Date of Birth June 15th, 2015 Written in Words, in English, How To Say the Date in [Month Day, Year] Format

Convert and write out the date of birth
06-15-2015 = June 15th, 2015
in words: how to say it in American and British English

A calendar date is referring to a specific day in the calendar. A complete date consists of the day, the month and the year. In American English date representation, the month comes just before the day, followed by the year, as in month-day-year. In British English the day comes first, before the month, followed by the year, as in day-month-year.

American English date representation:

  • Calendar dates are always part of a calendar, the most used currently in the world being the Gregorian calendar, which is an improvement of the Julian one.
  • In American English date representation, the month comes first, just before the day, followed by the year.
  • This is called middle endian representation: the middle significant value, the month, comes first.
  • The day is the least significant value, the year is the most significant value in the sequence.

June the fifteenth, twenty fifteen

or: June the fifteenth, two thousand fifteen


* The definite article 'the' can be left out:


June fifteenth, twenty fifteen

or: June fifteenth, two thousand fifteen

British English (UK) date representation:

  • In British English (UK) date representation the day comes first, just before the month, followed by the year.
  • This is called little endian representation: the least significant value, the day, comes first.
  • The month has middle significance and the year is the most significant.

British English (UK)
15-06-2015 = 15th June, 2015
Convert and Spell Out the Date, in Words:


the fifteenth of June, twenty fifteen

or: the fifteenth of June, two thousand and fifteen


In British English the day is said first, followed by the month.




Middle endian

  • In American English date representation, the month comes firt, just before the day, followed by the year, as in mm-dd-yyyy. This is called middle endian representation: the middle significant value, the month, comes first. The day is the least significant value, the year is the most significant value in the sequence.

Little endian

  • In British English (UK) date representation the day comes first, just before the month, followed by the year, as in dd-mm-yyyy. This is called little endian representation: the least significant value, the day, comes first. The month has middle significance and the year is the most significant.

Big endian

  • Big-endian is a term which is related to an order in which the most significant value in the sequence comes first, so, in our case, the year, usually followed by the month and then by the day, as in yyyy-mm-dd.

Notes on Writing Out Numbers and Years:

  • 1: In American English, unlike British English, when writing out years of three or more digits, the word 'and' is not used after 'hundred' or 'thousand'; i.e. 963 is written out as 'nine sixty-three' (American English) and not as 'nine hundred and sixty-three' (British English); 2025 is 'two thousand twenty-five' (American English) and not 'two thousand and twenty-five' (British English).
  • 2. Up to 1999 the years are spoken as hundreds, but for shortening, the words 'hundred and' are omitted: i. e. 1999 = 'nineteen (hundred and) ninety-nine' = 'nineteen ninety-nine'.
  • 3. After the year 2000 the years are spoken as normal numbers, but for shortening, in colloquial language, the years are pronounced in groups of two: i. e. 2000 = 'two thousand'; 2001 = 'two thousand (and) one', but also 'twenty oh one'.
  • 4. Do not use commas when writing in digits years above 999; i.e. it is 1234; 1973, 2021, and not 1,234; 1,973, 2,021.
  • 5: It's correct to hyphenate all compound numbers from 'twenty-one' (21) through 'ninety-nine' (99). The hyphen is the minus sign, as in 'thirty-four' (34).

How to write and say the date in both American and British English

1. How to write and say the date in American English

  • Rule of order: Month Day Year. In American English (US) date representation the month comes first, just before the day, followed by the year.
  • You write the date using numbers as: 07-15-2018 = July 15th, 2018;
  • You write and say the date, in words as: "July (the)* fifteenth, twenty eighteen" OR "July (the)* fifteenth, two thousand eighteen";
  • * The definite article "the" can be left out.

2. How to write and say the date in British English

  • Rule of order: Day Month Year. In British English (UK) date representation the day comes first, just before the month, followed by the year.
  • You write the date using numbers as: 15-07-2018 = 15th of July, 2018;
  • You write and say the date, in words as: "the fifteenth of July, twenty eighteen" OR "the fifteenth of July, two thousand and eighteen";

3. It is common to use numbers instead of months when writing the date

  • 04-05-2018 is April 5th, 2018 according to the American English standard, but it is the 4th of May, 2018 in British English.
  • 01-09-2020 is January 9th, 2020 according to the American English standard, but it is the 1st of September, 2020 in British English.
  • 07-03-2022 is July 3rd, 2022 according to the American English standard, but it is 7th of March, 2022 in British English.