"How Common Is Your Birthday?" - NYT, 12/19/06

The following table ranks every day of the year, from 1 to 366, in descending order of the number of babies born on that day from 1973 to 1999 in the United States.

Sept. 16, for instance, was the most common day for a baby to be born. Feb. 29 was the least popular, of course.

Christmas and New Year's Day were the next least common days.

362 1/2
363 12/24
364 1/1
365 12/25
366 2/29

Source: Amitabh Chandra, Harvard University

See NYT article "To-Do List: Wrap Gifts. Have Baby" in previous post.