What was the most common birthday in Metropolitan France in 1989?

Name: Metropolitan France births by day, 1989
Creator: INSEE
Published: 2026-09-15

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

May 12most births in 1989a Friday, 2,538 births
January 1fewest births in 1989a Sunday, 1,466 births
Maybusiest month per day2,205 births per day
81%weekend levelSaturday and Sunday against a weekday, per day; Tuesday busiest

In 1989, Metropolitan France recorded 765,473 births over 365 days, 2,097 on an average day. The busiest single date was May 12, a Friday, with 2,538 births; the quietest was January 1, a Sunday, with 1,466. May was the busiest month per day and Tuesday the busiest weekday; a Saturday or Sunday recorded about 81% 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 1989 in Metropolitan France: recorded births

Every day of 1989 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 1989

Dates of 1989 with the most recorded births in Metropolitan France
Date	Weekday	Births	% of an average day
May 12	Friday	2,538	121.0
July 13	Thursday	2,531	120.7
June 20	Tuesday	2,514	119.9
May 10	Wednesday	2,509	119.6
April 25	Tuesday	2,503	119.4
May 3	Wednesday	2,503	119.4
April 28	Friday	2,501	119.3
May 11	Thursday	2,491	118.8
July 7	Friday	2,488	118.6
May 2	Tuesday	2,487	118.6

The quietest dates of 1989

Dates of 1989 with the fewest recorded births in Metropolitan France
Date	Weekday	Births	% of an average day
January 1	Sunday	1,466	69.9
August 27	Sunday	1,511	72.0
January 8	Sunday	1,526	72.8
December 3	Sunday	1,544	73.6
January 15	Sunday	1,568	74.8
January 29	Sunday	1,573	75.0
December 25	Monday	1,574	75.1
March 5	Sunday	1,584	75.5
December 24	Sunday	1,591	75.9
September 3	Sunday	1,592	75.9

1989 by weekday and by month

Metropolitan France, 1989: births per day by weekday

Seven columns, Monday to Sunday, average recorded births per day in 1989.

Metropolitan France, 1989: births per day by weekday
Weekday	Days	Births per day
Tuesday	52	2,271
Thursday	52	2,234
Friday	52	2,228
Wednesday	52	2,217
Monday	52	2,156
Saturday	52	1,919
Sunday	53	1,664

Metropolitan France, 1989: births per day by month
Month	Births	Births per day
May	68,364	2,205
June	66,118	2,204
July	68,170	2,199
April	64,191	2,140
March	64,569	2,083
December	64,440	2,079
October	64,292	2,074
November	62,184	2,073
August	64,007	2,065
February	57,666	2,060
September	60,567	2,019
January	60,905	1,965

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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. 765,473 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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