Number of Children

  • John Tyler had the most children with 16 (15 with his two wives).
  • Five presidents (Washington, MadisonJackson, Polk, Buchanan) did not have any biological children.
  • On average the presidents had 4.1 children.
  • The most frequent number of children is two, which happened eleven times.
  • * includes adopted children
  • + includes children outside of marriage (proven or alleged)

Rank#PresidentChildren
110John Tyler16 +
23Thomas Jefferson14 +
39William Henry Harrison11 +
419Rutherford B. Hayes8
520James A. Garfield7
612Zachary Taylor6
622 & 24Grover Cleveland6 +
626Theodore Roosevelt6
632Franklin D. Roosevelt6
641George H. W. Bush6
112John Adams5
118Martin Van Buren5
1117Andrew Johnson5
1145 & 47Donald J. Trump5
156John Quincy Adams4
1516Abraham Lincoln4
1518Ulysses S. Grant4
1523Benjamin Harrison4
1538Gerald R. Ford4
1539Jimmy Carter4
1540Ronald Reagan4 *
1546Joe Biden4
235James Monroe3
2314Franklin Pierce3
2321Chester A. Arthur3
2327William H. Taft3
2328Woodrow Wilson3
2335John F. Kennedy3
291George Washington2 *
297Andrew Jackson2 *
2913Millard Fillmore2
2925William McKinley2
2930Calvin Coolidge2
2931Herbert Hoover2
2934Dwight D. Eisenhower2
2936Lyndon B. Johnson2
2937Richard M. Nixon2
2943George W. Bush2
2944Barack Obama2
4015James Buchanan1 *
4029Warren G. Harding1 +
4033Harry S. Truman1
4042Bill Clinton1
444James Madison0
4411James K. Polk0

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