Blanca
Blanca was given to 107 girls in 2025, #1,857 among girls’ names; 25,653 Americans have been recorded with it since 1910 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 23,600 Americans named Blanca and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 40 years old and half are between 29 and 54.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Blanca by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Blanca mean?
Wiktionary, Spanish section
Blanca is “a female given name” Its etymology gives the sense “white” (blanco).
Medieval royal name from blanco (“white”), equivalent to French Blanche, English Blanche.
/ˈblanka/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Spanish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Blanca?
#1,857 among girls’ names, 2025
Blanca fell from #1,798 in 2015 to #1,857 in 2025 among girls’ names, although its share of girls born rose from 65.0 to 66.6 per million.
673 babies in 1990, the peak
Blanca peaked in 1990, when 673 babies were given it (662 girls, #393 among girls’ names). The 107 births of 2025 are 16% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 107 | #1,857 | 0.07 |
| 2024 | 106 | #1,884 | 0.07 |
| 2023 | 103 | #1,924 | 0.06 |
| 2022 | 107 | #1,885 | 0.07 |
| 2021 | 95 | #2,027 | 0.06 |
| 2020 | 102 | #1,885 | 0.06 |
| 2019 | 113 | #1,805 | 0.07 |
| 2018 | 102 | #1,941 | 0.06 |
| 2017 | 96 | #2,041 | 0.06 |
| 2016 | 121 | #1,731 | 0.07 |
Every recorded year (113)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 116 | #1,798 | 0.06 |
| 2014 | 130 | #1,645 | 0.07 |
| 2013 | 114 | #1,794 | 0.06 |
| 2012 | 151 | #1,492 | 0.09 |
| 2011 | 133 | #1,620 | 0.08 |
| 2010 | 185 | #1,288 | 0.10 |
| 2009 | 213 | #1,180 | 0.12 |
| 2008 | 258 | #1,018 | 0.14 |
| 2007 | 285 | #954 | 0.15 |
| 2006 | 342 | #797 | 0.18 |
| 2005 | 313 | #821 | 0.17 |
| 2004 | 285 | #861 | 0.16 |
| 2003 | 369 | #708 | 0.20 |
| 2002 | 348 | #712 | 0.19 |
| 2001 | 403 | #623 | 0.22 |
| 2000 | 389 | #643 | 0.21 |
| 1999 | 368 | #640 | 0.21 |
| 1998 | 416 | #581 | 0.24 |
| 1997 | 446 | #534 | 0.26 |
| 1996 | 453 | #519 | 0.26 |
| 1995 | 512 | #485 | 0.29 |
| 1994 | 521 | #478 | 0.29 |
| 1993 | 567 | #440 | 0.31 |
| 1992 | 607 | #417 | 0.33 |
| 1991 | 634 | #403 | 0.34 |
| 1990 | 662 | #393 | 0.35 |
| 1989 | 602 | #410 | 0.33 |
| 1988 | 471 | #482 | 0.26 |
| 1987 | 408 | #512 | 0.23 |
| 1986 | 429 | #498 | 0.25 |
| 1985 | 422 | #486 | 0.25 |
| 1984 | 381 | #512 | 0.23 |
| 1983 | 408 | #485 | 0.24 |
| 1982 | 450 | #468 | 0.27 |
| 1981 | 501 | #427 | 0.30 |
| 1980 | 493 | #436 | 0.30 |
| 1979 | 428 | #469 | 0.27 |
| 1978 | 432 | #459 | 0.28 |
| 1977 | 430 | #459 | 0.28 |
| 1976 | 478 | #424 | 0.33 |
| 1975 | 456 | #433 | 0.31 |
| 1974 | 448 | #432 | 0.31 |
| 1973 | 395 | #465 | 0.27 |
| 1972 | 379 | #474 | 0.25 |
| 1971 | 394 | #488 | 0.24 |
| 1970 | 364 | #524 | 0.21 |
| 1969 | 346 | #529 | 0.21 |
| 1968 | 314 | #543 | 0.19 |
| 1967 | 276 | #570 | 0.17 |
| 1966 | 260 | #587 | 0.15 |
| 1965 | 249 | #618 | 0.14 |
| 1964 | 275 | #604 | 0.15 |
| 1963 | 286 | #586 | 0.15 |
| 1962 | 303 | #565 | 0.15 |
| 1961 | 284 | #598 | 0.14 |
| 1960 | 298 | #568 | 0.15 |
| 1959 | 276 | #596 | 0.14 |
| 1958 | 316 | #544 | 0.16 |
| 1957 | 258 | #607 | 0.13 |
| 1956 | 287 | #553 | 0.14 |
| 1955 | 285 | #544 | 0.15 |
| 1954 | 265 | #546 | 0.14 |
| 1953 | 284 | #509 | 0.15 |
| 1952 | 211 | #597 | 0.11 |
| 1951 | 201 | #606 | 0.11 |
| 1950 | 191 | #603 | 0.11 |
| 1949 | 127 | #764 | 0.07 |
| 1948 | 77 | #992 | 0.05 |
| 1947 | 72 | #1,047 | 0.04 |
| 1946 | 55 | #1,150 | 0.04 |
| 1945 | 48 | #1,132 | 0.04 |
| 1944 | 44 | #1,187 | 0.03 |
| 1943 | 26 | #1,667 | 0.02 |
| 1942 | 28 | #1,560 | 0.02 |
