August 5 Birthday Statistics
People born on August 5 have a Leo birthday, the Peridot, spinel, and sardonyx birthstone, and the Gladiolus and poppy birth flower. This date is day 218 of a leap-year calendar and has a U.S. birthday rank of #109 out of 366 (2000–2014 births).
August 5 Birthday Overview
A August 5 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 Leo, a Fire sign represented by the Lion.
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 5?
August 5 ranks #109 of 366 by total births in this U.S. dataset. The file records 174,444 births on this month and day across 2000–2014, or 0.281% of its 62,187,024 recorded births.
- Average when this date occurred
- 11,629.6 births across 15 occurrences
- Lowest recorded count for this date
- 7,693 in 2012
- Highest recorded count for this date
- 13,981 in 2008
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.