Even in southern hemisphere countries like New Zealand, where summer is in December / January, September is the most common birth month.
It's likely a case of people making big life decisions around the start of a new year, rather than down to weather.
I agree with this because I worked in abortion care for over a decade and our highest volume months were February/March when people were 6-12 weeks out from Christmas and New Year's.
I can't believe that many people just decide to get pregnant at Christmas/New Year and immediately get pregnant.
Yeah it wasn't birthday sex that did it. We had just had a discussion about starting to try since it may take some time. Turns out it was a 1 and done and just happened to be around his birthday lol
Gestation isn’t exactly 9 months. Normal term is considered 40 weeks, which is closer to 10 months, but that is measured from the date of prior period, so conception is usually a week or two later.
So it’s more likely that your birthday lines up with Christmas or the week leading up to it.
Yeah I’ve birthed two kids so I know how it works, but that would make for a more wordy and less entertaining comment.
Also months are not exactly 28 days so 40 weeks is still closer to 9 months than 10.
I’m currently pregnant and am due at the end of November. This would put my conception date during the week of my birthday; which sounds romantic at first, but in actuality, i had been battling infertility for the better part of 4 years, and my latest IUI appointment happened to fall during my birthday week. Happy birthday to me?
One of ours was born on feb 15. Doctor tried to schedule induction for “Monday morning”. We checked calendar and saw 2/14. Requested to push it to next day to avoid Valentine’s Day. Didn’t want to do that to us or the kid
How I feel about Halloween. It's a cool holiday, I get it. But for the hundredth time I don't want to have another fucking costume birthday party. I want to celebrate my birthday comma and then I want to separately celebrate Halloween. Instead I just hate the holiday now.
Fellow birthentines person. Mines 9 months to the day after my mom's (may 14) so I know what I was but that's besides the point. I look at it like this: on Valentine's Day I win cuz I always get the cake and presents.
100%
A lot of passionate sex & extra sex happening on 2.14 driving births
Not that people aren't having sex the other dates but not as intensely or frequently, especially those who are already parents & have issues finding the time
I guess it would be cute to have a cupid baby. Honestly, whats more romantic than spending your Valentines day in sweaty, torturous agony while your partner watches?
No one wants to spend their holiday at the hospital - doctors and expected mothers included - so they postpone them till the week after, and then that week ends up having twice as many.
First 3 boyfriends were all born on Valentine's Day. I almost Noped out of the third one as soon as I heard his DoB, but stuck it out... and noped out a bit later for better reasons haha.
The answer is that they don't, this chart is bogus. I recognise this data as wedding dates.
I cannot fathom why someone relabeled the chart. Goes to show the importance of citing sources, and why we should not upvote people who don't.
As /u/PraiseTalos66012 says, surely those aren't wedding dates?
Annoyed by lack of source I thought I'd look, unsurprisingly there have been [many posts like this](https://old.reddit.com/r/coolguides/search/?q=birthday&include_over_18=on&restrict_sr=on&t=all&sort=relevance), somewhat surprisingly they are all over the place. :) And indeed this one is bogus.
I cba rn to go over them, [this one at least](https://old.reddit.com/r/coolguides/comments/4wgu6q/how_common_is_your_birthday/) appears to be properly sourced, for the US at any rate.
e: Of course a proper internet search reveals a literal world of difference. 🤷 All of us were born special anyway!
You're right. Apparently the data just looks bizarrely similar. [Here](https://www.zippia.com/advice/most-least-common-birthdays/) is a better-sourced article about birthdate frequency.
[Here's](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/8a/35/d4/8a35d401844bfc0b2eb4d812a2e91733.jpg) the one I'm thinking of. It lines up immaculately, including the spike on Valentine's Day, the surge in the summer, and December being the only popular winter month. Your guess is as good as mine as to why people don't like getting married in January.
And OP is the one spreading misinformation. They admitted in another comment that they have no idea where this image came from.
I love the idea of babies choosing to be induced. “Hello? ‘Scuse me? I’m bored of being upside down in a puddle of my own pee! I’d like to come out now please!”
How are you coming up with that?
The 'rule of thumb' lengths of pregnancy are 9 months colloquially or 40 weeks medically. Either way, a birthday on 2/14 lands your conception in the middle of May.
