Blanche
The girl's name Blanche has been in the national records since 1880, with 87,648 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 6,838th. About 8,400 Blanches are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 76.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Blanche boys named Blanche
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 87,648
- Estimated living today
- 8,400
- Median age today
- 76
- Peak year
- 1917
- Best rank
- 91st
- Rank in 2025
- 6,838th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 87,425 / 223
How old the living Blanches are
born that year still alive today
Of the 87,648 babies given the name since 1880, about 8,400 are alive — 10 in every hundred. Roughly 130 of them are children and 6,600 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1949 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin French
. The surname originated as a nickname, or as a matronymic.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Blanches
- Blanche of Castile (1188–1252)Queen consort of France
- Blanche I of Navarre (1387–1441)Queen regnant of Navarre and queen consort of Sicily
- Blanche (born 1999)Belgian singer
- Blanche II of Navarre (1424–1464)princess of the House of Aragon and queen pretendent of Navarre
- Blanche of Navarre, Queen of France (1331–1398)French queen consort
- Blanche of Lancaster (1342–1368)English noblewoman and heiress, died 1368
- Blanche of Burgundy (1296–1326)Queen of France and Navarre, first wife of King Charles IV
- Blanche Lincoln (born 1960)American politician
People named Blanche with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Blanche is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Blanche is most concentrated in Vermont (2.8×), North Dakota (2.5×), Maine (2.5×), Rhode Island (2.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1917
The most popular girls’ names the year Blanche peaked:
Blanche elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Blanche | 40,635 | 34th |
| Belgium girls | Blanche | 200 | 525th |
| France boys | Blanche | 60 | 1,666th |
| England and Wales girls | Blanche | 42 | 3,985th |
| Ireland girls | Blanche | 3 | 466th |
| Poland girls | Blanche | 2 birth registrations | 658th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Blanche: rank by region
In 2018, Blanche was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Blanche | 475 | 5 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Blanche among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Blanche | — | 8 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Blanche against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.