Bianca
Bianca was given to 594 girls in 2025, #500 among girls’ names; 77,759 Americans have been recorded with it since 1905 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 76,000 Americans named Bianca and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 20 and 36.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bianca by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Bianca mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Bianca is “a female given name from Italian.”
From Italian Bianca, equivalent of English Blanche.
/biˈæŋkə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Bianca?
#500 among girls’ names, 2025
Bianca fell from #381 in 2015 to #500 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.48 to 0.37 per 1,000.
3,857 babies in 1991, the peak
Bianca peaked in 1991, when 3,857 babies were given it (3,844 girls, #89 among girls’ names). The 594 births of 2025 are 15% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 594 | #500 | 0.37 |
| 2024 | 681 | #462 | 0.42 |
| 2023 | 659 | #467 | 0.41 |
| 2022 | 747 | #423 | 0.46 |
| 2021 | 699 | #448 | 0.43 |
| 2020 | 726 | #420 | 0.45 |
| 2019 | 687 | #454 | 0.41 |
| 2018 | 769 | #404 | 0.45 |
| 2017 | 834 | #374 | 0.48 |
| 2016 | 853 | #386 | 0.48 |
Every recorded year (109)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 859 | #381 | 0.48 |
| 2014 | 907 | #361 | 0.51 |
| 2013 | 1,057 | #303 | 0.60 |
| 2012 | 1,028 | #313 | 0.58 |
| 2011 | 1,121 | #283 | 0.64 |
| 2010 | 1,178 | #280 | 0.66 |
| 2009 | 1,398 | #236 | 0.76 |
| 2008 | 1,652 | #205 | 0.87 |
| 2007 | 1,977 | #176 | 1.0 |
| 2006 | 1,941 | #183 | 1.0 |
| 2005 | 1,926 | #177 | 1.0 |
| 2004 | 1,986 | #172 | 1.1 |
| 2003 | 2,054 | #162 | 1.1 |
| 2002 | 1,954 | #169 | 1.1 |
| 2001 | 2,070 | #156 | 1.1 |
| 2000 | 1,956 | #170 | 1.1 |
| 1999 | 1,947 | #163 | 1.1 |
| 1998 | 2,019 | #157 | 1.1 |
| 1997 | 2,362 | #134 | 1.4 |
| 1996 | 2,523 | #123 | 1.4 |
| 1995 | 2,505 | #128 | 1.4 |
| 1994 | 2,932 | #111 | 1.6 |
| 1993 | 3,212 | #101 | 1.8 |
| 1992 | 3,385 | #97 | 1.8 |
| 1991 | 3,844 | #89 | 2.1 |
| 1990 | 3,829 | #84 | 2.0 |
| 1989 | 3,593 | #91 | 1.9 |
| 1988 | 2,637 | #108 | 1.5 |
| 1987 | 920 | #268 | 0.53 |
| 1986 | 831 | #294 | 0.48 |
| 1985 | 790 | #304 | 0.46 |
| 1984 | 664 | #347 | 0.39 |
| 1983 | 940 | #253 | 0.56 |
| 1982 | 775 | #314 | 0.46 |
| 1981 | 678 | #344 | 0.41 |
| 1980 | 634 | #369 | 0.38 |
| 1979 | 613 | #369 | 0.38 |
| 1978 | 593 | #357 | 0.39 |
| 1977 | 526 | #397 | 0.34 |
| 1976 | 393 | #473 | 0.27 |
| 1975 | 249 | #630 | 0.17 |
| 1974 | 183 | #762 | 0.12 |
| 1973 | 171 | #781 | 0.12 |
| 1972 | 98 | #1,127 | 0.06 |
| 1971 | 111 | #1,084 | 0.07 |
| 1970 | 104 | #1,127 | 0.06 |
| 1969 | 104 | #1,087 | 0.06 |
| 1968 | 81 | #1,210 | 0.05 |
| 1967 | 75 | #1,227 | 0.05 |
| 1966 | 51 | #1,571 | 0.03 |
| 1965 | 41 | #1,770 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 44 | #1,750 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 34 | #2,021 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 42 | #1,757 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 40 | #1,810 | 0.02 |
| 1960 | 48 | #1,616 | 0.02 |
| 1959 | 55 | #1,449 | 0.03 |
| 1958 | 40 | #1,703 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 43 | #1,640 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 27 | #2,106 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 33 | #1,842 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 20 | #2,454 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 32 | #1,758 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 34 | #1,685 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 20 | #2,250 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 20 | #2,191 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 17 | #2,420 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,235 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 14 | #2,774 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,695 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 8 | #3,414 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,630 | under 0.01 |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,779 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,597 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,744 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 10 | #2,708 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 12 | #2,511 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,632 | under 0.01 |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,719 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 15 | #2,297 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 12 | #2,718 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,367 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 9 | #3,393 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 9 | #3,428 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 11 | #2,939 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 11 | #2,980 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 10 | #3,191 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,070 | under 0.01 |
| 1919 | 18 | #1,996 | 0.02 |
| 1918 | 9 | #3,265 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 18 | #1,930 | 0.02 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,498 | under 0.01 |
| 1915 | 15 | #2,056 | 0.02 |
| 1914 | 8 | #2,660 | 0.01 |
| 1913 | 11 | #1,901 | 0.02 |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,022 | 0.01 |
| 1909 | 6 | #1,987 | 0.02 |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,109 | 0.02 |
| 1905 | 5 | #1,969 | 0.02 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Bianca a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Bianca has been given almost only to girls: 195 boys in 109 years of records.
Girls and boys named Bianca: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bianca, and how old are they?
76,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 77,759 Americans ever recorded as Bianca. The median Bianca alive today is 29 years old; half are between 20 and 36.
The 2020 Census counted 72,256 people named Bianca (72,131 women and girls, 125 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 72,458 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 20 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 465 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 3,810 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 33,400 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 28,300 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 10,000 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Bianca born?
The states with the most babies named Bianca are California, Florida and Texas, with 38% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 74 | #448 | 1.4× |
| Florida | 73 | #259 | 1.5× |
| Texas | 64 | #501 | 1.5× |
| New York | 42 | #413 | 1.3× |
| New Jersey | 28 | #296 | 1.2× |
| North Carolina | 25 | #444 | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 20 | #522 | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 18 | #547 | 1.2× |
| Massachusetts | 15 | #378 | 1.0× |
| Washington | 15 | #457 | 0.7× |
Where Bianca is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Bianca is most over-represented in Texas: since 1910 it was given 1.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Bianca with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 82,042 babies since 1880, Bianca is the most given (95% of them). In 2025 it was given to 594 of their 608 babies (98%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Bianca
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Bianca and names like it
- Compare Bianca and BiankaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sBianca peaked in 1991.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Bianca since 1910.
- Italian namesWiktionary’s origin for Bianca: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Bianca.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Bianca alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with BMost given first.