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How common are October birthdays?

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October is the 5th most common birth month of the 12, at 11,204 recorded births per day, 0.3% above an average day across 85,712,738 U.S. births from 1994–2014. Its most common date is October 1 (#47 of 366) and its quietest date that occurs every year is October 31 (#356).

Every date is coloured by the same six rarity tiers the reveal uses; the small number is its rank of 366 from most common.

Every October date: recorded U.S. births 1994–2014

One column per October date in calendar order, coloured by rarity tier, total recorded births 1994–2014.

Every October date: recorded U.S. births 1994–2014One column per October date in calendar order, coloured by rarity tier, total recorded births 1994–2014.050,000100,000150,000200,000250,0001: 247,196247,19612: 244,2713: 246,2634: 242,1655: 237,55956: 238,7837: 238,6448: 238,4169: 234,977910: 243,88311: 237,53112: 232,00913: 226,7921314: 234,97715: 237,45916: 234,50817: 238,3741718: 235,10719: 228,65420: 233,28221: 233,0442122: 235,26823: 233,09924: 237,88125: 235,8232526: 230,33327: 232,42328: 233,98229: 232,1852930: 228,30531: 210,629210,629
Calendar order; each column is the date’s total across the window, in its rarity colour.

Every October date, ranked

Ranked by total recorded births across the 21 years, the same measure as the site-wide rank of 366.

Recorded U.S. births per October date, 1994–2014
DateTotal birthsRank of 366Odds
October 1247,196#471 in 347
October 3246,263#531 in 348
October 2244,271#721 in 351
October 10243,883#791 in 351
October 4242,165#941 in 354
October 6238,783#1151 in 359
October 7238,644#1181 in 359
October 8238,416#1201 in 360
October 17238,374#1221 in 360
October 24237,881#1271 in 360
October 5237,559#1291 in 361
October 11237,531#1301 in 361
October 15237,459#1311 in 361
October 25235,823#1521 in 363
October 22235,268#1591 in 364
October 18235,107#1641 in 365
October 9234,977#1681 in 365
October 14234,977#1681 in 365
October 16234,508#1751 in 366
October 28233,982#1831 in 366
October 20233,282#1931 in 367
October 23233,099#1981 in 368
October 21233,044#1991 in 368
October 27232,423#2061 in 369
October 29232,185#2111 in 369
October 12232,009#2171 in 369
October 26230,333#2501 in 372
October 19228,654#2941 in 375
October 30228,305#2991 in 375
October 13226,792#3171 in 378
October 31210,629#3561 in 407

October in the year

October has 8.51% of all recorded births in this sample, over 651 observed days. Months are ranked by births per day. On that measure October is #5 of 12, against September at the top (11,811 per day) and January at the bottom (10,721). Full month ranking.

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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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