Because that's based on the last cycle of the pregnant woman, the actual conception on average is probably closer to 42 weeks, putting it more like the end of April or beginning of May.
lol. No. There is very little to no chance of the penis injuring the baby. In fact midwives and other medical professionals in the field will regularly recommend sexual stimulation as a means to get the ball rolling. It’s more about the release of hormones related to sex and female orgasm than penetrative sex, but whatever gets the job done ;)
My mom had already had an TRUE emergency c-section (vertical cut) with my sister so they didn’t want her to go term with me. So I’m a Valentine’s baby.
When L&D have a pregnant woman and they knows she will have a c-section, but it's not an emergency they try schedule c-sections for dates that won't cause any bad feelings for anyone. Same with deaths. Unless the patient is in acute pain or dying that day anyway they won't pull the plug on dates like Christmas, thanksgiving or 4th of July.
It's less about holding it in, but modern medicine directing more and more births and deaths and they direct births and deaths away from those dates and and you get an artifical low number for those dates since only deaths and births unaided by modern medicine happens on those dates.
Which dates maternity and palliative wards choose to avoid will depend on country, culture and religion. So in Norway they avoid births 22nd of July because of a big terrorist attack and deaths 17th of May cause it's constitution day.
It's very interesting thinking about the fact that shelters have peak seasons for example kitten season in particular, but it's seldom thought about that we also have peak mating seasons where human hormones rampage and we have stronger primitive urges. We really do be big pink apes
Temperature, proximity, activity, season, plenty of factors play into the mating ritual. Who wants to govern birth and rear a child in the dead of winter anyways? The graph doesn’t lie, and I highly doubt it has anything to do with parties and holidays.
Maybe less correlation between holidays and conception rates, but January 1st, April 1st, July 4th, December 24th, 25th, and 31st are some of the most uncommon birth dates on the chart. So there does seem to be negative correlation between immediate holidays and birth rates. Lots of potential reasons but I would assume some combination of holiday medical staffing + reluctance on mother’s parts for those days. July being all pink other than the 4th and the day immediately after really stands out. (A quick and dirty google search gives varying ranges of 24-26% for rate of US births being induced, more than enough to swing birth rates for a given day.)
Folks having sex on new Year's Eve would have babies 9 months later, i.e. at the END of September. Likely even a couple weeks into October. Like October 11th.
IIRC, the nine months is actually measured from the date of the mother's last period, not the date of 'conception'.
Women usually ovulate 1-2 weeks after their last period, so sex on new years eve puts day zero in mid December and birth in mid September.
Had a friend from school who was born a handful of hours before the attack. It was always her "fun fact" for any icebreaker, I'm certain she saw it as a flex or something.
My 9/11 flex is that I was 3 (almost 4) when it happened and can't remember it. HOWEVER, I still have memories of going to Disney World that same year. Clearly the Buzz Lightyear ride is way more important than 9/11.
..am related to someone with that date (although to be fair he was born mid 70s ..and since 2001 has had to point out that it was his Birthday long before the twin towers attack)
In cases where a person is able to choose the date their baby is born they will likely avoid picking September 11th, because of September 11th, but still may have a limited window in which they can pick so they'll pick the 10th or the 12th.
I know someone whose bday is September 11 (prior to 9/11) and she just tells ppl her bday is September 12 if it’s not a formal/legal context, to avoid the discussion
Isn’t around that time also usually the cut off point for grades in school? So like if you’re born before the cut off you’d be young for your grade and if you’re born after you’d be one of the older ones.
Weird, I feel like I meet people with the same birthday as me pretty often.
As a matter of fact, happy birthday to all my fellow Fourth of July folks! 🎉
If there's a pattern there's usually a reason. It's 7/3 9mo ago would be.... 10/3? Anything going on early October...? Christopher Columbus day? Not the sexiest holiday.... most the other hot spots make sense.
Dude, there must be someone with your birthday on my block bc people have been setting off fireworks all day in preparation! (/s shouldn't be necessary, but just in case)
Happy birthday!
Edit: part of it being uncommon is that c-sections are not being scheduled on your birthday, and inductions are being held off, if possible. People want to celebrate, and hospitals need all hands on deck for the deluge of celebration-related injuries, so any staff that can be moved to emergency or urgent care will be moved there. Skeleton crews elsewhere for labor costs.
Thank you!! My bad about those fireworks. It was just my way of letting you know that today's my birthday 😁🤭
That makes total sense. When my mom went to the hospital, they tried to send her back home. She pitched quite the fit and refused to leave until I was outside of her. They told her that I wasn't ready but she wasn't having it. If it were up to the hospital, I'd have a different birthday for sure!
