What was the most common birthday in Metropolitan France in 1969?

Name: Metropolitan France births by day, 1969
Creator: INSEE
Published: 2026-09-15

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

May 13most births in 1969a Tuesday, 2,805 births
November 2fewest births in 1969a Sunday, 1,949 births
Maybusiest month per day2,481 births per day
96%weekend levelSaturday and Sunday against a weekday, per day; Tuesday busiest

In 1969, Metropolitan France recorded 842,245 births over 365 days, 2,308 on an average day. The busiest single date was May 13, a Tuesday, with 2,805 births; the quietest was November 2, a Sunday, with 1,949. May was the busiest month per day and Tuesday the busiest weekday; a Saturday or Sunday recorded about 96% of a weekday’s births. Within one year each date has one weekday, so every table here names it. The multi-year ranking for Metropolitan France is on its own page.

Every day of 1969 in Metropolitan France: recorded births

Every day of 1969 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 1969

Dates of 1969 with the most recorded births in Metropolitan France
Date	Weekday	Births	% of an average day
May 13	Tuesday	2,805	121.6
May 12	Monday	2,749	119.1
May 14	Wednesday	2,692	116.7
May 3	Saturday	2,660	115.3
May 2	Friday	2,654	115.0
May 10	Saturday	2,634	114.1
May 6	Tuesday	2,569	111.3
July 16	Wednesday	2,565	111.2
April 9	Wednesday	2,547	110.4
February 14	Friday	2,545	110.3

The quietest dates of 1969

Dates of 1969 with the fewest recorded births in Metropolitan France
Date	Weekday	Births	% of an average day
November 2	Sunday	1,949	84.5
October 26	Sunday	1,955	84.7
November 30	Sunday	1,967	85.2
November 9	Sunday	1,983	85.9
November 1	Saturday	1,984	86.0
August 3	Sunday	1,999	86.6
December 21	Sunday	2,000	86.7
November 16	Sunday	2,009	87.1
January 1	Wednesday	2,014	87.3
August 24	Sunday	2,024	87.7

1969 by weekday and by month

Metropolitan France, 1969: births per day by weekday

Seven columns, Monday to Sunday, average recorded births per day in 1969.

Metropolitan France, 1969: births per day by weekday
Weekday	Days	Births per day
Tuesday	52	2,360
Wednesday	53	2,348
Friday	52	2,339
Monday	52	2,331
Saturday	52	2,316
Thursday	52	2,299
Sunday	52	2,159

Metropolitan France, 1969: births per day by month
Month	Births	Births per day
May	76,896	2,481
March	74,871	2,415
April	72,018	2,401
February	66,375	2,371
June	70,852	2,362
July	72,359	2,334
September	68,587	2,286
January	70,318	2,268
December	68,796	2,219
October	68,777	2,219
August	67,686	2,183
November	64,710	2,157

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Sources, method and limits

Source: INSEE, T79jnais, daily births in metropolitan France, open licence of the publisher. Metropolitan France only; the whole-of-France detail file behind the 2025 page is a separate series. 842,245 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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