How common is a August 21 birthday?
August 21
Very common
More common than 83.8%of other birthday dates.
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August 21 is the 60th most common birthday of the 366 dates in this collection, and the 307th rarest. It records 245,635 births out of 85,712,738, so roughly 1 in 349 people in this sample were born on it.
It is more common than 83.8% of the other 365 dates and rarer than 16.2%. It records 104.7% of an average day’s count in the sample.
August 21 among all 366 dates
All 366 dates sorted from most to least common by recorded U.S. births 1994–2014, coloured by rarity tier, with August 21 marked.
August 21 against the days around it
| Date | Total births | Rank of 366 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| August 18 | 246,091 | #57 | |
| August 19 | 245,213 | #63 | |
| August 20 | 248,334 | #37 | |
| August 21 (this date) | 245,635 | #60 | |
| August 22 | 249,378 | #30 | |
| August 23 | 245,616 | #61 | |
| August 24 | 241,266 | #101 |
August as a whole records 11,712 births per day, ranked #2 of 12 months. Month ranking · August 20 · August 22
Has August 21 changed over time?
Annual U.S. birth totals changed across this window, so a raw daily count moves with the size of the year. The chart uses each year's share of that year's births instead, in births per 100,000. Averaged over the first five observed years it is 291.8 per 100,000; over the last five, 275.6 per 100,000 (-5.6%).
August 21 as a share of each year’s U.S. births, 1994–2014
Births on August 21 per 100,000 births in that year, one point per year, with the change of source at 2000 marked and the first-five and last-five year means drawn as bands.
| Year | Births on this date | Per 100,000 births | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 8,663 | 219.2 | |
| 1995 | 11,436 | 293.3 | |
| 1996 | 12,338 | 317.1 | |
| 1997 | 12,121 | 312.3 | |
| 1998 | 12,496 | 317.0 | |
| 1999 | 9,114 | 230.2 | |
| 2000 | 12,003 | 289.3 | |
| 2001 | 13,590 | 330.6 | |
| 2002 | 13,356 | 325.8 | |
| 2003 | 13,528 | 325.0 | |
| 2004 | 8,944 | 213.6 | |
| 2005 | 7,776 | 184.6 | |
| 2006 | 13,236 | 305.3 | |
| 2007 | 14,541 | 331.9 | |
| 2008 | 14,010 | 325.0 | |
| 2009 | 13,291 | 317.1 | |
| 2010 | 8,404 | 207.2 | |
| 2011 | 7,493 | 187.0 | |
| 2012 | 13,239 | 330.9 | |
| 2013 | 12,903 | 324.7 | |
| 2014 | 13,153 | 328.0 |
Source break: 1994–1999 counts come from the CDC/NCHS daily file and 2000–2014 from the Social Security Administration daily file. The overlapping years 2000–2003 are taken from the SSA file only, so each year is counted once. But the step at 2000 is a change of source as well as a change of year, and any comparison across it includes that change.
The weekday the date fell on, scheduling practice and recording practice are all inside these lines.
A generation earlier, in the separate daily file for 1969–1988, August 21 ranked #55 of 366 with 10,164 births per occurrence. The 1969–1988 calendar and what changed since.
August 21 in five countries
Countries are compared only over the matched years 2007–2014, which all five sources cover completely, and using births per occurrence so that leap day is handled the same way everywhere. Each country's records are counted on their own.
| Country | Rank of 366 | Index (100 = average day) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | #37 | 107.6 | |
| England & Wales | #84 | 101.9 | |
| Denmark | #11 | 110.5 | |
| Metropolitan France | #67 | 103.5 | |
| Malaysia | #190 | 99.5 |
In the matched window the U.S. rank is #37; over the full 1994–2014 collection it is #60. The two numbers answer different questions and usually differ for two reasons at once: the window is eight years against twenty-one, and the metric is births per occurrence against the total across the whole period. Every figure on this page names its window and its metric. Full five-country study.
Among the 6,025,603 people living in Denmark on January 1, 2026, 16,635 have this birthday, one resident in 362. A count of people living there, wherever they were born. How many people in Denmark share a birthday.
Born on August 21
12 people from the English Wikipedia “On this day” birth lists, oldest first. A reading list. Every birth figure on this page comes from the national records.
- Mark Williams1954New Zealand-born singer
- Jim McMahon1959American football player
- Jon Korfas1962Greek-American professional basketball player and coach
- Jim Bullinger1965American baseball player
- John Wetteland1966American baseball player
- Carrie-Anne Moss1967Canadian actress
- Alicia Witt1975American actress
- Reuben Droughns1978American football player
- Kelis1979American singer
- Jodie Meeks1987American basketball player
- Kacey Musgraves1988American singer
- Corbin Carroll2000American baseball player
Names and descriptions from English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0, retrieved 2026-09-11; curated arts/science/sport entries, years 1800–2008. not a celebrity census. conflicting identities excluded.
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Sources, method and limits
Main ranking: 85,712,738 recorded U.S. births on 7,670 calendar dates, 1994–2014. CDC/NCHS daily counts for 1994–1999 and Social Security Administration daily counts for 2000–2014, as compiled by FiveThirtyEight and attributed under CC BY 4.0. The overlapping years 2000–2003 are counted once.
Ranks compare totals across the 366 observed month-and-day dates. February 29 occurred 5 times in this window; every other date occurred 21 times, so per-occurrence figures are used wherever seasonality is compared.
Every figure above comes from the administrative records named here, at the granularity those records publish: a day, a month or a year. Coverage and definitions differ between countries and eras, so two sources are combined only where their documentation states the windows are separate, and the page where that happens says so.
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