How common is a February 12 birthday?
February 12
Uncommon
Rarer than 71.2%of other birthday dates.
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February 12 is the 261st most common birthday of the 366 dates in this collection, and the 106th rarest. It records 229,853 births out of 85,712,738, so roughly 1 in 373 people in this sample were born on it.
It is more common than 28.8% of the other 365 dates and rarer than 71.2%. It records 97.9% of an average day’s count in the sample.
February 12 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 February 12 marked.
February 12 against the days around it
| Date | Total births | Rank of 366 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| February 9 | 229,501 | #277 | |
| February 10 | 232,075 | #215 | |
| February 11 | 232,129 | #213 | |
| February 12 (this date) | 229,853 | #261 | |
| February 13 | 223,590 | #344 | |
| February 14 | 245,412 | #62 | |
| February 15 | 235,803 | #153 |
February as a whole records 10,981 births per day, ranked #8 of 12 months. Month ranking · February 11 · February 13
Has February 12 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 262.6 per 100,000; over the last five, 258.2 per 100,000 (-1.7%).
February 12 as a share of each year’s U.S. births, 1994–2014
Births on February 12 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 | 8,945 | 226.3 | |
| 1995 | 8,007 | 205.3 | |
| 1996 | 10,542 | 270.9 | |
| 1997 | 11,548 | 297.6 | |
| 1998 | 12,329 | 312.8 | |
| 1999 | 11,709 | 295.7 | |
| 2000 | 8,836 | 212.9 | |
| 2001 | 11,670 | 283.9 | |
| 2002 | 12,779 | 311.7 | |
| 2003 | 12,595 | 302.5 | |
| 2004 | 12,957 | 309.5 | |
| 2005 | 8,462 | 200.9 | |
| 2006 | 7,404 | 170.8 | |
| 2007 | 12,792 | 292.0 | |
| 2008 | 13,867 | 321.7 | |
| 2009 | 13,635 | 325.3 | |
| 2010 | 12,281 | 302.8 | |
| 2011 | 8,086 | 201.8 | |
| 2012 | 7,012 | 175.3 | |
| 2013 | 12,243 | 308.1 | |
| 2014 | 12,154 | 303.1 |
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, February 12 ranked #146 of 366 with 9,647 births per occurrence. The 1969–1988 calendar and what changed since.
February 12 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 | #124 | 102.1 | |
| England & Wales | #213 | 99.3 | |
| Denmark | #214 | 99.0 | |
| Metropolitan France | #184 | 99.9 | |
| Malaysia | #319 | 95.2 |
In the matched window the U.S. rank is #124; over the full 1994–2014 collection it is #261. 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, 16,567 have this birthday, one resident in 364. A count of people living there, wherever they were born. How many people in Denmark share a birthday.
Born on February 12
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.
- Michael McDonald1952American musician and producer
- Simon MacCorkindale1952–2010British actor
- Bobby Smith1958Canadian ice hockey player, executive
- John Michael Higgins1963American actor, comedian and game show host
- Rubén Amaro Jr.1965American baseball player
- Judd Winick1970American writer
- Tara Strong1973Canadian-American actress
- Gucci Mane1980American rapper and music executive
- Peter Vanderkaay1984American swimmer
- Mike Posner1988American singer
- Josh Harrellson1989American basketball player
- Paxton Lynch1994American football 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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