Blanch
Blanch was last recorded in 1983, when 5 babies were given it; 6,450 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 1983 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Blanch by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Blanch mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Blanch is “a female given name from French, a less common spelling of Blanche.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Blanch?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #10,437, in 1983; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
181 babies in 1924, the peak
Blanch peaked in 1924, when 181 girls were given it, #537 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | 5 | #10,437 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,242 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,435 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 5 | #8,898 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,428 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,016 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,318 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,504 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,219 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,222 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (95)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | 8 | #5,044 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 12 | #3,818 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 15 | #3,301 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 15 | #3,330 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 18 | #2,908 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 22 | #2,462 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 16 | #2,979 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 24 | #2,280 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 22 | #2,395 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 35 | #1,774 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 30 | #1,910 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 26 | #2,020 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 28 | #1,894 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 32 | #1,705 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 36 | #1,551 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 28 | #1,808 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 28 | #1,782 | 0.02 |
| 1947 | 43 | #1,414 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 41 | #1,359 | 0.03 |
| 1945 | 40 | #1,262 | 0.03 |
| 1944 | 33 | #1,403 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 48 | #1,169 | 0.03 |
| 1942 | 60 | #1,006 | 0.04 |
| 1941 | 43 | #1,135 | 0.04 |
| 1940 | 50 | #1,012 | 0.04 |
| 1939 | 56 | #939 | 0.05 |
| 1938 | 61 | #905 | 0.06 |
| 1937 | 70 | #819 | 0.07 |
| 1936 | 50 | #969 | 0.05 |
| 1935 | 73 | #793 | 0.07 |
| 1934 | 51 | #967 | 0.05 |
| 1933 | 65 | #827 | 0.06 |
| 1932 | 95 | #694 | 0.09 |
| 1931 | 96 | #682 | 0.09 |
| 1930 | 96 | #706 | 0.09 |
| 1929 | 95 | #721 | 0.09 |
| 1928 | 125 | #629 | 0.11 |
| 1927 | 142 | #594 | 0.12 |
| 1926 | 140 | #599 | 0.12 |
| 1925 | 160 | #565 | 0.13 |
| 1924 | 181 | #537 | 0.14 |
| 1923 | 137 | #629 | 0.11 |
| 1922 | 151 | #584 | 0.13 |
| 1921 | 163 | #560 | 0.13 |
| 1920 | 164 | #562 | 0.14 |
| 1919 | 164 | #534 | 0.15 |
| 1918 | 155 | #572 | 0.13 |
| 1917 | 167 | #516 | 0.15 |
| 1916 | 168 | #499 | 0.16 |
| 1915 | 175 | #465 | 0.18 |
| 1914 | 132 | #478 | 0.17 |
| 1913 | 124 | #443 | 0.20 |
| 1912 | 94 | #492 | 0.17 |
| 1911 | 103 | #398 | 0.25 |
| 1910 | 108 | #375 | 0.27 |
| 1909 | 79 | #410 | 0.23 |
| 1908 | 67 | #440 | 0.20 |
| 1907 | 103 | #344 | 0.32 |
| 1906 | 67 | #416 | 0.23 |
| 1905 | 94 | #348 | 0.32 |
| 1904 | 90 | #343 | 0.33 |
| 1903 | 72 | #376 | 0.27 |
| 1902 | 101 | #314 | 0.38 |
| 1901 | 66 | #370 | 0.28 |
| 1900 | 113 | #311 | 0.38 |
| 1899 | 83 | #329 | 0.36 |
| 1898 | 73 | #367 | 0.28 |
| 1897 | 68 | #354 | 0.29 |
| 1896 | 69 | #349 | 0.29 |
| 1895 | 72 | #336 | 0.31 |
| 1894 | 72 | #329 | 0.32 |
| 1893 | 88 | #286 | 0.41 |
| 1892 | 93 | #276 | 0.44 |
| 1891 | 58 | #332 | 0.31 |
| 1890 | 62 | #322 | 0.33 |
| 1889 | 53 | #342 | 0.30 |
| 1888 | 62 | #303 | 0.35 |
| 1887 | 49 | #307 | 0.34 |
| 1886 | 63 | #263 | 0.44 |
| 1885 | 67 | #246 | 0.50 |
| 1884 | 43 | #293 | 0.33 |
| 1883 | 28 | #336 | 0.25 |
| 1882 | 27 | #343 | 0.25 |
| 1881 | 27 | #302 | 0.29 |
| 1880 | 29 | #289 | 0.32 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Blanch a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Blanch has been given almost only to girls: 30 boys in 95 years of records.
Girls and boys named Blanch: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Blanch, and how old are they?
An estimated 730 Americans named Blanch and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (11% of everyone recorded); the median is 78 years old and half are between 70 and 86. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 767 people named Blanch (742 women and girls, 25 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,077 born in the U.S. The Census count is 29% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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 Blanch born?
The states with the most babies named Blanch are North Carolina, Virginia and South Carolina, with 36% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Virginia and South Carolina are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | 392 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| Virginia | 243 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| South Carolina | 242 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| Tennessee | 211 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Texas | 180 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 171 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 139 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Kentucky | 123 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| West Virginia | 111 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Mississippi | 94 | not ranked | 1.0× |
Where Blanch is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Blanch is most over-represented in North Carolina: since 1910 it was given 2.5 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 Blanch with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Blanch
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 Blanch and names like it
- Compare Blanch and MyrtleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sBlanch peaked in 1924.
- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Blanch since 1910.
- The top names of 1924The year the most babies were named Blanch.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Blanch alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with BMost given first.