Blanche
Blanche is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 8 births. Its best rank was 51st, in 1886.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 80.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 19172,836 births
- Best rank
- #51in 1886
- Since 1880
- 87,408people given the name
The story in the numbers
87,408 girls have been named Blanche in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1917, with 2,836 births — 0.26% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 8 births in 2024, against 2,836 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1917, and the 1910s alone account for 25%. It has spent 85 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 40 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Blanche | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 6,925 | |
| 1890s | 10,860 | |
| 1900s | 11,730 | |
| 1910s | 21,977 | |
| 1920s | 19,619 | |
| 1930s | 7,496 | |
| 1940s | 4,017 | |
| 1950s | 2,652 | |
| 1960s | 1,187 | |
| 1970s | 394 | |
| 1980s | 226 | |
| 1990s | 147 | |
| 2000s | 76 | |
| 2010s | 60 | |
| 2020s | 42 |
In 1917, its biggest year
Blanche was the 91st most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1917 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1917.
Names that rose and fell with Blanche
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Hilmapeak 1915
- Orphapeak 1917
- Pearlpeak 1918
- Myrtlepeak 1918
- Ethapeak 1920
- Oniepeak 1918
- Lottiepeak 1916
- Mamiepeak 1919
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.