What was the most common birthday in Metropolitan France in 1972?

Name: Metropolitan France births by day, 1972
Creator: INSEE
Published: 2026-09-15

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

May 15most births in 1972a Monday, 2,739 births
November 26fewest births in 1972a Sunday, 1,987 births
Maybusiest month per day2,572 births per day
96%weekend levelSaturday and Sunday against a weekday, per day; Tuesday busiest

In 1972, Metropolitan France recorded 877,506 births over 366 days, 2,398 on an average day. The busiest single date was May 15, a Monday, with 2,739 births; the quietest was November 26, a Sunday, with 1,987. 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 1972 in Metropolitan France: recorded births

Every day of 1972 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 1972

Dates of 1972 with the most recorded births in Metropolitan France
Date	Weekday	Births	% of an average day
May 15	Monday	2,739	114.2
May 3	Wednesday	2,730	113.9
May 20	Saturday	2,701	112.7
June 27	Tuesday	2,699	112.6
April 27	Thursday	2,683	111.9
May 9	Tuesday	2,669	111.3
May 2	Tuesday	2,662	111.0
May 23	Tuesday	2,658	110.9
June 26	Monday	2,656	110.8
May 5	Friday	2,655	110.7

The quietest dates of 1972

Dates of 1972 with the fewest recorded births in Metropolitan France
Date	Weekday	Births	% of an average day
November 26	Sunday	1,987	82.9
December 31	Sunday	2,007	83.7
November 12	Sunday	2,035	84.9
November 5	Sunday	2,038	85.0
October 29	Sunday	2,040	85.1
January 1	Saturday	2,051	85.5
October 15	Sunday	2,060	85.9
November 19	Sunday	2,071	86.4
August 20	Sunday	2,103	87.7
November 11	Saturday	2,104	87.8
January 23	Sunday	2,104	87.8

11 dates are listed because the tenth total is shared.

1972 by weekday and by month

Metropolitan France, 1972: births per day by weekday

Seven columns, Monday to Sunday, average recorded births per day in 1972.

Metropolitan France, 1972: births per day by weekday
Weekday	Days	Births per day
Tuesday	52	2,453
Wednesday	52	2,426
Monday	52	2,426
Friday	52	2,419
Thursday	52	2,417
Saturday	53	2,405
Sunday	53	2,240

Metropolitan France, 1972: births per day by month
Month	Births	Births per day
May	79,743	2,572
June	75,698	2,523
April	75,391	2,513
July	76,199	2,458
March	76,074	2,454
February	69,083	2,382
January	73,345	2,366
December	72,600	2,342
September	69,937	2,331
August	72,082	2,325
October	69,873	2,254
November	67,481	2,249

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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. 877,506 births over 366 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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