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Most common zodiac sign, by country
Five official birth registries, from 62 million US births to New York City's quarterly counts. Leo or Gemini on top, Capricorn almost always last.
Photo: Matthew Henry / Burst
At a glance
The most common zodiac sign is Leo in the US and Canada and Gemini in England and Wales and Australia. The rarest is Capricorn in 4 of 5 registries, and Sagittarius in Canada.
- United States (2000-2014)
- Leo8.96% · rarest Capricorn
- England & Wales (2025)
- Gemini8.83% · rarest Capricorn
- Canada (2024)
- Leo8.95% · rarest Sagittarius
- Australia (2023)
- Gemini8.77% · rarest Capricorn
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The lead
Counted from birth certificates, not guessed
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- Pick your sign in the tool below and see where it ranks in each registry.
- Born in a country not listed? The astronomy part still applies: Gemini to Virgo get the most Sun-days everywhere.
Most "most common zodiac sign" lists divide births by calendar month. That is how Aquarius ends up called rare: February is short. We used the official counts instead and placed them against the Sun's exact sign changes from the JPL ephemeris.
The answer depends on the country, but not by much. In the United States (2000–2014) it is Leo at 8.96%. In England and Wales (2025) it is Gemini at 8.83%. Canada (2024): Leo, 8.95%. Australia (2023): Gemini, 8.77%. New York City (2024): Leo, 8.72%.
In every one of them the top spots go to Gemini, Cancer, Leo and Virgo. Part of that is pure astronomy: Earth moves slowest in early July, so the Sun spends the most days in those signs everywhere on the planet. The rest is each country's own birth season.
The sky behind it
Method. We did not survey anyone and we did not roll random numbers. We stepped through every calendar day from 2000-01-01 to 2014-12-31 (5,479 days) and every four-minute slot of local clock time within each day, 1,972,440 birth moments in all. Each moment is weighted by the number of babies the US Social Security Administration recorded for that date (62.2 million births), divided evenly across the day. For each moment the Sun and Moon come from NASA JPL's DE442 ephemeris (tropical zodiac, geocentric) and the rising sign from the local sidereal time at the stated latitude.
What it assumes. Births spread evenly through the 24 hours. Real hospitals have a daytime bulge (scheduled C-sections and inductions), which nudges rising-sign pairings a little; our earlier rising-sign study found it moves no single rising sign by more than 0.03 points. The calendar is the US one for every latitude, so the non-US rows are "the same births, born further north or south", not a census of those countries.
| Sign | United States (2000–2014) | England & Wales (2025) | Canada (2024) | Australia (2023) | New York City (2024) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aries | 8.14 (#8) | 8.27 (#7) | 8.20 (#8) | 8.27 (#8) | 8.14 (#8) |
| Taurus | 8.29 (#6) | 8.53 (#4) | 8.50 (#5) | 8.60 (#5) | 8.25 (#7) |
| Gemini | 8.56 (#4) | 8.83 (#1) | 8.68 (#4) | 8.77 (#1) | 8.51 (#5) |
| Cancer | 8.84 (#3) | 8.79 (#2) | 8.93 (#2) | 8.75 (#2) | 8.67 (#3) |
| Leo | 8.96 (#1) | 8.75 (#3) | 8.95 (#1) | 8.65 (#3) | 8.72 (#1) |
| Virgo | 8.94 (#2) | 8.47 (#6) | 8.82 (#3) | 8.61 (#4) | 8.71 (#2) |
| Libra | 8.52 (#5) | 8.49 (#5) | 8.50 (#6) | 8.52 (#6) | 8.57 (#4) |
| Scorpio | 8.19 (#7) | 8.17 (#9) | 8.23 (#7) | 8.33 (#7) | 8.32 (#6) |
| Sagittarius | 7.95 (#10) | 7.83 (#11) | 7.67 (#12) | 7.64 (#11) | 8.09 (#10) |
| Capricorn | 7.63 (#12) | 7.58 (#12) | 7.69 (#11) | 7.54 (#12) | 7.93 (#12) |
| Aquarius | 7.93 (#11) | 8.08 (#10) | 7.92 (#9) | 8.07 (#10) | 8.00 (#11) |
| Pisces | 8.04 (#9) | 8.21 (#8) | 7.91 (#10) | 8.25 (#9) | 8.10 (#9) |
The rarest
Capricorn is last almost everywhere
Capricorn is the rarest Sun sign in 4 of the five registries, and where it is not, it is second to last. The full tally: Capricorn in 4 of 5 registries, and Sagittarius in Canada.
The Sun spends the fewest days in Capricorn, about 29.4 days, because Earth moves fastest near its early-January perihelion. And late December to mid-January is the low point of births in every registry here, including Australia, where it is summer. Fewer scheduled deliveries over the holidays look the same in both hemispheres.
Aquarius, the sign month-based lists love to call rarest, beats Capricorn in every one of these registries.
Add the rising sign
From Sun sign to big three, by city
A country's birth calendar sets the Sun sign. The rising sign comes from the city's latitude, and that is where national differences get bigger.
In Toronto the most common rising sign is Leo at 10.90% and the rarest Aries at 4.65%. In London, further north, Virgo at 11.86% against Aries at 3.65%. In Sydney the order flips: Taurus at 10.09%, Virgo at 5.58%.
So a Capricorn Sun with Aries rising is a rare pairing in London and Toronto. In Sydney the rare rising signs are the ones opposite, around Virgo and Libra.
Try it
Where is your sign most common?
Pick your Sun sign to see its rank in each registry, then open any registry's full ranking.
Where Scorpio ranks
United States (2000–2014): 7 of 12, 8.19%
England & Wales (2025): 9 of 12, 8.17%
Canada (2024): 7 of 12, 8.23%
Australia (2023): 7 of 12, 8.33%
New York City (2024): 6 of 12, 8.32%
Full ranking for one registry
More to read
Shorter reads. Each opens in place.
The world
Is there a worldwide answer?
No country publishes a global count of births by day, so a world ranking does not exist. Anyone quoting one is guessing. The astronomy (more Sun-days for Cancer through Virgo) is universal; the birth season is local.
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The data
Daily, monthly and quarterly counts
US and England and Wales counts are by day. Canada and Australia are by month and NYC by quarter, split across signs by the Sun's exact ingress times; that split moves no sign by more than 0.27 points.
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Quick answers
What is the most common zodiac sign in the US?
Leo, at 8.96% of 62,187,026 registered US births from 2000 to 2014. The rarest is Capricorn at 7.63%.
What is the most common zodiac sign in the UK?
In England and Wales, Gemini, at 8.83% of births registered in 2025. Capricorn is the rarest at 7.58%.
What is the most common zodiac sign in Australia?
Gemini, at 8.77% of 2023 births by month of occurrence. Capricorn is the rarest at 7.54%.
What is the most common zodiac sign in Canada?
Leo, at 8.95% of 2024 births (preliminary monthly counts). Sagittarius is the rarest at 7.67%.
What is the rarest zodiac sign in the world?
No global day-by-day birth count exists, so nobody can say for certain. In every registry we checked the rarest is Capricorn or Sagittarius.
Rarest to most common zodiac sign, in order?
In the US, 2000 to 2014, from rarest to most common: Capricorn, Aquarius, Sagittarius, Pisces, Aries, Scorpio, Taurus, Libra, Gemini, Cancer, Virgo, Leo.
