STUDY: The States with the Most St. Patrick's Day Babies

Whether or not your ancestors hail from the old sod, there’s a lot to love about the day that commemorates Ireland’s patron saint.

And that starts with the country’s biggest St. Patrick’s Day parades.

Americans love to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day in some manner, whether it be by dressing as leprechauns scamper or pouring a nice whiskey or a batch of Irish coffee. Still, whatever one calls March 17th, we can comfortably forecast an uptick in amorous enterprises at the end of the evening.

But which states have the most St. Patrick’s Day-related births?

With this in mind, Betway decided to analyze the year-round birth rates of every state in the US in order to reveal which states noticed the biggest Baby Boom in December – 9 months after St. Patrick’s Day.

The research showed that:

Utah has the highest birth rate in December, indicating a rise in getting all their St. Patrick’s day flair on during the day.
California ranks 23rd on the list, with almost 36,000 people being born 9 months after St. Patrick’s Day!
New York ranks towards the bottom of the list (32nd place) with nearly 20,000 births.

The top 10 states based on the data are as follows:

Rank	State	No. of Births	Total Population	Births Per Thousand People
1	Utah	3766	3,339,113	1.127844
2	Texas	33270	29,558,864	1.125551
3	North Dakota	858	777,934	1.102921
4	Louisiana	4998	4,627,098	1.080159
5	Arkansas	3219	3,028,122	1.063035
6	Oklahoma	4169	3,991,225	1.044541
7	Nebraska	2022	1,963,554	1.029765
8	Tennessee	7107	6,968,351	1.019897
9	Kansas	2984	2,937,922	1.015684
10	Mississippi	2982	2,949,586	1.010989
11	Georgia	10891	10,788,029	1.009545
12	South Dakota	898	896,164	1.002049
13	Alabama	5056	5,049,846	1.001219
14	North Carolina	10490	10,565,885	0.992818
15	Indiana	6669	6,813,532	0.978788
16	Alaska	715	734,182	0.973873
17	Idaho	1852	1,904,314	0.972529
18	Arizona	6964	7,264,877	0.958585
19	Kentucky	4294	4,506,589	0.952827
20	Virginia	8123	8,657,365	0.938276
21	California	36647	39,142,991	0.936234
22	Missouri	5726	6,169,823	0.928066
23	Iowa	2963	3,197,689	0.926607
24	South Carolina	4806	5,193,266	0.925429
25	Ohio	10766	11,764,342	0.915138
26	Maryland	5639	6,174,610	0.913256
27	Nevada	2865	3,146,402	0.910564
28	Minnesota	5199	5,711,471	0.910273
29	New Jersey	8416	9,267,961	0.908075
30	Hawaii	1307	1,447,154	0.903152
31	Wyoming	518	579,483	0.8939
32	Washington	6896	7,740,745	0.89087
33	New York	17626	19,857,492	0.887625
34	Florida	19240	21,828,069	0.881434
35	Montana	962	1,106,227	0.869623
36	Colorado	5039	5,811,297	0.867104
37	Michigan	8674	10,037,504	0.864159
38	Wisconsin	5074	5,880,101	0.86291
39	Delaware	865	1,004,807	0.860862
40	New Mexico	1813	2,116,677	0.856531
41	Illinois	10709	12,686,469	0.844128
42	Pennsylvania	10810	13,012,059	0.830768
43	West Virginia	1478	1,785,526	0.827767
44	Connecticut	2886	3,623,355	0.796499
45	Oregon	3349	4,256,301	0.786833
46	Massachusetts	5487	6,989,690	0.785013
47	Rhode Island	846	1,096,985	0.771205
48	New Hampshire	973	1,387,505	0.701259
49	Maine	895	1,377,238	0.649851
50	Vermont	405	646,972	0.625993

Even though November babies are popular, there are still more August and September births overall.

This certainly indicates that Thanksgiving and Christmas are far more popular occasions for parents to catch some time alone with each other. However, July also sees a large number of births, suggesting Halloween is another time of year the bedroom gets busy.