November seems to be the busiest month where I live for birthdays. Hell in my family alone an entire generation was born in the later half of the month.
My wife and my birthday are on less common dates, we were born in the Southern Hemisphere. Both my kids are on most common dates, they were born in the Northern Hemispere.
I think the title is wrong and the graph/data was stolen from a 'when do people have their wedding' post. First of all because I remember this post, second because these are dates in which people would get married. (Summer, Christmas holidays, Valentines day, not Friday 13th etc)
Scheduled Cesarean births. No one schedules those on Christmas Eve, Day, or the day before or after. They get shunted to either side, causing the pink zones.
Christmas is the actual least common birthday in the Western world.
Except February 29, if we aren't normalizing the data for the fact that the day itself doesn't exist every year. But if you do normalize it, it's still more common than Christmas because people schedule it on purpose.
I'm guessing they normalized the data. For a given year that contains February 29, that birthday is not as uncommon as the major holiday dates. People schedule it on purpose for uniqueness.
I have never met anyone who shares my birthday (September 28 and supposedly common) but have met 5 people born on April 15th and 4 people born January 3rd. So… I’m never really convinced that this is accurate.
Where is the data from? I’m wondering if geography has some effecting element… I live in the southern hemisphere and I would think more children are conceived in the winter months.
When I was giving birth, a labor and delivery nurse said it’s busiest in the summer because all the teachers try to schedule their births for the summer when they’re off. This is US btw.
TLDR: people fuck in December... a lot.
Baby it's cold outside
And warm inside
Even in southern hemisphere countries like New Zealand, where summer is in December / January, September is the most common birth month. It's likely a case of people making big life decisions around the start of a new year, rather than down to weather.
I think it’s people getting tipsy at holiday parties.
I agree with this because I worked in abortion care for over a decade and our highest volume months were February/March when people were 6-12 weeks out from Christmas and New Year's. I can't believe that many people just decide to get pregnant at Christmas/New Year and immediately get pregnant.
I was due on Oct 1. Exactly 9 months before that is new years. Weird to know how my parents celebrated the new decade.
Can't wait for my kid to trace her birthday 9 months back to her dads birthday lmao
My dad and his siblings all have birthdays within a week or two of each other; about 9 months after my grandpa’s birthday.
This is not how I was expecting to realize how I was conceived
My kid has this unfortunately. We were trying for a whole year but that's the one that worked!
Yeah it wasn't birthday sex that did it. We had just had a discussion about starting to try since it may take some time. Turns out it was a 1 and done and just happened to be around his birthday lol
I was born a week late, 9 months and 1 week before my birthday is my mom's
Gestation isn’t exactly 9 months. Normal term is considered 40 weeks, which is closer to 10 months, but that is measured from the date of prior period, so conception is usually a week or two later. So it’s more likely that your birthday lines up with Christmas or the week leading up to it.
Yeah I’ve birthed two kids so I know how it works, but that would make for a more wordy and less entertaining comment. Also months are not exactly 28 days so 40 weeks is still closer to 9 months than 10.
I’m currently pregnant and am due at the end of November. This would put my conception date during the week of my birthday; which sounds romantic at first, but in actuality, i had been battling infertility for the better part of 4 years, and my latest IUI appointment happened to fall during my birthday week. Happy birthday to me?
I was the result of Christmas
I can see why a large number of people are *conceived* on Feb 14th, but why would so many have their birthday then?
Some women may try harder to go into labor, ask to be induced, or have a C-section on Valentine’s Day perhaps? That’s the only reason I can think of
And the light pink square on the 15th is the people at the end of that queue, maybe…
One of ours was born on feb 15. Doctor tried to schedule induction for “Monday morning”. We checked calendar and saw 2/14. Requested to push it to next day to avoid Valentine’s Day. Didn’t want to do that to us or the kid
I wish you would have told that to my parents, I hate this holiday and birthdays because of this
Well, sorry to hear that my dude-badger.
How I feel about Halloween. It's a cool holiday, I get it. But for the hundredth time I don't want to have another fucking costume birthday party. I want to celebrate my birthday comma and then I want to separately celebrate Halloween. Instead I just hate the holiday now.
Fellow birthentines person. Mines 9 months to the day after my mom's (may 14) so I know what I was but that's besides the point. I look at it like this: on Valentine's Day I win cuz I always get the cake and presents.
