Celebrating your birthday today? You're in good company
Everyone likes to feel special on their birthday, so the following piece of information may come as a rude shock to the September 17 babies of Australia.
If you're celebrating the anniversary of your grand entry into the world today, congratulations (or comiserations?): you have the most common birthday in the country.
In 2017, the Australian Bureau of Statistics revealed the five most common birthdays from the previous decade.
There'll be plenty of birthday cake consumed around Australia today. iStock
September 17 topped the list with 8,862 Aussies sharing the birthday. So, how does it feel to be one of them?
September 17 baby Kristy-Lee tells 9Honey she had "no idea" the date was so common, but offered an explanation.
"Guess September babies' parents all had very loving Christmases!" she declares.
"I know I was made on a Christmas holiday, in a south coast place called Bendalong."
Indeed, counting back nine months from September lands you on December, and it goes without saying there are plenty of festivities throughout the final month of the year.
September's a big month or birthdays, and we have the festive season to thank. NBC
This is reflected in the ABS' top five most common birthdays, with September taking out a total of three dates on the list.
September 23 and September 24 come in hot at third and joint fourth place (tied with October 1) respectively.
So, no — you're not crazy for feeling as though you spend the entire month of September posting "happy birthday" on people's Facebook walls.
At the other end of the spectrum, December and January dominated the five least common birthdays in Australia.
Birthdays have looked a little different in 2020. iStock
Christmas and Boxing Day babies have every right to feel unique, sitting at second and third on the list respectively with 4,388 and 4,743 people.
Those dates are followed by January 1 and January 26, which are shared by 6,017 and 6,136 Aussies.
Noticing a pattern here? The ABS speculated that doctors were more likely to schedule births for dates that didn't fall on public holidays.
Unsurprisingly, the 'least common birthday' list has a runaway winner in February 29, with just 2,327 people sharing a Leap Day birthday.
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