How common is a May 5 birthday?
May 5 is an average birthday in the U.S. It ranks 194th out of 366 days, with an average of 11,108 births a day from 1994 to 2014, 1% fewer than a typical day.
- Rank
- 194th of 366
- Births on an average day
- 11,108
- Zodiac sign
- ♉ Taurus
- Likely conceived around
- August 12
Where May 5 falls in the year
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Average daily U.S. births, 1994-2014
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Famous people born on May 5
- Brian Williams(1959)
- Dieter Zetsche(1953)
- Richard Bernstein(1944)
- Karl Marx(1818)
- Linda Fairstein(1947)
- Roger Rees(1944)
- Hideki Irabu(1969)
- Zigmund Palffy(1972)
Source: CDC National Center for Health Statistics (1994–1999) and Social Security Administration (2000–2014), via FiveThirtyEight. About the data