Blandina

Girls' name

Form of Blandine

Blandina has been given to 72 babies in the U.S. since 1889. 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 1916, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Blandina, 1958

1 in 827,000

Blandina over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Blandina: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Blandine

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Blandina means

Blandina is a form of Blandine.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Blandina is used in Ancient Roman.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Blandina → Blandine → blandus. The family’s meaning is “flattery, compliment”, recorded in Latin with the source elements blandus.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Blandine.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 72 girls were recorded with the name Blandina between 1889 and 1958. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1916; its best national rank was #1,158 in 1889.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Blandina?

Blandina had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1958, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1958: 1 in 827,000; 5 of 4,133,550 births
Among girls only: 1 in 402,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1958: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 573,033 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Blandina sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1958 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 573,033 children born in 1958 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Blandina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Blandinas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Blandina was born before 1927 — so the typical Blandina is around 98 today.

Median birth year: 1927; About 98 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 33.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 31.9%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 18; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 33.3% of all recorded uses (24).

Is Blandina 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 1916 (8)
Years since peak: 109; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 16.7% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,158; 1889

Spellings of Blandina

Blandina is not the most common spelling — Claudina is, with 88.0% against Blandina's 12.0%.

Claudina88.0%529
Blandina12.0%72

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Blandina around the world

Where Blandina 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
1926–1926
#1,118
in 1926
South Australia
1970–1970
#707
in 1970

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Blandina by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #1,158; 1889
Peak year: 1916; 8 that year
First recorded: 1889
Last recorded: 1958
All-time count: 72
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Blandina

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

Blaikley Blayklee Blaiklee Stellina Giorgina Sosefina Vitalina Emmelina Caralina Blaklee Madalina Blakleigh Blakelie Blaklynn Anyelina Willemina Adelaina Husaina Blakeney Blakeli Blayre Roselina Amelina Novalina

Sibling names for Blandina

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

Era Leatha Leone Artie Alpha Hettie Cecil Ona

For a brother

Winfield Dorsey Isadore Aloysius Hyman Regis Sydney Meyer

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