How rare is my height?
Set your height and see exactly where it lands: what percentage of adults are shorter, how many are your height or taller, and how that compares to the median. Heights come from CDC NHANES — physically measured, not self-reported.
Your height
Published height data for United States covers 5'0" to 6'5".
Where these height percentiles come from
The percentile ladder behind this calculator is the same one the main rarity and delusion calculators use: measured adult heights from the CDC's National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). NHANES heights are taken by trained health technicians in a mobile examination centre rather than reported by the participant, which matters — self-reported heights skew upward, particularly for men.
Because the published ladder is a table of percentiles at fixed heights, values between rows are read from the nearest lower row, and heights beyond the ends of the table are reported as "or taller" at the edge value rather than extrapolated.
What counts as a rare height?
Height is close to normally distributed, so rarity climbs sharply at the tails. Moving from average to a couple of inches above average moves you a long way in percentile terms; moving from tall to very tall moves you much further again. That's why a two-inch difference can feel like it changes everything at the top of the range and almost nothing in the middle.
Height rarity vs overall rarity
This page answers one question about one trait. If you want your combined rarity across height, age, body type, lifestyle and background at once, the full rarity calculator runs the same engine over every trait together — and rarity multiplies fast once you stack several.