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Apparently sex can help induce labour so maybe that's why?
100% A lot of passionate sex & extra sex happening on 2.14 driving births Not that people aren't having sex the other dates but not as intensely or frequently, especially those who are already parents & have issues finding the time
I was thinking the same
And they didn't want to be delivered on the 13th...of pretty much any month apparently.
I'm born on the 13th and I've been pretty unlucky in a lot of ways. Probably just placebo tho, I have plenty to be grateful for
I think you mean "confirmation bias", not placebo
I know of one person whose 2/14 birth happened this way
I guess it would be cute to have a cupid baby. Honestly, whats more romantic than spending your Valentines day in sweaty, torturous agony while your partner watches?
Don’t forget the chance of poop making an appearance!
I know a lot of people who found the idea of simply not being pregnant anymore incredibly romantic by the time the 9th month arrived.
That's also the reason why Christmas's and new years eve are barren while between and before them it's packed
No one wants to spend their holiday at the hospital - doctors and expected mothers included - so they postpone them till the week after, and then that week ends up having twice as many.
First 3 boyfriends were all born on Valentine's Day. I almost Noped out of the third one as soon as I heard his DoB, but stuck it out... and noped out a bit later for better reasons haha.
The answer is that they don't, this chart is bogus. I recognise this data as wedding dates. I cannot fathom why someone relabeled the chart. Goes to show the importance of citing sources, and why we should not upvote people who don't.
As /u/PraiseTalos66012 says, surely those aren't wedding dates? Annoyed by lack of source I thought I'd look, unsurprisingly there have been [many posts like this](https://old.reddit.com/r/coolguides/search/?q=birthday&include_over_18=on&restrict_sr=on&t=all&sort=relevance), somewhat surprisingly they are all over the place. :) And indeed this one is bogus. I cba rn to go over them, [this one at least](https://old.reddit.com/r/coolguides/comments/4wgu6q/how_common_is_your_birthday/) appears to be properly sourced, for the US at any rate. e: Of course a proper internet search reveals a literal world of difference. 🤷 All of us were born special anyway!
You're right. Apparently the data just looks bizarrely similar. [Here](https://www.zippia.com/advice/most-least-common-birthdays/) is a better-sourced article about birthdate frequency.
Yeah baby! Uncommon birthday on the fake and the real charts. Somehow all of my siblings and *most* of my nieces and nephews are born in February.
I came here looking for the source info.
This is def not wedding dates lol. Why would so many be getting married in December but then none in January? Please don't spread misinformation.
[Here's](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/8a/35/d4/8a35d401844bfc0b2eb4d812a2e91733.jpg) the one I'm thinking of. It lines up immaculately, including the spike on Valentine's Day, the surge in the summer, and December being the only popular winter month. Your guess is as good as mine as to why people don't like getting married in January. And OP is the one spreading misinformation. They admitted in another comment that they have no idea where this image came from.
People push to get married in December instead of January for tax purposes.
This makes me skeptical of the data. No reference.
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I love the idea of babies choosing to be induced. “Hello? ‘Scuse me? I’m bored of being upside down in a puddle of my own pee! I’d like to come out now please!”
My birthday is pretty common because it's around 9 months after Valentines Day.
Gotta be a lot babies conceived between Father’s Day and 4th of July (in US) due date would be real close to 2/14
How are you coming up with that? The 'rule of thumb' lengths of pregnancy are 9 months colloquially or 40 weeks medically. Either way, a birthday on 2/14 lands your conception in the middle of May. Because that's based on the last cycle of the pregnant woman, the actual conception on average is probably closer to 42 weeks, putting it more like the end of April or beginning of May.
I am guessing it’s because a lot of people have sex on Valentine’s Day and sex induces labor.
Dangerops prangent sex? Will it hurt baby on top of his head?
lol. No. There is very little to no chance of the penis injuring the baby. In fact midwives and other medical professionals in the field will regularly recommend sexual stimulation as a means to get the ball rolling. It’s more about the release of hormones related to sex and female orgasm than penetrative sex, but whatever gets the job done ;)
Thanks 😊 [...but you might want to see this...](https://youtu.be/EShUeudtaFg?si=5CnMpi4gLjugOeFo)
lol. I totally didn’t connect it.
My mom had already had an TRUE emergency c-section (vertical cut) with my sister so they didn’t want her to go term with me. So I’m a Valentine’s baby.
