January Birthdays

January 18 Birthday Statistics

People born on January 18 have a Capricorn birthday, the Garnet birthstone, and the Carnation and snowdrop birth flower. This date is day 18 of a leap-year calendar and has a U.S. birthday rank of #221 out of 366 (2000–2014 births).

#221U.S. rank (2000–2014)CapricornZodiacGarnetBirthstone348Days left in leap year

January 18 Birthday Overview

A January 18 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 18?

January 18 ranks #221 of 366 by total births in this U.S. dataset. The file records 168,555 births on this month and day across 2000–2014, or 0.271% of its 62,187,024 recorded births.

Average when this date occurred
11,237.0 births across 15 occurrences
Lowest recorded count for this date
7,151 in 2009
Highest recorded count for this date
13,495 in 2007

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.