HOW COMMON IS YOUR BIRTHDAY?

You might think human birthdays are pretty much spread out evenly across the year. You would be wrong. How common is your birthday in the United States? Data visualization artist Bo McCready crunched the numbers using publicly available data from the Social Security Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics and made an interactive chart of the most common birthdays in America. Some of the findings:
(Chart here: https://digg.com/2020/the-most-common-birthdays-in-the-us-visualized)
– Generally, between 10,000 and 12,000 people are born each day in America.
– The number of daily births are higher in July, August and September than the rest of the year.
– September is by far the most popular month to be born. (* Happy New Year, indeed!)
– Relatively few people, however, are born on holidays. The least amount of people are born on December 25th (6,400 average), January 1st (7,700 average) and July 4 (8,800 average).
– April Fool’s Day is also on the low side of the birth rate.
– September 11th also has a relatively low birth rate. However, September 12th is the day of the most common birthday of the year.
* How do you count February 29th on a Leap Year?
* Is there a spike 9 months after Oktoberfest? Or Spring Break?
* I’ve always been amazed how so many famous people were born on holidays. Abe Lincoln on Lincoln’s birthday, George Washington on Washington’s birthday, St. Patrick on St Patrick’s Day…
* The takeaway from this is, you’d better order your birthday cake early.