How common is a May 15 birthday?

May 15 is an average birthday in the U.S. It ranks 159th out of 366 days, with an average of 11,203 births a day from 1994 to 2014, about the same as a typical day.

Rank
159th of 366
Births on an average day
11,203
Zodiac sign
♉ Taurus
Likely conceived around
August 22

Where May 15 falls in the year

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Average daily U.S. births, 1994-2014

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Famous people born on May 15

  • Jasper Johns(1930)
  • Kathleen Sebelius(1948)
  • John Smoltz(1967)
  • Richard Avedon(1923)
  • Roger E Ailes(1940)
  • Madeleine K Albright(1937)
  • Don Nelson(1940)
  • Claudio Monteverdi(1567)

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