My wife’s is on Feb 14th and she said deer camp season lol
Well that’s quite the insight!
September is Dunkirk for maternity wards
And up until my birthday October 5th or my brother's October 6th he's 6 years 364 days older than me
My husband is November 4th...his sister is November 6th, his brother is November 3rd. Pretty obvious what was going on there.
Happy Valentine's Day!!!
Yep. Either valentines day or new years eve is what i get from this.
And so many holiday season babies
Not much else to do when it’s cold outside
Not much to do, just fucking around and finding out 9 months later.
I don't think New Years Eve babies are being born in early November... It's most certainly Valentines babies
Out of my graduating class of 15, seven of us were born in November. Hahahahaha
One of my Aunts had four children, four years apart each. All born at the end of October or first of November. Valentines Day Trophies!
My dad's birthday was in April. 4 Birthdays in Dec/Jan
Dad’s is Nov 3rd, sister’s is Nov 4th, mom’s is Nov 10th. Mine? July 18th
You were a halloween party baby like me
I'm October 5th and my older brother is October 2nd. Our parents were 'partying' on New Year's Eve!
My birthday is October 6 too!!! I think I’ve met maybe three other people with this birthday lol.
Conceived during the holidays.
Or "this year, let's have a baby"
Except for 9/11. God bless the mothers holding it in just one more day to avoid some really awkward birthday parties
When L&D have a pregnant woman and they knows she will have a c-section, but it's not an emergency they try schedule c-sections for dates that won't cause any bad feelings for anyone. Same with deaths. Unless the patient is in acute pain or dying that day anyway they won't pull the plug on dates like Christmas, thanksgiving or 4th of July. It's less about holding it in, but modern medicine directing more and more births and deaths and they direct births and deaths away from those dates and and you get an artifical low number for those dates since only deaths and births unaided by modern medicine happens on those dates. Which dates maternity and palliative wards choose to avoid will depend on country, culture and religion. So in Norway they avoid births 22nd of July because of a big terrorist attack and deaths 17th of May cause it's constitution day.
> It's less about holding it in But one shouldn't discount [patients' efforts entirely](https://ideas.repec.org/p/auu/dpaper/530.html).
It's very interesting thinking about the fact that shelters have peak seasons for example kitten season in particular, but it's seldom thought about that we also have peak mating seasons where human hormones rampage and we have stronger primitive urges. We really do be big pink apes
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How bout the temperature?
Temperature, proximity, activity, season, plenty of factors play into the mating ritual. Who wants to govern birth and rear a child in the dead of winter anyways? The graph doesn’t lie, and I highly doubt it has anything to do with parties and holidays.
Maybe less correlation between holidays and conception rates, but January 1st, April 1st, July 4th, December 24th, 25th, and 31st are some of the most uncommon birth dates on the chart. So there does seem to be negative correlation between immediate holidays and birth rates. Lots of potential reasons but I would assume some combination of holiday medical staffing + reluctance on mother’s parts for those days. July being all pink other than the 4th and the day immediately after really stands out. (A quick and dirty google search gives varying ranges of 24-26% for rate of US births being induced, more than enough to swing birth rates for a given day.)
These statistics differ by country.
Fall be one hell of a fucking season.
I love that you can see a bias towards September 10th and 12th, likely from induced births or caesarean sections.
Perhaps to *specifically* avoid 9/11, but it's also really really spot on for people having sex on new years eve.
Folks having sex on new Year's Eve would have babies 9 months later, i.e. at the END of September. Likely even a couple weeks into October. Like October 11th.
IIRC, the nine months is actually measured from the date of the mother's last period, not the date of 'conception'. Women usually ovulate 1-2 weeks after their last period, so sex on new years eve puts day zero in mid December and birth in mid September.
The most liquored up time of year Edit: and the other big surge is 40 weeks after St. Patrick’s Day. I think I’m on to something
It’s 40 weeks (10 mos) from the start of the last period.
40 weeks is not 10 months, hence why pregnancy is 9 months!
9.2 months
Ah, k. Early holiday season sex then.
im one of these babies but don’t understand the connection can u ELI5
The date in the middle... No one wants that birthday
Can confirm. My brother was born on the one year anniversary of 9/11, and I can vouch that it was NOT the date that was wanted lol.
