# Bianca (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/bianca/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | Italian |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | /biˈæŋkə/, 3 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 77,759 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 195 / 77,564 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 2,117, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From Italian Bianca, equivalent of English Blanche.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 1,121 | 283 |
| 2012 | 1,028 | 313 |
| 2013 | 1,057 | 303 |
| 2014 | 907 | 361 |
| 2015 | 859 | 381 |
| 2016 | 853 | 386 |
| 2017 | 834 | 374 |
| 2018 | 769 | 404 |
| 2019 | 687 | 454 |
| 2020 | 726 | 420 |
| 2021 | 699 | 448 |
| 2022 | 747 | 423 |
| 2023 | 659 | 467 |
| 2024 | 681 | 462 |
| 2025 | 594 | 500 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1986 | 5 | 6,829 |
| 1987 | 10 | 4,271 |
| 1988 | 18 | 2,977 |
| 1989 | 34 | 2,071 |
| 1990 | 19 | 3,179 |
| 1991 | 13 | 4,256 |
| 1992 | 11 | 4,903 |
| 1993 | 7 | 6,896 |
| 1994 | 5 | 8,930 |
| 1995 | 10 | 5,540 |
| 1996 | 6 | 8,060 |
| 1997 | 5 | 9,421 |
| 2001 | 6 | 9,388 |
| 2003 | 8 | 7,928 |
| 2004 | 6 | 10,106 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 92 | 464 |
| 2012 | 90 | 487 |
| 2013 | 93 | 450 |
| 2014 | 109 | 399 |
| 2015 | 88 | 492 |
| 2016 | 106 | 419 |
| 2017 | 108 | 405 |
| 2018 | 110 | 402 |
| 2019 | 101 | 417 |
| 2020 | 107 | 402 |
| 2021 | 97 | 449 |
| 2022 | 89 | 471 |
| 2023 | 73 | 536 |
| 2024 | 67 | 583 |
| 2025 | 73 | 542 |

## In other languages

- Chinese: 比安卡
- Danish: Bianca
- French: Bianca, Bianka, Blanche
- German: Bianca, Bianka
- Hungarian: Bianka
- Italian: Bianca
- Japanese: ビアンカ
- Korean: 비앙카
- Polish: Bianka
- Portuguese: Bianca
- Romanian: Bianca
- Russian: Биáнка
- Slovak: Bianka
- Spanish: Bianca
- Swedish: Bianca

## People named Bianca

- Bianca Andreescu, Canadian tennis player
- Bianca Lawson, American actress
- Bianca Belair, American professional wrestler
- Bianca Knight, American sprinter
- Bianca Maria Visconti, Duchess of Milan from 1450 to 1468
- Bianca Kajlich, American actress
- Bianca Ryan, American singer
- Bianca Del Rio, American Drag Queen
- Bianca Beauchamp, Canadian latex fetish and adult model
- Bianca Censori, Australian architect and model (born 1995)
- Bianca A. Santos, American actress
- Bianca Williams, British sprinter and human rights activist

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.