August Birthdays

August 29 Birthday Statistics

People born on August 29 have a Virgo birthday, the Peridot, spinel, and sardonyx birthstone, and the Gladiolus and poppy birth flower. This date is day 242 of a leap-year calendar and has a U.S. birthday rank of #12 out of 366 (2000–2014 births).

#12U.S. rank (2000–2014)VirgoZodiacPeridot, spinel, and sardonyxBirthstone124Days left in leap year

August 29 Birthday Overview

A August 29 birthday falls in summer and carries the traditional symbols of August: Peridot, spinel, and sardonyx as the birthstone and Gladiolus and poppy as the birth flower. The zodiac sign is Virgo, a Earth sign represented by the Maiden.

The U.S. rank compares this date with all 366 calendar birthdays using recorded birth counts from 2000–2014. The counts and calculation method appear below.

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How Common Is August 29?

August 29 ranks #12 of 366 by total births in this U.S. dataset. The file records 185,073 births on this month and day across 2000–2014, or 0.298% of its 62,187,024 recorded births.

Average when this date occurred
12,338.2 births across 15 occurrences
Lowest recorded count for this date
7,496 in 2010
Highest recorded count for this date
14,688 in 2006

These are historical counts for the United States, not a worldwide ranking or a forecast. Weekdays, holidays and year-to-year changes can affect the counts; this comparison does not establish their causes.

Source: U.S. births, 2000–2014, from the Social Security Administration dataset published by FiveThirtyEight. BirthdayStatistics.com aggregates the recorded counts by month and day. Data licensed CC BY 4.0. Method and limitations.