List of multiple births

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Twins (2)

Triplets (3)

Quadruplets (4)

• The Smith quadruplets, born 1750 in Kinsale, Ireland, to a fisherman's wife.
• The Fisk quadruplets, in Killingly, Connecticut, United States. Two boys and two girls all survived to adulthood.
• Dominica, 1790: According to The Times, a Dr. Giuseppe of Dominica reported that an unnamed Afro-Dominican woman living on the estate of Thomas Jemmitt gave birth to four girls, three of them almost eighteen hours after the first was born. All survived birth.
• The Rigby quadruplets. The babies were named Primus John, Secundus Charles Henry, Tertius Robert Palgrave and Quarta Caroline Susan. All died in infancy, Secundus on 2 September 1817, Tertius on 12 October 1817, Primus on 3 November 1817, and Quarta on 5 November 1817. On 24 December 1817, the Court of Aldermen presented their parents, Dr Edward Rigby and Mrs Anne Rigby, with a silver bread basket with the children's names engraved on it.
• The Gehri quadruplets were the first recorded to have survived to adulthood. There were two boys and two girls.
• The Page quadruplets were the first recorded quadruplets born in the United States.
• The Keys quadruplets were the first same-sex quadruplets known to survive to adulthood. They attended Baylor University on scholarships and graduated in 1937. Roberta Keys Torn, the last surviving sister, died at 96 years in August 2011.
• The Mahaney quadruplets were the first quadruplets born in Canada known to survive to adulthood.
• The Morlok quadruplets. The girls were the first known surviving set of identical quads and were later anonymised as the Genain quadruplets in psychiatric studies of genetic links to schizophrenia.
• The Johnson quadruplets were the first surviving set of quadruplets in Australasia.
• The Miles quadruplets are the oldest living quadruplets in the world; they became known as the St Neots Quads. All were still alive past their 85th birthday.
• The Badgett quadruplets were the second surviving set of quadruplets in the United States. The four girls, Geraldine, Joan, Jeanette, and Joyce, were minor celebrities in the 1940s and 1950s.
• The Fultz quadruplets were the first identical African-American quadruplets on record.
• The Sara quadruplets were the first surviving quadruplets in Australia. There were two boys, Mark and Philip, and two girls, Alison and Judith.
• The Alexander quadruplets were the first set of identical quadruplets born in New Zealand.
• The Steeves quadruplets were the first identical set of quadruplets to be born in Canada.
• The Durst quadruplets are identical quadruplets born 10 February 1993, in Robbinsdale, Minnesota. They appeared on the reality television series Four of a Kind.
• The Brino quadruplets played the twins Sam and David Camden on the television series 7th Heaven. When they all started to look different, the only girl, Myrinda, stopped appearing on the show. Only Nikolas and Lorenzo starred on the show until the series ended in 2007.
• The Aberdeen/Edwards quadruplets are four girls, born to Lystra Aberdeen and her common-law husband Anderson Edwards. This was the first confirmed case in Trinidad.
• Aditi, Aakriti, Akshiti and Aapti are quadruplets born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. They appeared in the Tamil film Enna Satham Indha Neram.

  Quintuplets (5)

• The Lyon quintuplets were the first American quintuplets who were all born alive. The last one survived until May 1896, all having starved to death.

