# Blanca (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/blanca/  
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 | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 25,653 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 126 / 25,527 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 125, 1996 to 2025 |

## 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 | 133 | 1,620 |
| 2012 | 151 | 1,492 |
| 2013 | 114 | 1,794 |
| 2014 | 130 | 1,645 |
| 2015 | 116 | 1,798 |
| 2016 | 121 | 1,731 |
| 2017 | 96 | 2,041 |
| 2018 | 102 | 1,941 |
| 2019 | 113 | 1,805 |
| 2020 | 102 | 1,885 |
| 2021 | 95 | 2,027 |
| 2022 | 107 | 1,885 |
| 2023 | 103 | 1,924 |
| 2024 | 106 | 1,884 |
| 2025 | 107 | 1,857 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 9 | 3,685 |
| 1980 | 7 | 4,988 |
| 1981 | 10 | 3,883 |
| 1982 | 10 | 3,989 |
| 1983 | 5 | 6,349 |
| 1984 | 8 | 4,597 |
| 1986 | 9 | 4,497 |
| 1987 | 6 | 6,179 |
| 1988 | 7 | 5,817 |
| 1989 | 8 | 5,686 |
| 1990 | 11 | 4,692 |
| 1991 | 5 | 8,344 |
| 1993 | 5 | 8,844 |
| 1994 | 6 | 7,877 |
| 1996 | 5 | 9,155 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 4 | 4,688 |
| 2011 | 4 | 4,764 |
| 2012 | 9 | 2,717 |
| 2013 | 7 | 3,160 |
| 2014 | 5 | 4,003 |
| 2015 | 13 | 2,070 |
| 2016 | 4 | 4,763 |
| 2017 | 9 | 2,706 |
| 2018 | 9 | 2,674 |
| 2019 | 10 | 2,458 |
| 2020 | 5 | 3,899 |
| 2021 | 8 | 2,942 |
| 2022 | 5 | 3,970 |
| 2023 | 7 | 3,218 |
| 2024 | 8 | 3,015 |

## People named Blanca

- Princess Blanca of Bourbon, Austro-Tuscan Imperial and Royal (1868-1949)
- Blanca Lewin, Chilean actress (born 1974)
- Blanca Rodríguez de Pérez, First Lady of Venezuela (1926–2020)
- Blanca Busquets, Catalan journalist and author
- Blanca Rosa Gil, Cuban Latin Bolero singer
- Jeanette Kawas, Environmental activist (1946-1995)

## 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.