Birthdays always seem to fall on random days, which makes for a great excuse to celebrate during an otherwise slow time of the year. However, a select few people are born on rather rare dates. In fact, according to Zippia, a career research company that created a birthday heat map using the most recent decade-long data from the Social Security Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)'s National Center for Health Statistics, the least common birthdays are on or around popular holidays, including Independence Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and more. Read on and discover which birthdays are the rarest as well as how many babies, on average, are born on the same day. And on the opposite end of the spectrum, This Is the Most Common Birthday in the U.S.
20 | February 29
ShutterstockAverage number of births per year: 10,462
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19 | July 5
ShutterstockAverage number of births per year: 10,404
18 | May 26
Shutterstock/Monkey Business ImagesAverage number of births per year: 10,401
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17 | December 31
ShutterstockAverage number of births per year: 10,394
16 | April 13
ShutterstockAverage number of births per year: 10,389
15 | December 23
Romrodphoto/ShutterstockAverage number of births per year: 10,338
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14 | April 1
ShutterstockAverage number of births per year: 10,300
13 | November 28
iStockAverage number of births per year: 10,096
12 | November 26
ShutterstockAverage number of births per year: 10,044
11 | November 24
iStockAverage number of births per year: 10,015
10 | October 31
iStockAverage number of births per year: 9,978
8 | November 23
iStockAverage number of births per year: 9,883
7 | November 27
ShutterstockAverage number of births per year: 9,718
6 | December 26
Shutterstock/file404Average number of births per year: 9,543
5 | January 2
ShutterstockAverage number of births per year: 9,307
4 | July 4
ShutterstockAverage number of births per year: 8,796
3 | December 24
ShutterstockAverage number of births per year: 8,069
2 | January 1
ShutterstockAverage number of births per year: 7,792
1 | December 25
ShutterstockAverage number of births per year: 6,574
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