• The Dionne quintuplets were the first quintuplets known to survive infancy. The five girls were also the only set of identical quintuplets known to live into adulthood.
• The Diligenti quintuplets were born to Franco and Ana Diligenti on 15 July 1943, in Argentina and were the second quintuplets to survive infancy and the first ever in South America. They included three girls, Maria Esther, Maria Fernanda, and Maria Cristina, and two boys, Carlos and Franco.
• The Prieto quintuplets, all boys, were born 7 September 1963, in Maracaibo, Venezuela, to Ines and Efren Prieto.
• The Fischer quintuplets were the first known surviving set of American quintuplets. They consisted of one boy and four girls. 3 of the 4 girls are identical: Magdalene, Margaret, and Catherine.
• The Lawson quintuplets were the first set of surviving quintuplets conceived through the use of fertility medication and are the only known New Zealand quintuplets: They were one boy and four girls. Shirlene, was the first of the quintuplets to marry. She was also the first to die, on 18 June 2019, aged 53.
• The Braham quintuplets were the first quintuplets to be born in Australia. They were conceived naturally and born to Pat and Roger Braham of Tenterfield, New South Wales. In birth order, they were Annabel Dorothy, Richard Gibson, Faith Elizabeth, Caroline, and Geoffrey Raymond. Geoffrey died at 4 days old; the others are still living.
• The Hanson quintuplets were the first set to survive in the United Kingdom, as well as the second surviving set of all-girl quintuplets after the Dionne quintuplets.
• The Kienast quintuplets were the first surviving set of American quintuplets conceived through fertility medication.
• The Rychert quintuplets were the first surviving set born in Poland.
• The Brunner quintuplets were the first surviving set born in France. Marc, Luc, Gilles, Maud, and Anne were nicknamed "Paris Match quintuplets" and clothed by designer Pierre Cardin, in 17 articles written from 1978 to 1984. For each article, they were clothed by the couturier Pierre Cardin.
• The Granata quintuplets were three boys and two girls conceived through the use of fertility medication and born at 28 weeks to Janice and George Granata. They were named Britton, Nathan, Amanda, Heather, and Eric. Britton died of lung failure on June 3, 1981. In 1983, the surviving four appeared with Oprah Winfrey on her show, People are Talking, along with their mother and their older sister Jenny. At age 15, the four appeared on The Jenny Jones Show.
• The Gaither quintuplets were the first surviving African-American quintuplets and were one of only three naturally-conceived American sets in 1983.
• The Al-Ghamdi quintuplets were the first set to be born in Saudi Arabia. The 5 boys were born to Salha and Saeed Al-Ghamdi.
• The Chapman-Burgess quintuplets are the only known set of Indigenous Australian quintuplets. Born to Adele and Ian Chapman-Burgess, they grew up in the regional town of Glen Innes, New South Wales. They consist of 2 boys and 3 girls.
• The Nur Adlan quintuplets were born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on 20 May 1996. The three girls and two boys were the first set of Malaysian quintuplets to survive infancy.
• The Chin quintuplets were born in Singapore on 1 April 1997. The two boys and three girls were the first quintuplets to be born in Singapore.
• The Cassidy quintuplets were born in Dublin, Ireland, on 16 August 2001, to Veronica and Kevin Cassidy of Wexford. The three boys and two girls were the first quintuplets to be born in Ireland.
• The Gonzalez-Moreno quintuplets were born in Phoenix, Arizona, on 26 April 2005, to Luisa Gonzalez and Enrique Moreno via surrogate mother, Teresa Anderson. The five boys are the first set of quintuplets born via surrogate. The boys, in order of birth, are Enrique, Jorge, Gabriel, Javier, and Victor and weighed between 3 lb 7oz and 3 lb 15oz.
• The Artamkin quintuplets were born in Oxford, England, on 10 November 2007, to Dimitri and Varvara Artamkin via Cesarean section. They were the first set of quintuplets born to Russian parents.
• The Kroščen quintuplets were born in Prague, Czech Republic, on 2 June 2013, to Alexandra Kiňová and Antonín Kroščen of Milovice. The four boys and one girl were the first recorded quintuplets to be born in the Czech Republic. They have one older brother, Antonio.
• The Busby quintuplets were born on 8 April 2015, in Houston, Texas, to Adam and Danielle Busby. The five girls are the first set of all female quintuplets born in the United States. Ava and Olivia are identical twins, and the quintuplets have an older sister, Blayke. The Busby quintuplets and their family are featured on the TLC reality series OutDaughtered, which premiered on 10 May 2016.

  Sextuplets (6)

