What was the most common birthday in England & Wales in 2022?

Name: England and Wales births by day, 2022
Creator: Office for National Statistics
Published: 2026-09-15

Published by Birthday Traffic · September 15, 2026 · Sources and method

September 30most births in 2022a Friday, 1,944 births
December 26fewest births in 2022a Monday, 1,123 births
Septemberbusiest month per day1,739 births per day
80%weekend levelSaturday and Sunday against a weekday, per day; Thursday busiest

In 2022, England and Wales recorded 605,479 births over 365 days, 1,659 on an average day. The busiest single date was September 30, a Friday, with 1,944 births; the quietest was December 26, a Monday, with 1,123. September was the busiest month per day and Thursday the busiest weekday; a Saturday or Sunday recorded about 80% of a weekday’s births. Within one year each date has one weekday, so every table here names it. The multi-year ranking for England & Wales is on its own page.

Every day of 2022 in England & Wales: recorded births

Every day of 2022 in calendar order as one line, with the busiest and quietest dates marked and the year’s average day drawn across it.

The regular dips are weekends. The deepest dips are fixed holidays.

The busiest dates of 2022

Dates of 2022 with the most recorded births in England & Wales
Date	Weekday	Births	% of an average day
September 30	Friday	1,944	117.2
September 22	Thursday	1,937	116.8
June 1	Wednesday	1,925	116.0
November 2	Wednesday	1,922	115.9
October 26	Wednesday	1,920	115.7
November 3	Thursday	1,897	114.4
August 25	Thursday	1,896	114.3
July 12	Tuesday	1,893	114.1
September 28	Wednesday	1,891	114.0
September 21	Wednesday	1,889	113.9

The quietest dates of 2022

Dates of 2022 with the fewest recorded births in England & Wales
Date	Weekday	Births	% of an average day
December 26	Monday	1,123	67.7
December 25	Sunday	1,158	69.8
April 17	Sunday	1,254	75.6
December 24	Saturday	1,290	77.8
December 27	Tuesday	1,311	79.0
March 27	Sunday	1,311	79.0
December 10	Saturday	1,328	80.1
April 3	Sunday	1,328	80.1
November 27	Sunday	1,334	80.4
April 18	Monday	1,334	80.4

2022 by weekday and by month

England & Wales, 2022: births per day by weekday

Seven columns, Monday to Sunday, average recorded births per day in 2022.

England & Wales, 2022: births per day by weekday
Weekday	Days	Births per day
Thursday	52	1,793
Wednesday	52	1,785
Friday	52	1,761
Tuesday	52	1,759
Monday	52	1,708
Saturday	53	1,414
Sunday	52	1,397

England & Wales, 2022: births per day by month
Month	Births	Births per day
September	52,180	1,739
October	52,845	1,705
August	52,123	1,681
July	52,042	1,679
November	50,356	1,679
June	49,833	1,661
February	46,349	1,655
May	51,245	1,653
March	51,230	1,653
April	48,376	1,613
January	49,711	1,604
December	49,189	1,587

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Sources, method and limits

Source: Office for National Statistics, daily live births by date of occurrence, Table 12 of the births release of September 8, 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Births occurring in England and Wales, including to mothers resident elsewhere, as registered by the release date. 605,479 births over 365 days; the weekday of each day is taken from the calendar date. One year, one country, one series.

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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