What was the most common birthday in Metropolitan France in 1982?

Name: Metropolitan France births by day, 1982
Creator: INSEE
Published: 2026-09-15

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

May 13most births in 1982a Thursday, 2,632 births
December 25fewest births in 1982a Saturday, 1,590 births
Maybusiest month per day2,336 births per day
88%weekend levelSaturday and Sunday against a weekday, per day; Tuesday busiest

In 1982, Metropolitan France recorded 797,223 births over 365 days, 2,184 on an average day. The busiest single date was May 13, a Thursday, with 2,632 births; the quietest was December 25, a Saturday, with 1,590. May was the busiest month per day and Tuesday the busiest weekday; a Saturday or Sunday recorded about 88% 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 1982 in Metropolitan France: recorded births

Every day of 1982 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 1982

Dates of 1982 with the most recorded births in Metropolitan France
Date	Weekday	Births	% of an average day
May 13	Thursday	2,632	120.5
May 4	Tuesday	2,620	120.0
May 14	Friday	2,559	117.2
July 2	Friday	2,554	116.9
July 13	Tuesday	2,540	116.3
May 25	Tuesday	2,534	116.0
May 11	Tuesday	2,533	116.0
May 17	Monday	2,529	115.8
May 18	Tuesday	2,529	115.8
June 22	Tuesday	2,519	115.3

The quietest dates of 1982

Dates of 1982 with the fewest recorded births in Metropolitan France
Date	Weekday	Births	% of an average day
December 25	Saturday	1,590	72.8
December 19	Sunday	1,659	76.0
November 21	Sunday	1,683	77.1
November 28	Sunday	1,746	79.9
January 1	Friday	1,754	80.3
October 17	Sunday	1,759	80.5
December 5	Sunday	1,760	80.6
November 14	Sunday	1,768	80.9
November 1	Monday	1,776	81.3
January 24	Sunday	1,780	81.5

1982 by weekday and by month

Metropolitan France, 1982: births per day by weekday

Seven columns, Monday to Sunday, average recorded births per day in 1982.

Metropolitan France, 1982: births per day by weekday
Weekday	Days	Births per day
Tuesday	52	2,318
Thursday	52	2,274
Friday	53	2,269
Wednesday	52	2,251
Monday	52	2,207
Saturday	52	2,083
Sunday	52	1,885

Metropolitan France, 1982: births per day by month
Month	Births	Births per day
May	72,406	2,336
April	69,541	2,318
June	68,944	2,298
July	70,847	2,285
March	69,193	2,232
September	65,181	2,173
February	60,701	2,168
August	67,083	2,164
October	64,998	2,097
January	64,717	2,088
November	61,178	2,039
December	62,434	2,014

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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. 797,223 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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