How common is a January 1 birthday?
January 1 is a quite rare birthday in the U.S. It ranks 365th out of 366 days, with an average of 7,827 births a day from 1994 to 2014, 30% fewer than a typical day.
- Rank
- 365th of 366
- Births on an average day
- 7,827
- Zodiac sign
- ♑ Capricorn
- Likely conceived around
- April 10
Where January 1 falls in the year
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Average daily U.S. births, 1994-2014
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Famous people born on January 1
- Jon S Corzine(1947)
- William Shakespeare(1564)
- Ayad Allawi(1945)
- Omar Hassan Al- Bashir(1944)
- Richard M Scrushy(1952)
- Robert Menendez(1954)
- Peter Gelb(1953)
- Salim Ahmed Hamdan(1970)
Source: CDC National Center for Health Statistics (1994–1999) and Social Security Administration (2000–2014), via FiveThirtyEight. About the data