How common is a May 17 birthday?
May 17 is an average birthday in the U.S. It ranks 177th out of 366 days, with an average of 11,163 births a day from 1994 to 2014, about the same as a typical day.
- Rank
- 177th of 366
- Births on an average day
- 11,163
- Zodiac sign
- ♉ Taurus
- Likely conceived around
- August 24
Where May 17 falls in the year
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Average daily U.S. births, 1994-2014
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Famous people born on May 17
- Robert L Nardelli(1948)
- Myles Brand(1942)
- Dennis Hopper(1936)
- Bill Paxton(1955)
- Sugar Ray Leonard(1956)
- Robin Pogrebin(1965)
- Nicholas Wade(1942)
- Archibald Cox(1912)
Source: CDC National Center for Health Statistics (1994–1999) and Social Security Administration (2000–2014), via FiveThirtyEight. About the data