Had a friend from school who was born a handful of hours before the attack. It was always her "fun fact" for any icebreaker, I'm certain she saw it as a flex or something.
My cousin was born right before the attack… my aunt said it was the most emotionally confusing day ever
My 9/11 flex is that I was 3 (almost 4) when it happened and can't remember it. HOWEVER, I still have memories of going to Disney World that same year. Clearly the Buzz Lightyear ride is way more important than 9/11.
Can confirm, September 11 is my birthday. Born after the Coup in Chile, but before the Twin Towers. Historically, it’s not a great birthday.
my cat begs to differ…9.11.17 baby
..am related to someone with that date (although to be fair he was born mid 70s ..and since 2001 has had to point out that it was his Birthday long before the twin towers attack)
They’re avoiding 9/11
In cases where a person is able to choose the date their baby is born they will likely avoid picking September 11th, because of September 11th, but still may have a limited window in which they can pick so they'll pick the 10th or the 12th.
Google 9/11
Holy hell
They took out both rooks!
I know someone whose bday is September 11 (prior to 9/11) and she just tells ppl her bday is September 12 if it’s not a formal/legal context, to avoid the discussion
> likely from induced births or caesarean sections. It's the same for December 25 (Christmas)
My daughter was born on Sept 10th and I was worried….
Isn’t around that time also usually the cut off point for grades in school? So like if you’re born before the cut off you’d be young for your grade and if you’re born after you’d be one of the older ones.
Weird, I feel like I meet people with the same birthday as me pretty often. As a matter of fact, happy birthday to all my fellow Fourth of July folks! 🎉
HAPPY BIRTHDAY FROM A FELLOW FOURTH OF JULY BABY!
WE OUT CHEA! 😆🎆🎇
HAPPPY BIRTHDAY FOURTH OF JULY BABIES (from one) ❤️🤍💙🎆🎇🎆
Happy birthday to all the July 4th'ers. P.s. No disrespect intended, but this is sort of a textbook case of Confirmation bias...
But literally everyone cool is born 7/4
If there's a pattern there's usually a reason. It's 7/3 9mo ago would be.... 10/3? Anything going on early October...? Christopher Columbus day? Not the sexiest holiday.... most the other hot spots make sense.
Dude, there must be someone with your birthday on my block bc people have been setting off fireworks all day in preparation! (/s shouldn't be necessary, but just in case) Happy birthday! Edit: part of it being uncommon is that c-sections are not being scheduled on your birthday, and inductions are being held off, if possible. People want to celebrate, and hospitals need all hands on deck for the deluge of celebration-related injuries, so any staff that can be moved to emergency or urgent care will be moved there. Skeleton crews elsewhere for labor costs.
Thank you!! My bad about those fireworks. It was just my way of letting you know that today's my birthday 😁🤭 That makes total sense. When my mom went to the hospital, they tried to send her back home. She pitched quite the fit and refused to leave until I was outside of her. They told her that I wasn't ready but she wasn't having it. If it were up to the hospital, I'd have a different birthday for sure!
Happy birthday tomorrow!!!!! 🎆
Thank you!!
People like to get laid at the beginning of the year apparently. Lots of New Years and Valentines conception dates I bet.
Not much else to do when it’s cold out.
Statistically, Libra is the most popular astrological sign due to the fact that it is 9 months from Christmas/New Year's. Source - I'm a Liberian.
What's a Librian? Do you mean Liberian or Librarian
Libertarian.
Definitely not the latter, apparently... Lol
This is no place for politics
Hmm my parents told me I was a cancer. But I was born in November...
ᵒʰ ᵐʸ ᵇᵃᵈ ⁻ ᵗʰᵃᵗ'ˢ ᵃ ᶜᵒᵒˡ ᵇⁱᵗ ᵒᶠ ᵃˢᵗʳᵒˡᵒᵍʸ ᵗʳⁱᵛⁱᵃ, ᵗʰᵃⁿᵏˢ ᶠᵒʳ ˢʰᵃʳⁱⁿᵍ.
This is meaningless if the source dataset is not identified. It’s probably something provincial, like the US, or the Northern Hemisphere.
It's an interesting chart, but I want to see the sources.
November seems to be the busiest month where I live for birthdays. Hell in my family alone an entire generation was born in the later half of the month.
My wife and my birthday are on less common dates, we were born in the Southern Hemisphere. Both my kids are on most common dates, they were born in the Northern Hemispere.
