How common is a January 12 birthday?

January 12 is an uncommon birthday in the U.S. It ranks 247th out of 366 days, with an average of 10,976 births a day from 1994 to 2014, 2% fewer than a typical day.

Rank: 247th of 366
Births on an average day: 10,976
Zodiac sign: ♑ Capricorn
Likely conceived around: April 21

Where January 12 falls in the year

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Average daily U.S. births, 1994-2014

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Famous people born on January 12

Rush Limbaugh(1951)
Howard Stern(1954)
Raf Simons(1968)
Haruki Murakami(1949)
Walter Mosley(1952)
Morton Feldman(1926)
Jeffrey P Bezos(1964)
Christiane Amanpour(1958)

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