October 8 Birthday Statistics
People born on October 8 have a Libra birthday, the Opal and tourmaline birthstone, and the Marigold and cosmos birth flower. This date is day 282 of a leap-year calendar and has a U.S. birthday rank of #132 out of 366 (2000–2014 births).
October 8 Birthday Overview
A October 8 birthday falls in fall and carries the traditional symbols of October: Opal and tourmaline as the birthstone and Marigold and cosmos as the birth flower. The zodiac sign is Libra, a Air sign represented by the Scales.
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 October 8?
October 8 ranks #132 of 366 by total births in this U.S. dataset. The file records 172,969 births on this month and day across 2000–2014, or 0.278% of its 62,187,024 recorded births.
- Average when this date occurred
- 11,531.3 births across 15 occurrences
- Lowest recorded count for this date
- 7,940 in 2006
- Highest recorded count for this date
- 13,509 in 2003
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.