What was the most common birthday in Metropolitan France in 1983?

Name: Metropolitan France births by day, 1983
Creator: INSEE
Published: 2026-09-15

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

May 5most births in 1983a Thursday, 2,451 births
December 25fewest births in 1983a Sunday, 1,554 births
Maybusiest month per day2,220 births per day
88%weekend levelSaturday and Sunday against a weekday, per day; Tuesday busiest

In 1983, Metropolitan France recorded 748,525 births over 365 days, 2,051 on an average day. The busiest single date was May 5, a Thursday, with 2,451 births; the quietest was December 25, a Sunday, with 1,554. 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 1983 in Metropolitan France: recorded births

Every day of 1983 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 1983

Dates of 1983 with the most recorded births in Metropolitan France
Date	Weekday	Births	% of an average day
May 5	Thursday	2,451	119.5
June 8	Wednesday	2,441	119.0
May 10	Tuesday	2,440	119.0
July 19	Tuesday	2,436	118.8
May 6	Friday	2,433	118.6
May 13	Friday	2,430	118.5
July 26	Tuesday	2,425	118.2
July 12	Tuesday	2,421	118.1
July 13	Wednesday	2,403	117.2
May 11	Wednesday	2,387	116.4

The quietest dates of 1983

Dates of 1983 with the fewest recorded births in Metropolitan France
Date	Weekday	Births	% of an average day
December 25	Sunday	1,554	75.8
October 23	Sunday	1,577	76.9
November 13	Sunday	1,581	77.1
November 6	Sunday	1,585	77.3
November 20	Sunday	1,594	77.7
November 1	Tuesday	1,596	77.8
December 4	Sunday	1,620	79.0
December 18	Sunday	1,628	79.4
January 1	Saturday	1,636	79.8
November 27	Sunday	1,647	80.3

1983 by weekday and by month

Metropolitan France, 1983: births per day by weekday

Seven columns, Monday to Sunday, average recorded births per day in 1983.

Metropolitan France, 1983: births per day by weekday
Weekday	Days	Births per day
Tuesday	52	2,166
Friday	52	2,140
Wednesday	52	2,129
Thursday	52	2,127
Monday	52	2,073
Saturday	53	1,958
Sunday	52	1,765

Metropolitan France, 1983: births per day by month
Month	Births	Births per day
May	68,829	2,220
June	66,146	2,205
July	68,091	2,196
April	62,754	2,092
August	63,518	2,049
September	61,396	2,047
February	57,134	2,041
March	62,166	2,005
January	61,042	1,969
October	60,295	1,945
December	60,065	1,938
November	57,089	1,903

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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. 748,525 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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