How common is a August 31 birthday?
August 31 is a fairly common birthday in the U.S. It ranks 85th out of 366 days, with an average of 11,592 births a day from 1994 to 2014, 4% more than a typical day.
- Rank
- 85th of 366
- Births on an average day
- 11,592
- Zodiac sign
- ♍ Virgo
- Likely conceived around
- December 8
Where August 31 falls in the year
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Average daily U.S. births, 1994-2014
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Famous people born on August 31
- Tom Coughlin(1946)
- Thomas R Suozzi(1962)
- Hassan Nasrallah(1960)
- Padraig Harrington(1971)
- Richard Gere(1949)
- Itzhak Perlman(1945)
- Jim Fassel(1949)
- Barry Bearak(1949)
Source: CDC National Center for Health Statistics (1994–1999) and Social Security Administration (2000–2014), via FiveThirtyEight. About the data