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What Are the Most Common Birthdays?

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Technology, Natural Sciences, Science

4.01.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

It's not your imagination: Some seasons and dates have more birthdays than others. Learn the most and least popular birthdates (and how they're changing) in this episode of BrainStuff, based on this article: https://people.howstuffworks.com/culture-traditions/genealogy/most-popular-birthdays.htm

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0:00.0

Hey everybody, I'm Coach Bill Courtney from the Oscar-winning documentary, Undefeated.

0:04.7

I believe that our country's problems can never be solved by a bunch of fancy people

0:09.0

and nice suits talking big words that nobody ever uses on CNN and Fox, but rather bang

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Army of Normal Folks. Us, just you and me saying, hey man, I can help.

0:19.6

Our podcast and Army of Normal Folks is building up this army that I think can change this country,

0:25.4

and I hope you'll join us wherever you listen to podcasts.

0:30.4

Deep in the mountains of Greece, the country's most-wanted man has been on the run for over a decade.

0:37.4

He's a bank robber. We hear Abarazha shots.

0:40.2

A kidnapper, but to many Greeks, he's a hero. His name is Vasili Spaliokostas,

0:46.4

and we're on the trail of the man behind the men, a modern-day Robin Hood who steals from the

0:51.2

rich and gives to the poor. A Miles Gray. Listen to the Good Deaf on the iHeart Radio app Apple

0:57.3

Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to Brain Stuff, a production of iHeart

1:04.9

Radio. Hey, Brain Stuff, Lauren Vogelbaum here. It may seem as if you're buying a lot more

1:13.6

birthday gifts at certain times of the year, but why is this? Is it your imagination,

1:19.0

or are there really more babies born in specific months or upon specific days?

1:24.8

If you look at births in the United States from the 20-year period between 1994 and 2014,

1:32.0

a really clear pattern emerges. There were an average of over 6,000 to over 12,000 babies born

1:39.6

on any given calendar day, but nine out of the most ten common birthdays fell in September,

1:46.4

with the one outlier in July. A September 9 was the most common birthday during that time,

1:53.5

with an average of 12,301 births on that day every year. The rest of the dates range from

2:00.2

September 10th through the 20th, with September 11th and the 13th conspicuously missing.

2:07.1

The July date is July 7th, but okay, why? The short answer is that nobody knows for sure,

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