Blanca

Where Blanca comes from

Blanca hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1910
    First appearance
    #2,140 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1988
    Blanca Suárez born
    Spanish actress
  3. 1989
    Blanca Paloma born
    Spanish singer
  4. 1990
    Peak, #393
    662 babies named Blanca — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2004
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #861.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Blanca Suárez · Spanish actress, born 1988
  • Blanca Paloma · Spanish singer, born 1989
  • Blanca Fernández Ochoa · Spanish alpine skier, 1963–2019
  • Blanca Portillo · Spanish actress, born 1963
  • Blanca Soto · Mexican actress and model, born 1979

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.