What was the most common birthday in England & Wales in 2025?

Name: England and Wales births by day, 2025
Creator: Office for National Statistics
Published: 2026-09-15

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

May 28most births in 2025a Wednesday, 1,844 births
December 26fewest births in 2025a Friday, 1,052 births
Julybusiest month per day1,658 births per day
78%weekend levelSaturday and Sunday against a weekday, per day; Thursday busiest

In 2025, England and Wales recorded 585,396 births over 365 days, 1,604 on an average day. The busiest single date was May 28, a Wednesday, with 1,844 births; the quietest was December 26, a Friday, with 1,052. July was the busiest month per day and Thursday the busiest weekday; a Saturday or Sunday recorded about 78% 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 2025 in England & Wales: recorded births

Every day of 2025 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 2025

Dates of 2025 with the most recorded births in England & Wales
Date	Weekday	Births	% of an average day
May 28	Wednesday	1,844	115.0
September 15	Monday	1,839	114.7
September 19	Friday	1,835	114.4
April 17	Thursday	1,834	114.4
December 23	Tuesday	1,833	114.3
May 2	Friday	1,828	114.0
September 25	Thursday	1,828	114.0
July 10	Thursday	1,821	113.5
July 2	Wednesday	1,818	113.4
May 29	Thursday	1,812	113.0
July 9	Wednesday	1,812	113.0

11 dates are listed because the tenth total is shared.

The quietest dates of 2025

Dates of 2025 with the fewest recorded births in England & Wales
Date	Weekday	Births	% of an average day
December 26	Friday	1,052	65.6
December 25	Thursday	1,053	65.7
December 27	Saturday	1,168	72.8
March 30	Sunday	1,217	75.9
January 1	Wednesday	1,222	76.2
December 6	Saturday	1,237	77.1
December 7	Sunday	1,241	77.4
November 29	Saturday	1,251	78.0
December 14	Sunday	1,261	78.6
December 28	Sunday	1,264	78.8

2025 by weekday and by month

England & Wales, 2025: births per day by weekday

Seven columns, Monday to Sunday, average recorded births per day in 2025.

England & Wales, 2025: births per day by weekday
Weekday	Days	Births per day
Thursday	52	1,736
Tuesday	52	1,723
Wednesday	53	1,714
Friday	52	1,713
Monday	52	1,671
Saturday	52	1,337
Sunday	52	1,332

England & Wales, 2025: births per day by month
Month	Births	Births per day
July	51,393	1,658
September	49,564	1,652
May	50,642	1,634
June	48,950	1,632
October	50,347	1,624
April	47,873	1,596
August	49,355	1,592
March	49,266	1,589
February	44,428	1,587
January	48,684	1,570
November	46,839	1,561
December	48,055	1,550

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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. 585,396 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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