girls:
76.3k births since 1905
#447 (92nd percentile)
boys:
195 births since 1979
#4391 (4th percentile)
overall:
76.5k births since 1905
#823 (89th percentile)
The name Bianca is the #823 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 76,472 recorded births since 1905. This represents the 89.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 89.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #447 (92.2% percentile) for all time with 76,277 births since 1905. For boys, it ranks #4,391 (4.2% percentile) for all time with 195 births since 1979.
Bianca first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1905 (1905 for girls and 1979 for boys). Birth data for Bianca is available in 107 out of the 119 years between 1905 and 2023 (107 years for girls and 20 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Bianca has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Bianca reached its peak popularity in 1990, achieving the 90.4% percentile (ranked #84) with 1,864 births per million. The name was most common in 1991, with 1,890 births per million (ranked 89.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1993, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Bianca ranks #418 for girls (55.9% percentile) with 377 births per million, which is 19.9% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Bianca reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 4.4% percentile (ranked #724) with 16 births per million. The name was most common in 1989, with 16 births per million (ranked 4.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2004.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Bianca".
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Our model has identified 11 different pronunciations for the name Bianca. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 26.0% confident that Bianca is pronounced as bee-AHNGK-uh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is bee-AHN-kuh, at 14.0% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like B IY0 AA1 N G K AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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