girls:
25.3k births since 1910
#902 (84th percentile)
boys:
126 births since 1958
#4460 (3rd percentile)
overall:
25.4k births since 1910
#1597 (79th percentile)
The name Blanca is the #1,597 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 25,431 recorded births since 1910. This represents the 79.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 79.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #902 (84.2% percentile) for all time with 25,305 births since 1910. For boys, it ranks #4,460 (2.7% percentile) for all time with 126 births since 1958.
Blanca first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1910 (1910 for girls and 1958 for boys). Birth data for Blanca is available in 111 out of the 114 years between 1910 and 2023 (111 years for girls and 18 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 Blanca has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.5% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Blanca reached its peak popularity in 1990, achieving the 56.8% percentile (ranked #373) with 322 births per million. The name was most common in 1990, with 322 births per million (ranked 56.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Blanca ranks #849 for girls (10.4% percentile) with 59 births per million, which is 18.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Blanca reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.9% percentile (ranked #750) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1975, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.6% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1996.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Blanca".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Blanca. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 50.0% confident that Blanca is pronounced as BLANGK-uh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is BLAN-kuh, at 22.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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