How common is a August 17 birthday?
August 17 is a fairly common birthday in the U.S. It ranks 86th out of 366 days, with an average of 11,588 births a day from 1994 to 2014, 4% more than a typical day.
- Rank
- 86th of 366
- Births on an average day
- 11,588
- Zodiac sign
- ♌ Leo
- Likely conceived around
- November 24
Where August 17 falls in the year
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Average daily U.S. births, 1994-2014
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Famous people born on August 17
- Jorge Posada(1971)
- Robert De Niro(1943)
- Norm Coleman(1949)
- Sean Penn(1960)
- Judith Regan(1953)
- Lawrence J Ellison(1944)
- Eric Schlosser(1959)
- Jiang Zemin(1926)
Source: CDC National Center for Health Statistics (1994–1999) and Social Security Administration (2000–2014), via FiveThirtyEight. About the data