# How much age difference between you and your next closest sibling? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 26, 2012, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-age-difference-between-you-and-your-next-closest-sibling/632749 "2012-08-26T20:30:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-age-difference-between-you-and-your-next-closest-sibling/632749/41 "2012-08-27T05:05:28Z")
5 years older to my sister and only sibling. ---
**Author:** ![saje](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saje/32/3631_2.png) [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-age-difference-between-you-and-your-next-closest-sibling/632749/42 "2012-08-27T09:39:23Z")
Eleven years. ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-age-difference-between-you-and-your-next-closest-sibling/632749/43 "2012-08-27T09:41:31Z")
I have a half brother who I haven’t seen since I was 18 months old. I want to say he’s about 16-20 years older than me, but I’d have to ask my mom for the exact number (he’s on my dad’s side, but she knew him a little and knows how old he is). ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-age-difference-between-you-and-your-next-closest-sibling/632749/44 "2012-08-27T09:45:17Z")
I have two older sisters: one is seven years older than me, the other ten years. I was an accident apparently 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Shakester](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shakester/32/437_2.png) [@Shakester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shakester)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-age-difference-between-you-and-your-next-closest-sibling/632749/45 "2012-08-27T09:50:56Z")
6 years, 5 months. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-age-difference-between-you-and-your-next-closest-sibling/632749/46 "2012-08-27T09:51:33Z")
If we’re doing administrations: I was born under the Curtin adminstration; my brother was born 28 months later under the Attlee adminstration (in a different country, of course). ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-age-difference-between-you-and-your-next-closest-sibling/632749/47 "2012-08-27T10:23:01Z")
There’s eleven years between the two of us. The accident and the afterthought 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![kenner116](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecb155/32.png) [@kenner116](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenner116)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-age-difference-between-you-and-your-next-closest-sibling/632749/48 "2012-08-27T10:32:38Z")
My sister is about 26.5 years older than me. My oldest brother is 30.5 years older (than me, not my sister!). My other brother is in between the two. ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-age-difference-between-you-and-your-next-closest-sibling/632749/49 "2012-08-27T10:40:40Z")
My younger brother, Larsornium The Inexplicable, was born 2 years, 9 months and 18 days after I was. That is, of course, in Terran time units. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-age-difference-between-you-and-your-next-closest-sibling/632749/50 "2012-08-27T10:55:43Z")
Almost exactly 2 years either way. My birthday is at the end of March; my older brother’s and younger sister’s are both in April. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-age-difference-between-you-and-your-next-closest-sibling/632749/51 "2012-08-27T11:52:00Z")
I am just under 15 months younger than my older brother. My mother had a miscarriage between the two of us. Then I have another brother that is 15 months younger than me. Our sister is 14 months younger than him. RCC for the overcrowding! ---
**Author:** ![Sudden\_Kestrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Sudden\_Kestrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sudden_Kestrel)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-age-difference-between-you-and-your-next-closest-sibling/632749/52 "2012-08-27T12:49:23Z")
There are 4 of us born within 5-1/3 years. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-age-difference-between-you-and-your-next-closest-sibling/632749/53 "2012-08-27T13:23:13Z")
4 years. My brother & sisters were the intentional ones. ---
**Author:** ![Waxwinged](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c2a13f/32.png) [@Waxwinged](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waxwinged)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-age-difference-between-you-and-your-next-closest-sibling/632749/54 "2012-08-27T13:29:42Z")
Half-sister, and 23 years. She could be my daughter… ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-age-difference-between-you-and-your-next-closest-sibling/632749/55 "2012-08-27T13:32:05Z")
Me to Middlebro, 6 years and 2 months; Middlebro to Littlebro, 2 years and 6 months. Our mother was sterile. Promise. The best ObGyns in Spain said so. Gives you a notion of what kind of ObGyn care could a woman expect in Spain in the mid-1960s (I’m a '68 vintage). ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-age-difference-between-you-and-your-next-closest-sibling/632749/56 "2012-08-27T14:02:19Z")
17 years. ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-age-difference-between-you-and-your-next-closest-sibling/632749/57 "2012-08-27T14:16:38Z")
> [@Waxwinged](#): > > Half-sister, and 23 years. She could be my daughter… My only sibling my sister is 21 years older than me, people ALWAYS assumed she was my mother and my mother my grandmother. Even up to high school this was assumed by everyone.:smack: ---
**Author:** ![janis\_and\_c0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janis_and_c0/32/21_2.png) [@janis\_and\_c0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janis_and_c0)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-age-difference-between-you-and-your-next-closest-sibling/632749/58 "2012-08-27T14:36:37Z")
I am one day and one year older than my brother. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-age-difference-between-you-and-your-next-closest-sibling/632749/59 "2012-08-27T15:37:51Z")
My brother is 17 years older than me; my sister two years older than him. I was a 20th anniversary ‘surprise’. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-age-difference-between-you-and-your-next-closest-sibling/632749/60 "2012-08-27T15:44:51Z")
Most are answering \> 3 years, the demographics of the SDMB are interesting. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-age-difference-between-you-and-your-next-closest-sibling/632749.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-age-difference-between-you-and-your-next-closest-sibling/632749.md?page=4)