How common is a September 17 birthday?

September 17 is a quite common birthday in the U.S. It ranks 4th out of 366 days, with an average of 12,201 births a day from 1994 to 2014, 9% more than a typical day.

Rank
4th of 366
Births on an average day
12,201
Zodiac sign
♍ Virgo
Likely conceived around
December 25

Where September 17 falls in the year

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Average daily U.S. births, 1994-2014

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Famous people born on September 17

  • Charles E Grassley(1933)
  • Phil Jackson(1945)
  • David H Souter(1939)
  • Robert B Parker(1932)
  • Rasheed Wallace(1974)
  • Joseph Bastianich(1968)
  • John Franco(1960)
  • Anthony C Zinni(1943)

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