girls:
6.4k births since 1880
#2066 (64th percentile)
boys:
30 births since 1916
#4556 (1st percentile)
overall:
6.5k births since 1880
#3369 (56th percentile)
The name Blanch is the #3,369 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 6,450 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 56.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 56.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,066 (63.9% percentile) for all time with 6,420 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,556 (0.6% percentile) for all time with 30 births since 1916.
Blanch has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1916 for boys). Birth data for Blanch is available in 95 out of the 104 years between 1880 and 1983 (95 years for girls and 5 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 Blanch has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.5% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Blanch reached its peak popularity in 1915, achieving the 29.0% percentile (ranked #397) with 171 births per million. The name was most common in 1885, with 472 births per million (ranked 22.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1983.
For boys, Blanch reached its peak popularity in 1921, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #547) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1921, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1932.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Blanch".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Blanch. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Blanch is pronounced as blanch, which has 1 syllables.
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