Blandine

Girls' name

Flattery, compliment, through blandus

Blandine has been given to 17 babies in the U.S. since 1915. 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 1915, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Blandine, 1922

1 in 458,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Blandine: meaning, origin, and history

Flattery, compliment, through blandus

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Blandine means

Blandine belongs to the name family reached through Blandine → blandus. Its meaning is “flattery, compliment”.

Origin, language, and formation

Blandine is used in French.

Blandine comes through Latin blandus.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include blandus.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Blandine is pronounced /blɑ̃.din/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 17 girls were recorded with the name Blandine between 1915 and 1922. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1915; its best national rank was #3,840 in 1915.

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.

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How common is Blandine?

Blandine had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1922, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1922: 1 in 458,000; 5 of 2,289,103 births
Among girls only: 1 in 240,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1922: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 317,338 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Blandine 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 1922 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 317,338 children born in 1922 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Blandine. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Blandines were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Blandine was born before 1921 — so the typical Blandine is around 104 today.

Median birth year: 1921; About 104 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 64.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 0; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 64.7% of all recorded uses (11).

Is Blandine 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 1915 (6)
Years since peak: 110; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 16.7% average annual change
Best rank ever: #3,840; 1915

Spellings of Blandine

Blandine is not the most common spelling — Brandie is, with 53.8% against Blandine's 0.06%.

Brandie53.8%15,839
Claudine38.5%11,323
Blaine4.2%1,236
Brandice3.5%1,032
Blandine0.06%17

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.

Blandine around the world

Where Blandine 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
1900–2025
#1,182
in 2025
Canada
1999–2020
#3,347
in 2020

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

Blandine 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: #3,840; 1915
Peak year: 1915; 6 that year
First recorded: 1915
Last recorded: 1922
All-time count: 17
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Blandine

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

Blaklynn Blakelei Blainey Anyeline Blaikley Blaney Blakeney Skylaine Blakeslee Blaykelynn Blaine Blakelie Mazarine Blaykley Mcclaine Edaline Mclaine Blaykely Moiraine Jadeline Blakesley Medeline Yazzmine Hristine

Sibling names for Blandine

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

Golda Lauretta Era Leatha Leone Mayme Artie Alpha

For a brother

Gustave Waldo Orrin Winfield Dorsey Isadore Aloysius Hyman

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