Birthday rarity calculator
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January 1 birthday rarity
January 1, 2001 is 30% rarer than average in the 1994–2014 U.S. birth records.
This birthday is exceptionally rare in the historical birth data.
A little more birthday fun
Your Birthday Profile
Here are the calendar traditions and countdown details connected with January 1, 2001.
New Year's Day Rarity
January 1 is often treated as a rare birthday because it lands on a major holiday and scheduled deliveries are less likely.
Your zodiac, just for fun
♑ Capricorn
In astrology, Capricorn is often described as dependable, goal-minded, and willing to keep going when a task takes time.
Astrology is a tradition rather than a scientific personality test, so enjoy this as a playful part of your birthday profile.
January birthday details
January begins the calendar year and is traditionally linked with garnet, carnations, and snowdrops.
January runs a little quieter than the full-year average in the historical U.S. birth records. Its calendar dates average about 0.263% of recorded births each in the historical dataset, which is 4% rarer than the full-year average.
Your date in the historical data
January 1 represents about 0.192% of the recorded births in the 1994–2014 source series, with 164,362 recorded births on this month-and-day.
Why the year matters
Your birth year confirms the date, tells us which weekday you were born on, and identifies moving holidays. The rarity score itself remains based on your month and day.
Shared birthdays are surprisingly likely
In a group of 23 people, there is roughly a 50 percent chance that two people share a birthday. Your score compares dates; it does not mean nobody else shares yours.
Birthday twins in the spotlight
Famous people born on January 1
Meet some well-known people who share your month and day. Their birth years may differ, but the birthday date is the same.
Author
J. D. Salinger
Born January 1, 1919
The author is best known for The Catcher in the Rye and a small body of influential short fiction.
DJ and music pioneer
Grandmaster Flash
Born January 1, 1958
The hip-hop pioneer helped shape turntablism and was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame with the Furious Five.
Actor
Verne Troyer
Born January 1, 1969
The actor became widely recognized for playing Mini-Me in the Austin Powers film series.
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How common is my birthday?
The calculator shows both sides of the ranking, so you can see how rare or common your birthday is using recorded U.S. births from 1994 through 2014.
These rankings use historical U.S. daily birth records, not synthetic daily estimates. Compare the rarest birthdays and most common birthdays for the full tables.
Understanding your score
What makes a birthday rare?
Birthdays are not spread perfectly evenly across the calendar. Some seasons have more births than others, while major holidays and days affected by scheduling can have fewer. The calculator compares your month and day with the other 365 calendar dates in 85,712,738 recorded U.S. births from 1994–2014, then converts that rarity rank into a score.
A higher score means your date appears toward the rarer end of the historical ranking. A lower score means it appears toward the more common end. The recorded count, share, rank, and score all describe the same month-and-day comparison.
February 29 is different from every recurring date because it only appears in leap years. Its calendar rarity and its recorded birth total are related ideas, but they are not exactly the same measurement.
More than a number
Why People Love Exploring How Rare Their Birthday Is
Birthday rarity is a simple question with a surprisingly fun answer. People use the calculator to compare dates with friends and family, see whether a birthday falls near the rare or common end of the calendar, and discover famous people who share the same date.
The result also gives a familiar date a new bit of context. A birthday can land on a major holiday, appear in a busy stretch of the year, or sit near one of the quieter parts of the historical record. None of that makes one birthday better than another, but it does make the calendar more interesting to explore.
If you want to keep going, compare the rarest birthdays, the most common birthdays, or find celebrity birthday matches for your date.
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Where the Data Comes From
The birthday rarity ranking uses 85,712,738 recorded U.S. births from 1994–2014. The daily records come from CDC/NCHS data for 1994–1999 and Social Security Administration data for 2000–2014, combined into one non-overlapping historical series.
Those records are grouped by month and day to compare all 366 possible calendar dates. The site does not invent daily differences for countries where equivalent source data is not available, and it does not present the historical U.S. ranking as a worldwide birth distribution.
For the source files, ranking method, Leap Day treatment, and score calculation, see the full birthday rarity methodology.