date of birth

noun phrase

: the month, day, and year a person was born : birth date
Give your full name and date of birth.

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Some counties additionally require your date of birth and residential ZIP code. Enquirer Staff, The Enquirer, 4 Nov. 2024 This will include name, date of birth, email address, mailing address and other pertinent information. Tim Van Straten, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024 The first step is to navigate to your state's online portal, where you'll be asked to provide basic information such as your first and last name, date of birth and zip code. Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 3 Nov. 2024 Clicking Set Up required me to fill in personal information such as name, date of birth, SSN, and address. PCMAG, 7 Oct. 2024 Applicants must not currently plan to change their name, gender, date of birth, or place of birth. Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 18 Sep. 2024 Years ago, a man who was then my fiancé gave me a mourning ring, inscribed with the name and dates of birth and death of a Frenchwoman who lived in the mid-eighteenth century. Leslie Camhi, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2024 Information accessed included customer names, transaction information, bank account numbers, email addresses, postal addresses, dates of birth phone numbers, utility bills, government IDs and social security numbers. Cheryl V. Jackson, The Courier-Journal, 9 Oct. 2024 Miranda Tyson While Miranda’s exact date of birth is not known, Tyson and Young welcomed her sometime in the mid-1990s, naming her after one of Uranus' moons. Katie Mannion, People.com, 5 Oct. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1789, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of date of birth was in 1789

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“Date of birth.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/date%20of%20birth. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.

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