How Many People Are Named Blanche?
people named Blanche are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 40,476 people in the US has this name
Based on 87,648 babies named Blanche in Social Security records from 1880 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
2,842 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
From a medieval French nickname meaning "white, fair". This name and its cognates in other languages are ultimately derived from the Germanic word blanc. An early bearer was the 12th-century Blanca of Navarre, the wife of Sancho III of Castile. Her granddaughter of the same name married Louis VIII of France, with the result that the name became more common in France.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Blanche in English. Counting Blanche 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 Blanche (99.9%) were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Blanche alive today is about 74 years old, and 86% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 66 and 85 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Blanche first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 1917, to 2,842 babies. In 2025, 16 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Blanche never made the top 10 girls' names. Its best rank was #51, in 1886, and it was in the top 100 for 40 years, 1880 to 1919. In 2025 it ranked #6,890.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #6,890 |
| Best rank | #51 (1886) |
| Years in the top 100 | 40 (1880 to 1919) |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #87 in the 1910s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Blanche alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Blanche were born in New York than in any other state: about 785 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Blanche was given 2 times as often in Vermont, 1.9 times in Maine and 1.9 times in New Hampshire.
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