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Bianey vs Bianka

American parents have registered 2,534 Biankas since 1880, against 629 Bianeys. Bianka is still ahead, with 14 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Bianey against Bianka, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Bianey Bianka

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Bianka has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1974 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1986, when Bianey had 8 and Bianka had 9.

Side by side

  Bianey Bianka
Total US births 6292,534
Most in one year 39103
Babies in 2025 under 514
Estimated living today 6202,500
Median age today 2321
Peak year 20072007
Best rank 3,983rd girls1,988th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked7,491st
First recorded 19791974
Girls / boys 629 / 02,534 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Bianeys alive today are over 23; half the Biankas are over 21. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Bianey and Bianka.