What was the most common birthday in Metropolitan France in 1976?

Name: Metropolitan France births by day, 1976
Creator: INSEE
Published: 2026-09-15

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

May 18most births in 1976a Tuesday, 2,361 births
December 25fewest births in 1976a Saturday, 1,574 births
Junebusiest month per day2,132 births per day
94%weekend levelSaturday and Sunday against a weekday, per day; Tuesday busiest

In 1976, Metropolitan France recorded 720,395 births over 366 days, 1,968 on an average day. The busiest single date was May 18, a Tuesday, with 2,361 births; the quietest was December 25, a Saturday, with 1,574. June was the busiest month per day and Tuesday the busiest weekday; a Saturday or Sunday recorded about 94% 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 1976 in Metropolitan France: recorded births

Every day of 1976 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 1976

Dates of 1976 with the most recorded births in Metropolitan France
Date	Weekday	Births	% of an average day
May 18	Tuesday	2,361	120.0
July 16	Friday	2,315	117.6
June 9	Wednesday	2,286	116.1
June 22	Tuesday	2,273	115.5
July 20	Tuesday	2,255	114.6
May 10	Monday	2,250	114.3
May 8	Saturday	2,242	113.9
June 29	Tuesday	2,236	113.6
June 25	Friday	2,234	113.5
June 16	Wednesday	2,225	113.0

The quietest dates of 1976

Dates of 1976 with the fewest recorded births in Metropolitan France
Date	Weekday	Births	% of an average day
December 25	Saturday	1,574	80.0
January 1	Thursday	1,591	80.8
October 24	Sunday	1,598	81.2
December 5	Sunday	1,605	81.5
October 17	Sunday	1,627	82.7
March 28	Sunday	1,639	83.3
November 21	Sunday	1,648	83.7
January 4	Sunday	1,652	83.9
January 18	Sunday	1,661	84.4
November 1	Monday	1,672	84.9

1976 by weekday and by month

Metropolitan France, 1976: births per day by weekday

Seven columns, Monday to Sunday, average recorded births per day in 1976.

Metropolitan France, 1976: births per day by weekday
Weekday	Days	Births per day
Tuesday	52	2,043
Friday	53	2,012
Wednesday	52	1,996
Thursday	53	1,988
Monday	52	1,983
Saturday	52	1,959
Sunday	52	1,796

Metropolitan France, 1976: births per day by month
Month	Births	Births per day
June	63,948	2,132
May	65,457	2,112
April	61,643	2,055
July	63,445	2,047
September	59,507	1,984
March	61,478	1,983
August	59,794	1,929
February	55,628	1,918
October	58,434	1,885
January	57,743	1,863
December	57,655	1,860
November	55,663	1,855

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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. 720,395 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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