January 16 Birthday Statistics
People born on January 16 have a Capricorn birthday, the Garnet birthstone, and the Carnation and snowdrop birth flower. This date is day 16 of a leap-year calendar and has a U.S. birthday rank of #324 out of 366 (2000–2014 births).
January 16 Birthday Overview
A January 16 birthday falls in winter and carries the traditional symbols of January: Garnet as the birthstone and Carnation and snowdrop as the birth flower. The zodiac sign is Capricorn, a Earth sign represented by the Sea goat.
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 January 16?
January 16 ranks #324 of 366 by total births in this U.S. dataset. The file records 163,044 births on this month and day across 2000–2014, or 0.262% of its 62,187,024 recorded births.
- Average when this date occurred
- 10,869.6 births across 15 occurrences
- Lowest recorded count for this date
- 7,046 in 2011
- Highest recorded count for this date
- 13,183 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.