In 2025, 107 US girls were named Blanca, making it the 1,857th most common girls’ name of the year, up 27 places from #1,884 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 106 girls named Blanca in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #393, reached in 1990. That year also had the most girls given the name: 662. For comparison, it was #1,798 in 2015 and #604 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Blanca in 113 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1910 with 6 babies. In all, 25,653 US babies have been given the name, 99.5% of them girls and 0.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 5,218 babies named Blanca.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,052 US girls were named Blanca; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 121. In 2025 that was about 1 in 15,021 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Blanca ranked highest in Colorado in 2025, at #813 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Blanche (87,648 babies since 1880), Bianca (77,759 babies since 1880) and Albina (5,006 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Blanka are summarised on this page.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Spanish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.