Bianco
Bianco was last recorded in 1994, when 6 babies were given it; 80 Americans have been recorded with it between 1973 and 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bianco by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Bianco mean?
Wiktionary, Italian section
Bianco is “a male given name, feminine equivalent Bianca especially popular in Tuscany”
/ˈbjan.ko/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Italian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Bianco?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,951, in 1994; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
15 babies in 1988, the peak
Bianco peaked in 1988, when 15 girls were given it, #5,351 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 6 | #11,951 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 7 | #10,732 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | 9 | #8,813 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,480 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,318 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,004 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,351 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,429 | under 5 | |
| 1973 | under 5 | 9 | #3,474 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Bianco a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 80 Americans recorded as Bianco, 89% are girls and 11% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Bianco: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bianco, and how old are they?
An estimated 77 Americans named Bianco and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 128 people named Bianco (79 women and girls, 49 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 78 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 81,763 babies since 1880, Bianco is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 608 babies recorded by SSA was a Bianco (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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.
More about Bianco and names like it
- Compare Bianco and BiancaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sBianco peaked in 1988.
- Italian namesWiktionary’s origin for Bianco: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1988The year the most babies were named Bianco.
- Names starting with BMost given first.