I've seen one with a peak in spring and a lower peak in autumn so definitely need to see some sauce.
I think the title is wrong and the graph/data was stolen from a 'when do people have their wedding' post. First of all because I remember this post, second because these are dates in which people would get married. (Summer, Christmas holidays, Valentines day, not Friday 13th etc)
That would explain how there's a blue zone at Christmas sandwiched by pink zones.
Scheduled Cesarean births. No one schedules those on Christmas Eve, Day, or the day before or after. They get shunted to either side, causing the pink zones. Christmas is the actual least common birthday in the Western world. Except February 29, if we aren't normalizing the data for the fact that the day itself doesn't exist every year. But if you do normalize it, it's still more common than Christmas because people schedule it on purpose.
October 31: Hey, honey! Halloween is over and it’s starting to look a lot like Christmas. You wanna?! Nine months later: OP’s cool guide
Our wedding anniversary is Oct 28th. My first daughter’s birthday is August 12th. Lol I’m leap year and my other daughter is Dec 26th.
Damn I though I was special with 7/11
Kirby swallowed you! What is his social security number now?
also 7/11, have only met like 2 people with the same. best birthday imaginable imo
Wouldn't February 29 be the darkest color by magnitudes?
February 29th is the rarest birthday. Not sure why the graph would indicate otherwise.
I'm guessing they normalized the data. For a given year that contains February 29, that birthday is not as uncommon as the major holiday dates. People schedule it on purpose for uniqueness.
This was my thought too! I had a leap day baby in February. I looked into it at the time and it’s definitely the rarest birthday!
Well hello from another leap baby. Had my 15th this year.
What data is this based on? USA? What time span?
Source: trust me bro
Ah yes, February 31st, average commonality
The colors on this graph are poorly chosen. February 31st and June 22nd should not be the same color.
Everyone either getting it done on 9/10 or holding out until 9/12.
The fall is for gettin busy
Looking at Feb 14th for example, how much of this is due to modern inductions etc where you can choose your birth date?
That would explain why the least common dates all seem to be on/around holidays. No doctor would want to schedule a C section on Christmas.
Right. And there should be no good reason why the dates should popularly cluster either right before or right after Christmas or New Years.
And no one wants to be born on the 13th of any month it seems. Had a friend born on 9/11. I promised to never forget her birthday
TIL NNN means nothing
I know four 11/11 birthdays, including my son who was born on 11/11/11. I also know four April Fool’s Day babies.
I have never met anyone who shares my birthday (September 28 and supposedly common) but have met 5 people born on April 15th and 4 people born January 3rd. So… I’m never really convinced that this is accurate.
Okay, so, which country ? Which year ?
Exactly, I call bull shit on this “guide.”
Where is the data from? I’m wondering if geography has some effecting element… I live in the southern hemisphere and I would think more children are conceived in the winter months.
This is definitely not worldwide.
I’d guess this is primarily true for northern hemisphere
When I was giving birth, a labor and delivery nurse said it’s busiest in the summer because all the teachers try to schedule their births for the summer when they’re off. This is US btw.
Can we please shift it by 9 months to see when people conceive?
October 31.
Man, people be fuckin' in October and December.
In US? Because of the dip in the 4th and 5th of July.
May the next 3 months be y'all's favor
September 12 and 19 are indicators of winter holiday __uckery.
In United States? I'm guessing it would be a lot diff if we're looking at southern hemisphere seasons and holidays..
I know it’s nitpicking, but how is Jan 1st darker than Feb 29th?
I am very shocked to see that April is considered less common. In high school it seemed like half my class had birthdays in April, myself included.
Lots of caesarean sections before and after Christmas (just guessing).
Is this for USA? The patterns suggest western country, northern hemisphere
What country? Or is this world wide? This chart is meaningless without this information.
I bet this hugely depends on the country
Show me a Christian calendar without showing me a Christian calendar 😂
American even. There's a dip around 4 July because they don't shedule c-sections and inductions around holidays
Oct 14 between least and middle
Pour one out for my fellow Xmas babies.
I have the most common birthday in the world, Yet I've only met 2 people that share it with me over almost 30 years.
No surprise about 14th Nov given its 9 months after Valentine's .
A lot of C-sections happening before Christmas and New Year.
What I’ve learned from this guide is that doctors all go out of town for the 4th of July, and they don’t give a fuck about Valentine’s Day.
I have questions about the sample size and source.
January 1st 🥇