Blanchard

Boys' name

White + hard, firm, brave, hardy

Blanchard has been given to 413 babies in the U.S. since 1883. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1917, with 18 recorded.

Babies named Blanchard, 1964

1 in 648,000

Blanchard over time, 1880–2025

Boys

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Blanchard: meaning, origin, and history

White + hard, firm, brave, hardy

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Blanchard means

Blanchard means “white + hard, firm, brave, hardy”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Blanchard is used in Germanic.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 413 boys were recorded with the name Blanchard between 1883 and 1964. Its highest annual count was 18 in 1917; its best national rank was #909 in 1883.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Blanchard?

Blanchard had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1964, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1964: 1 in 648,000; 6 of 3,887,460 births
Among boys only: 1 in 332,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 1964: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 449,098 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Blanchard sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1964 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 449,098 children born in 1964 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Blanchard. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Blanchards were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Blanchard was born before 1928 — so the typical Blanchard is around 97 today.

Median birth year: 1928; About 97 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 28.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 24.0%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 43; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 28.6% of all recorded uses (118).

Is Blanchard rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1917 (18)
Years since peak: 108; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 36.7% average annual change
Best rank ever: #909; 1883

Where Blanchard is used

Across 1910–2025, Blanchard was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 174,706 across all states with data.

11 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Louisiana1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Blanchard has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Blanchard around the world

Where Blanchard ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

France
1902–1959
#1,532
in 1959

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Blanchard by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #909; 1883
Peak year: 1917; 18 that year
First recorded: 1883
Last recorded: 1964
All-time count: 413
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Blanchard

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Blanchard

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

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For a brother

Regis Meyer Rosario Lyman Winfield Dorsey Granville Abe

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