Blanca

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Female Female Name

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian

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Origin and Meaning

Late Latin/Old French name deriving from the Old High German word blanc = 'white, beautiful' (see also -a) [1] [2] [3]

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Related Names

Blanca
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Norwegian Swedish
Blanche
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Swedish
Blanka
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Finish Icelandic Norwegian Swedish

See also Alba, Bianca, Blake

Combinations

Name
Element    
Example
Flora see Blancheflor

Further Information

Pronunciation

In Norwegian, the name used to be pronounced BLUN-sah, but is now pronounced BLUN-kah [2]

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[4]
293 473 293 473 0 0
Denmark Denmark[5]
65
n.a.
65
n.a.
0
n.a.
Finland Finland[6]
n.a.
75
n.a.
75 0 0
Iceland Iceland[7]
7 8
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[8]
71
n.a.
71
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[9]
0 0
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Blanca.


References

  1. Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. 2.0 2.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  4. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  5. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  6. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  7. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  8. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  9. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/