February 28 Birthday Statistics
People born on February 28 have a Pisces birthday, the Amethyst birthstone, and the Violet, iris, and primrose birth flower. This date is day 59 of a leap-year calendar and has a U.S. birthday rank of #168 out of 366 (2000–2014 births).
February 28 Birthday Overview
A February 28 birthday falls in winter and carries the traditional symbols of February: Amethyst as the birthstone and Violet, iris, and primrose as the birth flower. The zodiac sign is Pisces, a Water sign represented by the Fish.
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 February 28?
February 28 ranks #168 of 366 by total births in this U.S. dataset. The file records 170,927 births on this month and day across 2000–2014, or 0.275% of its 62,187,024 recorded births.
- Average when this date occurred
- 11,395.1 births across 15 occurrences
- Lowest recorded count for this date
- 6,895 in 2010
- Highest recorded count for this date
- 13,674 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.