How common is a September 19 birthday?
September 19
Top 10 most common
Very common
More common than 99.7%of other birthday dates.
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- 12,285births in an average year21 years observed
- 110%of a typical day11,175 births on an average day
- #1 of 12September as a month11,811 births per day
- +0.4%share of births, then to nowfirst five vs last five observed years
September 19 is the 2nd most common birthday of the 366 dates in this collection, and the 365th rarest. It records 257,981 births out of 85,712,738, so roughly 1 in 332 people in this sample were born on it.
It is more common than 99.7% of the other 365 dates and rarer than 0.3%. It records 109.9% of an average dayβs count in the sample.
September 19 among all 366 dates
All 366 dates sorted from most to least common by recorded U.S. births 1994β2014, coloured by rarity tier, with September 19 marked.
September 19 against the days around it
| Date | Total births | Rank of 366 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| September 16 | 254,393 | #9 | |
| September 17 | 256,231 | #4 | |
| September 18 | 254,350 | #10 | |
| September 19 (this date) | 257,981 | #2 | |
| September 20 | 255,392 | #6 | |
| September 21 | 248,978 | #32 | |
| September 22 | 251,168 | #22 |
September as a whole records 11,811 births per day, ranked #1 of 12 months. Month ranking Β· September 18 Β· September 20
Has September 19 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 301.6 per 100,000; over the last five, 302.9 per 100,000 (+0.4%).
September 19 as a share of each yearβs U.S. births, 1994β2014
Births on September 19 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 | 11,659 | 295.0 | |
| 1995 | 12,692 | 325.5 | |
| 1996 | 12,535 | 322.1 | |
| 1997 | 12,560 | 323.6 | |
| 1998 | 9,541 | 242.1 | |
| 1999 | 8,559 | 216.2 | |
| 2000 | 13,850 | 333.8 | |
| 2001 | 13,575 | 330.2 | |
| 2002 | 13,899 | 339.1 | |
| 2003 | 13,560 | 325.7 | |
| 2004 | 8,251 | 197.1 | |
| 2005 | 13,460 | 319.6 | |
| 2006 | 15,205 | 350.7 | |
| 2007 | 14,783 | 337.5 | |
| 2008 | 14,151 | 328.3 | |
| 2009 | 9,032 | 215.5 | |
| 2010 | 7,899 | 194.7 | |
| 2011 | 12,818 | 319.9 | |
| 2012 | 13,490 | 337.2 | |
| 2013 | 13,333 | 335.6 | |
| 2014 | 13,129 | 327.4 |
Source break: 1994β1999 counts come from the CDC/NCHS daily file and 2000β2014 from the Social Security Administration daily file. The overlapping years 2000β2003 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 1969β1988, September 19 ranked #8 of 366 with 10,523 births per occurrence. The 1969β1988 calendar and what changed since.
September 19 in five countries
Countries are compared only over the matched years 2007β2014, 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 | #20 | 109.4 | |
| England & Wales | #5 | 108.3 | |
| Denmark | #76 | 104.7 | |
| Metropolitan France | #13 | 107.0 | |
| Malaysia | #5 | 110.2 |
In the matched window the U.S. rank is #20; over the full 1994β2014 collection it is #2. 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, 17,170 have this birthday, one resident in 351. A count of people living there, wherever they were born. How many people in Denmark share a birthday.
Born on September 19
12 people from the English Wikipedia βOn this dayβ birth lists, oldest first. A reading list. Every birth figure on this page comes from the national records.
- Mariangela Melato1941β2013Italian actress
- Joe Morgan1943β2020American baseball player and analyst
- Sidney Wicks1949American basketball player
- Artur Ekert1961British-Polish physicist
- Dimitri Yachvili1980France international rugby union player
- CJ McCollum1991American basketball player
- Pi'erre Bourne1993American record producer and rapper
- Brent Faiyaz1995American R&B singer
- Brandon Clarke1996β2026Canadian-American basketball player
- Dejounte Murray1996American basketball player
- Trae Young1998American basketball player
- Precious Achiuwa1999Nigerian basketball player
Names and descriptions from English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0, retrieved 2026-09-11; curated arts/science/sport entries, years 1800β2008. 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, 1994β2014. CDC/NCHS daily counts for 1994β1999 and Social Security Administration daily counts for 2000β2014, as compiled by FiveThirtyEight and attributed under CC BY 4.0. The overlapping years 2000β2003 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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