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