Birthdays/October
October 17
237,214 people born in the US between 1994 and 2014 have this birthday — one in 360 of them.
- Rank of 366
- #123the middle of the pack
- Births a year
- 11,2961994–2014
- Against an average day
- +1.4%the average day of its own year
- Born 1994–2014
- 237,214one in 360
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October 17
United States · rank 123/366 · 11,296 births per year (average) · +1.4% versus the average date
CDC/NCHS + SSA · FiveThirtyEight (CC BY 4.0) · 1994–2014
The date in numbers
Over the 21 years from 1994 to 2014, October 17 averages 11,296 births a year, which places it 123rd of the 366 dates of the year.
Against the average day of its own year — the measure that takes the growth of the population out — the date runs +1.4%. That puts it within the ordinary run of the year.
Where a date falls in the week moves the count more than the date itself does: across 1994–2014 the five weekdays average +10.9% against an average day and Saturday and Sunday −27.1%. This date fell on a weekday in 16 of its 21 years and on a weekend in 5, averaging +11.2% and −29.8%. These are counts of births that were registered; the page does not say why they fall this way.
October 17 by the weekday it fell on
In 21 years a date works its way round the week. Each row is the average of the years this one landed on that weekday — a handful of years each, so read the shape, not the decimal.
| Weekday | Births on such a day | Against an average day | Days counted | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monday | 11,720 | +5.4% | 3 years | |
| Tuesday | 13,028 | +16.0% | 3 years | |
| Wednesday | 12,944 | +14.3% | 3 years | |
| Thursday | 12,069 | +11.3% | 3 years | |
| Friday | 12,225 | +9.6% | 4 years | |
| Saturday | 8,315 | −25.2% | 2 years | |
| Sunday | 7,468 | −32.9% | 3 years |
The days either side
- 159October 1411,149 · +0.3%
- 131October 1511,261 · +1.2%
- 182October 1611,115 · −0.2%
- 123October 1711,296 · +1.4%
- 167October 1811,149 · +0.2%
- 297October 1910,850 · −2.7%
- 197October 2011,065 · −0.7%
Names given to the people born on October 17
Everyone counted on this page was born between 1994 and 2014. The most given names of 1994 were Jessica and Michael; of 2014, Emma and Noah. Every year in between has its own list.
Years in this data
Where the numbers come from. Births by exact date, 1994–2014: 1994–2003 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics (National Vital Statistics System); 2004–2014 from the Social Security Administration. Both files are works of the US government and in the public domain. They are taken from FiveThirtyEight's data repository, which republishes them under CC BY 4.0 — credit to FiveThirtyEight, github.com/fivethirtyeight/data.
The two files overlap in 2000–2003, where the SSA count runs about 2% above the CDC/NCHS one; those four years are taken from the vital-statistics file, so each year has one source. Every date is scored against the average day of its own year before the years are averaged, so the join cannot move a ranking.