13,173 births2005, Friday: rank #75 of 365, 13,176 births2006, Saturday: rank #269 of 365, 9,034 births2007, Sunday: rank #320 of 365, 7,885 births2008, Tuesday: rank #66 of 366, 13,529 births2009, Wednesday: rank #65 of 365, 13,238 births2010, Thursday: rank #54 of 365, 12,823 births2011, Friday: rank #128 of 365, 12,225 births2012, Sunday: rank #316 of 366, 7,544 births2013, Monday: rank #142 of 365, 11,996 births2014, Tuesday: rank #42 of 365, 12,857 births2015, Wednesday: rank #113 of 365, 12,284 births2016, Friday: rank #85 of 366, 12,273 births2017, Saturday: rank #270 of 365, 8,531 births2018, Sunday: rank #321 of 365, 7,309 births2019, Monday: rank #165 of 365, 11,243 births2020, Wednesday: rank #99 of 366, 11,173 births2021, Thursday: rank #73 of 365, 11,599 births2022, Friday: rank #218 of 365, 10,649 births2023, Saturday: rank #282 of 365, 7,824 births2024, Monday: rank #238 of 366, 10,232 births1970198019902000201020202024

On a weekend it slips to #280, from #73 on a working day

Inductions and planned caesareans are booked on working days, so 26.4% fewer babies arrive and the date falls down the ranking. Each bar is the average rank of the years it landed on that day.

#133
Mon
#30
Tue
#75
Wed
#45
Thu
#84
Fri
#264
Sat
#297
Sun
Most common year
1969#9 of 365Tuesday · 11,138 births
Rarest year
2018#321 of 365Sunday · 7,309 births
Weekend years
16 of 5629% of the record2023 was the most recent
Around the world

September 30 in other countries

September 30 is the 110th most common birthday in the United States. It is among the 50 most common in 12 of the 26 other countries, and ranges from #2 in New Zealand to #329 in Argentina.

  1. New Zealand

    #2 of 366

    171 births on an average September 30

    Stats NZ, 1980–⁠2023
  2. England & Wales

    #5 of 366

    1,917 births on an average September 30

    ONS, 1995–⁠2025
  3. Netherlands

    #5 of 366

    541 births on an average September 30

    CBS, 1995–⁠2025
  4. Ireland

    #12 of 366

    182 births on an average September 30

    CSO, 1980–⁠2023
  5. Portugal

    #15 of 366

    320 births on an average September 30

    INE Portugal, 1980–⁠2025
  6. Switzerland

    #17 of 366

    233 births on an average September 30

    FSO, 1969–⁠2025
  7. France

    #29 of 366

    2,252 births on an average September 30

    INSEE, 1998–⁠2024
  8. Germany

    #29 of 366

    2,235 births on an average September 30

    Destatis, 2014–⁠2025
  9. Costa Rica

    #37 of 366

    180 births on an average September 30

    INEC Costa Rica, 2014–⁠2024
  10. Philippines

    #41 of 366

    5,015 births on an average September 30

    PSA, 2006–⁠2024
  11. Chile

    #47 of 366

    717 births on an average September 30

    DEIS, 1990–⁠2017
  12. Japan

    #48 of 366

    2,923 births on an average September 30

    e-Stat, 1996–⁠2025
  13. Malaysia

    #54 of 366

    1,460 births on an average September 30

    DOSM, 2000–⁠2022
  14. Denmark

    #55 of 366

    176 births on an average September 30

    Statistics Denmark, 2007–⁠2025
  15. Slovenia

    #59 of 366

    57 births on an average September 30

    SURS, 2000–⁠2025
  16. Finland

    #67 of 366

    148 births on an average September 30

    Statistics Finland, 2010–⁠2025
  17. Belgium

    #68 of 366

    337 births on an average September 30

    Statbel, 1992–⁠2025
  18. Guatemala

    #68 of 366

    982 births on an average September 30

    INE Guatemala, 2018–⁠2024
  19. Mexico

    #87 of 366

    5,284 births on an average September 30

    INEGI, 2017–⁠2023
  20. Latvia

    #121 of 366

    55 births on an average September 30

    CSB, 1996–⁠2025
  21. Hungary

    #143 of 366

    329 births on an average September 30

    KSH, 1970–⁠2020
  22. Norway

    #190 of 366

    156 births on an average September 30

    SSB, 2011–⁠2025
  23. Ecuador

    #215 of 366

    758 births on an average September 30

    INEC, 2013–⁠2023
  24. Peru

    #222 of 366

    1,186 births on an average September 30

    INEI, 2019–⁠2025
  25. Brazil

    #273 of 366

    7,668 births on an average September 30

    DATASUS, 1997–⁠2024
  26. Argentina

    #329 of 366

    1,356 births on an average September 30

    DEIS, 2018–⁠2023
Zoom out

September against the other eleven

September 30 is the 6th 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.

September 30 is the 3rd rarest 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 30#110 of 36611,093 births a year

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Questions

Quick answers

How many babies are born on September 30?

About 11,093 a year in the United States. It was at its most common in 1969, when 11,138 babies were born and it ranked #9 of 365; at its rarest in 2018, with 7,309 births at #321.

Is September 30 a common birthday?

In the United States, September 30 is the 110th most common of 366 dates, with about 11,093 births a year. That makes it an ordinary birthday: neither rare nor especially common.

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. 28 other dates are within 1% of September 30's count, spread from #96 to #124, 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 30 rarer in other countries?

In some. It is rarer in 7 of the 26 other countries we hold daily records for. It is at its rarest in Argentina, at #329 of 366, and at its most common in New Zealand, at #2.

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