| 1941 | 26 | #1,542 | 0.02 |
| 1940 | 30 | #1,374 | 0.03 |
| 1939 | 34 | #1,267 | 0.03 |
| 1938 | 22 | #1,655 | 0.02 |
| 1937 | 25 | #1,502 | 0.02 |
| 1936 | 25 | #1,483 | 0.02 |
| 1935 | 38 | #1,138 | 0.04 |
| 1934 | 26 | #1,445 | 0.02 |
| 1933 | 25 | #1,478 | 0.02 |
| 1932 | 26 | #1,489 | 0.02 |
| 1931 | 19 | #1,806 | 0.02 |
| 1930 | 30 | #1,407 | 0.03 |
| 1929 | 26 | #1,528 | 0.02 |
| 1928 | 17 | #2,098 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 19 | #2,029 | 0.02 |
| 1926 | 17 | #2,170 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 16 | #2,294 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,694 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 12 | #2,751 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 20 | #1,964 | 0.02 |
| 1921 | 10 | #3,194 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 15 | #2,367 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 9 | #3,243 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,544 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 9 | #3,124 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 12 | #2,516 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,473 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 7 | #2,926 | 0.01 |
| 1910 | 6 | #2,175 | 0.02 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Blanca a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Blanca has been given almost only to girls: 126 boys in 113 years of records.
Girls and boys named Blanca: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Blanca, and how old are they?
23,600 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 92% of the 25,653 Americans ever recorded as Blanca. The median Blanca alive today is 40 years old; half are between 29 and 54.
The 2020 Census counted 91,179 people named Blanca (90,984 women and girls, 195 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 23,514 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.9 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 167 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 3,490 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5,740 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 7,900 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,850 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,400 |
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 Blanca born?
The states with the most babies named Blanca are California, Texas and Florida, with 77% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 23 | #1,116 | 2.8× |
| Texas | 21 | #1,230 | 4.0× |
| Florida | 9 | #1,456 | 0.6× |
| Colorado | 6 | #813 | 0.6× |
| New York | 5 | #2,143 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,490 | 0.0× |
Where Blanca is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Blanca is most over-represented in Texas: since 1910 it was given 4.0 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 Blanca 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 25,726 babies since 1880, Blanca is the most given (100% of them). In 2025 it was given to 107 of their 107 babies (100%), 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 Blanca
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 Blanca and names like it
- Compare Blanca and BlankaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sBlanca peaked in 1990.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Blanca since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Blanca: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Blanca.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Blanca alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with BMost given first.