Can I generate a random birthday by month and day only?

Not on this page; the output always includes the year and weekday. Ignore the year if you only need month and day, or use the Random Date Generator if you want to pin the range to a single year.

What years can the random date of birth fall in?

Anywhere from 1 January 1950 to 30 August 2024. There's no setting to narrow that; click again if you need a date in a particular decade.

Is the weekday accurate?

Yes. It's computed from the date using the standard calendar, so the weekday shown is the real day of the week for that date.

Is it safe to use a random birthday on a website?

For low-stakes sign-ups, a made-up birthday is a reasonable privacy measure. For anything tied to identity, payments or account recovery, use your real date, since a mismatch can lock you out later.

Random Birthday Generator

One click gives you a random date of birth between 1950 and 2024, written out with its weekday, day, month and year.

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The Random Birthday Generator gives you one complete date of birth per click, written out in full: "Wednesday, 16 April 2014" or "Friday, 03 August 1962". The date is picked uniformly from the span between 1 January 1950 and 30 August 2024, so the person it describes would be anywhere from a toddler to their mid-seventies today. It's for filling in a birth date where a real one isn't needed: a character sheet, a sample user record, a form field on a site that has no business knowing your birthday.

How it works

There's a single button and no options. Each press picks a random instant inside the 1950–2024 window and formats it as weekday, two-digit day, month name and four-digit year. Because it's drawn from a continuous range rather than a list, every calendar date in that span is possible, including 29 February in leap years. You get one date at a time; press again for another.

If you need control over the range, the Random Date Generator lets you set start and end dates. If you only need a part of the date, the Random Year Generator, Random Month Generator and Random Day of the Week Generator each give one piece.

Reading the output

The format is Weekday, DD Month YYYY, which is the style most of the world outside the US uses in writing. To convert for a US form, move the month first: "Wednesday, 16 April 2014" becomes 04/16/2014; for an ISO field it becomes 2014-04-16. The weekday is calculated from the date, so it's correct for the calendar: 16 April 2014 really was a Wednesday. That's useful if a story or test case needs to say "she was born on a Sunday" and be right about it.

Ways people use a random date of birth

Characters and profiles. Give a fictional character a birthday, then work out their age at each point in the story. Pairing this with the Random Zodiac Sign Generator is overkill, since you can read the sign straight off the generated date.
Test data. Developers use dates like these to populate user tables, check age-validation logic (a 1950 date should pass an 18+ check; a 2024 date shouldn't) and test date formatting across locales.
Placeholder for sign-up forms. When a service demands a birth date it doesn't need, a random one keeps the real one out of yet another database. Don't do this for banks, government services or anything you'll need to recover an account with later.
Games and icebreakers. Generate a date and have everyone guess the weekday, or the age the person would be now. The Random Age Generator does the age part directly if that's all the game needs.

Birthdays in the 1950–2024 range

A few things about real birth dates that the generator ignores but that matter if you're using its output to look realistic. Births aren't spread evenly across the year: in the United States, September has the most, with 9 September commonly cited as the single most frequent birthday, and 25 December among the least frequent because scheduled deliveries avoid it. Weekdays outnumber weekends for the same reason. And the population isn't evenly spread across years either; there are far more living people born in 1990 than in 1950. The generator treats every day in its window as equally likely, which is what you want for test coverage and not what you'd see in a census.

The classic birthday problem also applies: in any group of 23 people, there's a better-than-even chance two share a birthday. Generate 23 dates here and compare the day and month; you'll hit a match more often than intuition suggests. More date and time tools are listed under all date and time generators.

Frequently asked questions

Can I generate a random birthday by month and day only?: Not on this page; the output always includes the year and weekday. Ignore the year if you only need month and day, or use the Random Date Generator if you want to pin the range to a single year.
What years can the random date of birth fall in?: Anywhere from 1 January 1950 to 30 August 2024. There's no setting to narrow that; click again if you need a date in a particular decade.
Is the weekday accurate?: Yes. It's computed from the date using the standard calendar, so the weekday shown is the real day of the week for that date.
Is it safe to use a random birthday on a website?: For low-stakes sign-ups, a made-up birthday is a reasonable privacy measure. For anything tied to identity, payments or account recovery, use your real date, since a mismatch can lock you out later.