Bianca

Where Bianca comes from

From Italian Bianca, equivalent of English Blanche.
— Wiktionary's entry for Bianca
  • Italian
  • 3 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1905
    First appearance
    #1,931 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1979
    Bianca Lawson born
    American actress
  3. 1990
    Peak, #84
    3,829 babies named Bianca — more than any year before or since.
  4. 2000
    Bianca Andreescu born
    Canadian tennis player
  5. 2008
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #205.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Italian.
Namesakes
  • Bianca Andreescu · Canadian tennis player, born 2000
  • Bianca Lawson · American actress, born 1979
  • Bianca Belair · American professional wrestler, born 1989
  • Bianca Knight · American sprinter, born 1989
  • Bianca Maria Visconti · Duchess of Milan from 1450 to 1468, 1425–1468

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.