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Blanka

Girls' name

White, through Blanca

Blanka has been given to 73 babies in the U.S. since 1981. 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 1994, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Blanka, 2017

1 in 715,000

Blanka over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Blanka: meaning, origin, and history

White, through Blanca

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Blanka means

Blanka belongs to the name family reached through Blanka → Blanca. Its meaning is “white”.

Origin, language, and formation

Blanka is used in Czech, Hungarian, Old Czech, Polish and Slovak.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Blanche and Blanca.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Czech, Blanka is pronounced [ˈblaŋka].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 73 girls were recorded with the name Blanka between 1981 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1994; its best national rank was #8,895 in 1994.

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 Blanka?

Blanka had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2017
1 in 715,000
5 of 3,577,106 births
Among girls only
1 in 345,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2017
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
495,893 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Blanka 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 2017 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 495,893 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Blanka. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Blankas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Blanka was born before 1998 — so the typical Blanka is around 27 today.

Median birth year
1998
About 27 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
34.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
69.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
73
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 34.2% of all recorded uses (25).

Is Blanka 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
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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 1994 (9)
Years since peak
31
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#8,895
1994

Spellings of Blanka

Blanka is not the most common spelling — Bianca is, with 24.7% against Blanka's 0.02%.

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.

Blanka around the world

Where Blanka 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.

  • England & Wales
    2007–2025
    #3,333
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2009–2025
    #780
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2014–2019
    #424
    in 2019
  • Ireland
    2008–2023
    #856
    in 2023
  • France
    2009–2020
    #7,683
    in 2020

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Blanka 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
#8,895
1994
Peak year
1994
9 that year
First recorded
1981
Last recorded
2017
All-time count
73
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Blanka

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

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Sibling names for Blanka

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

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