How to Find out Someone’s Birthday in UK

Generosity is a very kind gesture that when extended towards someone else might leave them with a happy feeling. There are countless reasons why you might be looking to conduct a birthday lookup.  One very likely reason is that you are looking to surprise the person with a gift or better, a birthday party.

What better way to show it than on a birthday. This guide will give you tips on how to find someone’s birthday in UK. Officially there isn’t one big repository that you can easily access the start searching for any person’s birthday details in the United Kingdom. The best that you can do is look through historical sites for ancestry records but to try and find details of someone who is alive today might prove to be a challenge.

Luckily, there are places and methods you can use to find someone’s date of birth in UK. So If there are no friends or family members that you can ask for the birthday information, then you can try the following online suggestions.

Option 1: Google UK Birthday Search

One way to finding someone’s date of birth in UK would be to google it. Google is known as the leading search engine.  Simple search on it might give you the birthday. For a better search outcome, make sure to use Google.co.uk so that you are sure to peruse through UK records or websites.

Name searches will require that you include details like middle name, age, occupation, location to minimize the results. If you are lucky, positive outcome might be the results.

If the person you are looking up is famous or a celebrity, you will be lucky because Google will just show you the details instantly as in the image. However, if you are looking for a non famous person, you might need to dig a little bit deeper.

Tip: Type in the person’s full name including all other details and then birthday. Do consider adding the “UK” in your search query. The idea with Google birthday search is hoping there is a document of the person that somehow found its way on to the internet e.g. a birthday certificate, a form and got indexed by Google. This solution will not work for most people so see our other recommendations below.

See this comprehensive guide here on how to find someone’s birthday on Google

Option 2: UK Social Media Birthday Search

You might also consider searching from social media sites too. They are great sources of information on people. Users create profiles on them using information such as date of birth. All you have to do is get to the person’s profile and check if the date of birth was included. Some people would only provide their date of birth leaving out the year.

There are 45 million social media users from the UK. This is out of a population of 67 million. This means chances of finding someone’s profile and consequently their birth date on these platforms is high. A majority of the internet users are on YouTube, 73% on Facebook, 70,3% on WhatsApp etc. see graph below.

This basically means when deciding which social media site to use, it is best to start with Facebook because it has the highest number of users where people share most of their personal information. So your chances of finding the person’s information from that platform is higher. You can track Whatsapp for status updates, also use Instagram to go through their past posts to see birthday posts or even Linkedin.  That’s how social media sites can be used on how to find someone’s birthday but if you can’t find it then consider the next suggestion below.

Let’s make an example with Facebook,

Login to the website and use the people filter to choose a country of focus. see image example below

You will also have an option to choose their place of work and education level if you know this information. From there you can start looking through the profiles that will be presented to you.

Once you have opened the profile, go to “about” section under the “contact and basic info” tab you should find their birthday listed there as shown below.

Do note that not everyone will have this information shared publicly like this so if you it’s not there, then you can scroll through his/her wall to get to a time where friends post birthday wishes. This is provided you area already friends on the platform and you are privy to their wall. If all this does not work for you then you need to use the other methods recommended here.

You can also watch this video for more information

Option 3: UK Public Records Search

There are records that are made public in the UK through the public records act. This act was enacted in 1958 and amended over several years. It basically guides the access of public records in the United Kingdom.  When it was set up, it essentially established a cohesive regulatory framework for public records. These records are accessed through the Public Record Office and other places of deposit, one of which is the national archives.

This means the public can access these records from their keeper. It is worth mentioning that some general records are sealed from public access until 30 – 50 years later. so

Finding a birth certificate: So to find a birthdate would mean finding a birth certificate, that is the document that is made public Under UK law. You can  apply for a copy of any certificate. See more information here

Public records search is a site that offers searches on public records to the public. These are records such as birth, marriage, divorce, criminal, court, genealogy and more. You can search for public records using a name from here. You can choose a location to narrow down your search results.

Websites To Find Birth Records 

The above mentioned ideas can be quite helpful on how to find out someone birthday in the UK. Try them out and make that person’s special day more interesting.Below are a few recommended sites you can check out if the above information is not providing helpful

• FindMyPast.co.uk:  A site like find my past might have just what you are looking to find. Even though the site helps people find more about their ancestors, it also keeps records such as birth records up 2006.You can look up using a name from here. You will also need to provide approximate age, location and other details to help your search.
• vitalcertificates.co.uk: On this page you will find information on how you can request someone else’s birth certificate. However, note that they advise against trying to do this for a criminal activity.
• ancestry.co.uk: this site has a nice search feature you can try out. However, it looks like if only offers historical records that may be older than 30 years old.
• nationalarchives.gov.uk: Don’t give up your search without checking this site out since it is one of the main hosts of these public records.

Option 4: Other Ways to find someone’s birthday in UK

We provide more general information on how to find someone’s birthday in this website. check out some of the articles that can be of great help to you below.

• How to find someone’s birthday using their phone number – If you have the person’s number, which most likely you do, then take a few minutes to read this guide on how to use it to conduct the search.
• How to find someone’s birthday without asking them: here are some neat tricks and tips on how to indirectly ask the person whose birth date you are trying to find. I am sure you can try one of these tricks.
• How to find someone’s birthday on Instagram: In the article above the focus was on Facebook but you can also read this article to see how you can do it on Instagram.
• How to find someone’s birthday on Gmail: If this person is your friend or colleague, then you possibly have their email address. Maybe try this article to see if it can help in any way.