How common is a December 5 birthday?

December 5 is an average birthday in the U.S. It ranks 167th out of 366 days, with an average of 11,190 births a day from 1994 to 2014, about the same as a typical day.

Rank: 167th of 366
Births on an average day: 11,190
Zodiac sign: ♐ Sagittarius
Likely conceived around: March 14

Where December 5 falls in the year

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Average daily U.S. births, 1994-2014

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Famous people born on December 5

Joan Didion(1934)
Moshe Katsav(1945)
Strom Thurmond(1902)
Calvin Trillin(1935)
James Lee Burke(1936)
Bhumibol Adulyadej(1927)
Margaret Cho(1968)
Hanif Kureishi(1954)

Source: CDC National Center for Health Statistics (1994–1999) and Social Security Administration (2000–2014), via FiveThirtyEight. About the data