How Many People Are Named Blanch?
people named Blanch are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 445,612 people in the US has this name
Based on 6,450 babies named Blanch in Social Security records from 1880 to 1983, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
181 births
Trend
Last year given
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Variant of BLANCHE.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Blanch in English. Counting Blanch and these spellings together, about 9,211 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Almost all of the babies given the name Blanch (99.9%) were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Blanch alive today is about 77 years old, and 93% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 70 and 86 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Blanch first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 1924, to 181 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 1983.
Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 1983
🏆 Rank History
Blanch has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #246, in 1885.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #246 (1885) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #601 in the 1920s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Blanch alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Blanch were born in North Carolina than in any other state: about 34 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Blanch was given 4.7 times as often in North Carolina, 4.7 times in South Carolina and 3.9 times in Virginia.
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