# Grand Niece with my birthday

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grand-niece-with-my-birthday/918226>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 16, 2020, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grand-niece-with-my-birthday/918226 "2020-08-16T00:50:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![Backwater\_UnderDuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b782af/32.png) [@Backwater\_UnderDuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Backwater_UnderDuck)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2020, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grand-niece-with-my-birthday/918226/1 "2020-08-16T00:50:56Z")

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Just born yesterday. Other than the fact that I will be sure that this is a lucky little girl, is there any kind of folk tradition concerning shared birthdays in extended families?

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**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2020, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grand-niece-with-my-birthday/918226/2 "2020-08-16T03:05:10Z")

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Congratulations!

I don’t know the answer to your question, but today is the shared birthday of my brother-in-law’s wife and of their son (their only child). My B-I-L jokes to her that he gave her one heck of a birthday present.