About 9,881 babies were born per day in the United States in 2025. That is an average calculated from the National Center for Health Statistics' provisional annual count of 3,606,400 births. It does not mean that many babies arrived on each date.
How we got the daily average
We divided 3,606,400 births by the 365 calendar days in 2025. The result rounds to about 9,881 births per day.
The 2025 count is provisional. NCHS used records processed by February 3, 2026, for its April 2026 report; a final count may differ.
The most recent final NCHS report covers 2024: 3,628,934 births across 366 days, or about 9,915 per day. Its denominator includes February 29.
Does a particular day have that many births?
The annual reports alone cannot answer that. Their averages spread each year's total evenly across its calendar, while actual date counts vary. Our weekday study shows such variation in older U.S. SSA records. Those records do not tell us which date had the most births in 2025.
If you want to know how unusual your birthday is, use the birthday checker. It ranks month-and-day birthdays from historical U.S. records covering 1994 through 2014, a different period and source mix. The methodology explains that data and the rankings.