• The Bushnell sextuplets were born to Winnie and James Bushnell. They are the first documented sextuplets born in the USA. Two died within a year, but the other four survived into adulthood.
• The Thorns sextuplets were born to Sheila and Barry Thorns. They were the first sextuplets known to have been born alive in the United Kingdom, but one baby died shortly after birth, and another two died within the next two weeks.
• The Letts sextuplets were born to Rosemary and John Letts two months prematurely at University College Hospital. One female was stillborn, and one boy and four girls survived: Cara Dawn, Sharon Marie, Joanne Nadine, Gary John, and Tanya Odile. This was the second case of surviving quintuplets in the United Kingdom. The family immigrated to Canada in 1974.
• The Stanek sextuplets were born to Edna and Eugene Stanek seven weeks premature at the University of Colorado Medical Center, four boys and two girls. One of the girls, Julia Stanek, died two days later, but the other five children survived infancy.
• The Rosenkowitz sextuplets were the first sextuplets known to survive their infancy. They were conceived using hormone fertility drugs.
• The Nijssen sextuplets were born to Corry and Sien Nijssen two months prematurely. There were four girls and two boys. Dennis died on 9 November 1977. They are the only set in the Netherlands.
• The Giannini sextuplets were the second sextuplets known to survive their infancy. They were born on the same date as the Rosenkowitz sextuplets, six years later.
• The Vanhove Gadeyne sextuplets were the first set of sextuplets to have been born in Belgium. The five boys and one girl weighed between 2 lbs 9oz and 3 lbs 3oz at birth.
• The Walton sextuplets were the first sextuplets born in the United Kingdom known to survive their infancy, and the world's first all-female sextuplets. They were delivered by caesarean section at 31 and a half weeks.
• The Adam sextuplets were the first surviving set of sextuplets in France. They are four girls and two boys. Their parents were under fertility treatments at the time of conception.
• The Dilley sextuplets were the first surviving set of sextuplets in the United States. They are two girls and four boys.
• The Boniello sextuplets set a record for the longest gestation of a sextuplet pregnancy in the United States at 29 weeks and one day. They have a younger sister, Nadia. This record was broken later in 1997 by the Thompson sextuplets.
• The Thompson sextuplets were born to Jacqueline and Linden Thompson. Mrs. Thompson set a record for the longest sextuplet pregnancy in the United States at 29 weeks and six days. One girl was stillborn; the five survivors are four girls and one boy. They are the first African-American sextuplets. They each weighed between 2 lbs 2oz and 2 lbs 6oz.
• The Harris sextuplets are two girls and four boys. They are Alabama's first set of sextuplets and were the first recorded set of surviving African-American sextuplets. Kaleb has nerve damage; while Kiera and Kyle have autism. The Harris family received a new home in a 2005 episode of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. The Harris' original three-bedroom, three-bath house was razed and a two-story, home was built.
• The Gosselin sextuplets were born just shy of 30 weeks gestation to parents Jon and Kate Gosselin. The set has three girls and three boys. The parents also have twin girls, Madelyn Kate and Cara Nicole, who were three years old at the time of the sextuplets' birth. The family was the subject of a reality television show, originally titled Jon & Kate Plus 8, that aired on TLC in the United States and Canada. The show was initially canceled after Jon and Kate's divorce, but was revived as Kate Plus 8 after viewer complaints. The series ended in 2011, with the last episode airing on 12 September of that year, then resumed with a new season in January 2015.
• The Hayes sextuplets are the first surviving sextuplets to be born in New Jersey. The six children, three girls and three boys, weighed a total of 24 lbs. and 14 oz., setting a world record for the heaviest set of sextuplets. The Hayes also have two sets of twins, Kevin and Kyle and Kieran and Meghan. They are the only family in the United States to have two sets of twins and a set of sextuplets. The family was the subject of a reality television show, Table for 12, on TLC in the U.S.
• Canada's first sextuplets were born at 25 weeks gestation. Two of them died shortly after birth.
• The Carpio sextuplets are the first Hispanic sextuplets to be born in America. It is not known if their parents, Victor and Digna Carpio, conceived using fertility treatments. The babies were delivered by Caesarean section at 25 weeks. They were the subject of a reality television show, Sextuplets Take New York.
• The Conway sextuplets were the first recorded sextuplets in Ireland. The four girls and two boys weighed between 1 lb. 7 oz. and 2 lb. 2 oz. were fourteen weeks premature and were named Ursula, Shannon, Karla, Kerrie, Austin and Eoghan.
• On 4 March 2013, the first sextuplets in Trinidad and Tobago and the Caribbean were born at the Maternity Hospital of the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex at Mount Hope, Trinidad and Tobago, to an anonymous Trinidadian couple. Two of them died a few weeks later.
• The Marzec sextuplets were the first recorded sextuplets in Poland.
• On 21 October 2021 the first ever sextuplet birth was reported in Sri Lanka. A 31-year-old mother from the Angoda area gave birth to 3 boys and 3 girls at Ninewells hospital in Colombo.