How common is a May 22 birthday?

May 22 is an average birthday in the U.S. It ranks 125th out of 366 days, with an average of 11,330 births a day from 1994 to 2014, 1% more than a typical day.

Rank
125th of 366
Births on an average day
11,330
Zodiac sign
♊ Gemini
Likely conceived around
August 29

Where May 22 falls in the year

Least common Most common

Average daily U.S. births, 1994-2014

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Famous people born on May 22

  • Richard Wagner(1813)
  • T Boone Jr Pickens(1928)
  • Apolo Anton Ohno(1982)
  • Arthur Conan Doyle(1859)
  • Garry Wills(1934)
  • Theodore J Kaczynski(1942)
  • Laurence Olivier(1907)
  • Mary Cassatt(1844)

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