How common is a January 31 birthday?
January 31 is an uncommon birthday in the U.S. It ranks 278th out of 366 days, with an average of 10,927 births a day from 1994 to 2014, 2% fewer than a typical day.
- Rank
- 278th of 366
- Births on an average day
- 10,927
- Zodiac sign
- ♒ Aquarius
- Likely conceived around
- May 10
Where January 31 falls in the year
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Average daily U.S. births, 1994-2014
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Famous people born on January 31
- Alan G Hevesi(1940)
- Philip Glass(1937)
- Jackie Robinson(1919)
- Norman Mailer(1923)
- Justin Timberlake(1981)
- Nolan Ryan(1947)
- Franz Schubert(1797)
- Sergei B Ivanov(1953)
Source: CDC National Center for Health Statistics (1994–1999) and Social Security Administration (2000–2014), via FiveThirtyEight. About the data