May 8 Birthday Statistics
People born on May 8 have a Taurus birthday, the Emerald birthstone, and the Lily of the valley and hawthorn birth flower. This date is day 129 of a leap-year calendar and has a U.S. birthday rank of #218 out of 366 (2000–2014 births).
May 8 Birthday Overview
A May 8 birthday falls in spring and carries the traditional symbols of May: Emerald as the birthstone and Lily of the valley and hawthorn as the birth flower. The zodiac sign is Taurus, a Earth sign represented by the Bull.
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 May 8?
May 8 ranks #218 of 366 by total births in this U.S. dataset. The file records 168,607 births on this month and day across 2000–2014, or 0.271% of its 62,187,024 recorded births.
- Average when this date occurred
- 11,240.5 births across 15 occurrences
- Lowest recorded count for this date
- 6,972 in 2011
- Highest recorded count for this date
- 13,387 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.