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How common is a November 22 birthday?

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November 22

Rare

Rarer than 91.8%of other birthday dates.

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  • 10,709births in an average year21 years observed
  • 96%of a typical day11,175 births on an average day
  • #10 of 12November as a month10,927 births per day
  • +2.8%share of births, then to nowfirst five vs last five observed years

November 22 is the 336th most common birthday of the 366 dates in this collection, and the 31st rarest. It records 224,885 births out of 85,712,738, so roughly 1 in 381 people in this sample were born on it.

It is more common than 8.2% of the other 365 dates and rarer than 91.8%, which puts it in the top 10% rarest birthdays. It records 95.8% of an average day’s count in the sample.

November 22 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 November 22 marked.

November 22 among all 366 datesAll 366 dates sorted from most to least common by recorded U.S. births 1994–2014, coloured by rarity tier, with November 22 marked.0100,000200,000300,000Very common: 91 dates, ranks #1–#91Very commonCommon: 92 dates, ranks #92–#183CommonUncommon: 147 dates, ranks #184–#330UncommonRare: 18 dates, ranks #331–#348Very rare: 15 dates, ranks #349–#363Super rare: 3 dates, ranks #364–#366#336 November 22: 224,885November 22 · #336 of 366most commonleast common
Very common 91Common 92Uncommon 147Rare 18Very rare 15Super rare 3All 366 dates from most to least common, coloured by the six rarity tiers; November 22 is marked. Recorded U.S. births, 1994–2014.

November 22 against the days around it

Recorded U.S. births, November window, 1994–2014
DateTotal birthsRank of 366
November 19237,263#132
November 20241,571#100
November 21244,132#76
November 22 (this date)224,885#336
November 23208,301#358
November 24211,117#355
November 25210,021#357

November as a whole records 10,927 births per day, ranked #10 of 12 months. Month ranking · November 21 · November 23

Thanksgiving Day on this date

November 22 was Thanksgiving Day in 3 of the 21 years covered (2001, 2007, 2012), because Thanksgiving Day is the fourth Thursday in November. Across all 21 years, Thanksgiving Day recorded 59.7% of the births on nearby same-weekday control dates in the same year. So part of this date's total comes from holiday years and part from ordinary years.

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Has November 22 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 266.8 per 100,000; over the last five, 274.2 per 100,000 (+2.8%).

November 22 as a share of each year’s U.S. births, 1994–2014

Births on November 22 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.

November 22 as a share of each year’s U.S. births, 1994–2014Births on November 22 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.150200250300350SSA file from 2000first five: 266.8last five: 274.219941996199820002002200420062008201020122014per 100,000, 1994: 322.9 per 100,000per 100,000, 1995: 289.9 per 100,000per 100,000, 1996: 301.0 per 100,000per 100,000, 1997: 226.0 per 100,000per 100,000, 1998: 194.1 per 100,000per 100,000, 1999: 305.7 per 100,000per 100,000, 2000: 299.3 per 100,000per 100,000, 2001: 182.8 per 100,000per 100,000, 2002: 316.6 per 100,000per 100,000, 2003: 207.1 per 100,000per 100,000, 2004: 321.6 per 100,000per 100,000, 2005: 336.5 per 100,000per 100,000, 2006: 304.0 per 100,000per 100,000, 2007: 172.7 per 100,000per 100,000, 2008: 196.0 per 100,000per 100,000, 2009: 172.5 per 100,000per 100,000, 2010: 325.3 per 100,000per 100,000, 2011: 334.8 per 100,000per 100,000, 2012: 181.6 per 100,000per 100,000, 2013: 313.6 per 100,000per 100,000, 2014: 215.6 per 100,000per 100,000
The dotted line marks the change from the CDC/NCHS file to the SSA file.
November 22 as a share of that year's U.S. births
YearBirths on this datePer 100,000 births
199412,764322.9
199511,304289.9
199611,713301.0
19978,769226.0
19987,649194.1
199912,104305.7
200012,420299.3
20017,513182.8
200212,978316.6
20038,623207.1
200413,463321.6
200514,175336.5
200613,181304.0
20077,567172.7
20088,449196.0
20097,230172.5
201013,195325.3
201113,415334.8
20127,267181.6
201312,459313.6
20148,647215.6

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, November 22 ranked #338 of 366 with 9,204 births per occurrence. The 1969–1988 calendar and what changed since.

November 22 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.

November 22 rank and intensity, 2007–2014
CountryRank of 366Index (100 = average day)
United States#35986.8
England & Wales#27998.1
Denmark#30194.9
Metropolitan France#27997.7
Malaysia#177100.0

In the matched window the U.S. rank is #359; over the full 1994–2014 collection it is #336. 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, 15,346 have this birthday, one resident in 393. A count of people living there, wherever they were born. How many people in Denmark share a birthday.

Born on November 22

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.

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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