Blanch

Last seen for girls in 1983 at #10,275 · Last seen for boys in 1932 at #3,092
Given to girls 99.5% of the time

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Peak · girls
1885 · 67 births
Debut · girls
29 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
6,420
since 1880

Blanch over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Blanch has never cracked the top 200 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201949peak #246, 1885girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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1952#1,89228—
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First appearance
1880

In the first year the SSA published name data, Blanch was already there! It came in at #288, and was given to 29 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1971–1980, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Blanch is popular in 1949

No state had 5 or more girls named Blanch in 1949, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Blanch
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1983
  • Biggest jump: 174 spots in 1935 (#966 → #792)
  • Biggest drop: 176 spots in 1936 (#792 → #968)
Rise & fade · girls
5 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1880
  • Peaked 1885 at #246 (67 births)
  • Births halved by 1944, 59 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 60 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 60 yrs · run 1880–1939
Share of babies · girls
1 in 1,986
  • Highest: 1 in 1,986 girls born in 1885 were named Blanch (0.05%)
  • Latest: 1 in 334,122 girls born in 1983 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1920s
  • 22.7% of all girls named Blanch (1,458) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s448#246 (1885)#302
1890s738#276 (1892)#328
1900s852#310 (1900)#367
1910s1,390#375 (1910)#477
1920s1,458#537 (1924)#598
1930s713#682 (1931)#830
1940s414#1,006 (1942)#1,334
1950s271#1,550 (1950)#2,094
1960s108#2,904 (1960)#4,440
1970s17#6,362 (1970)#8,140
1980s11#9,110 (1981)#9,693

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Blanch in 1949

girls
#1,807
28 births · 1 in 61,103 girls

Top girls' names in 1949

  1. #1Linda91,015
  2. #2Mary66,874
  3. #3Patricia46,324
  4. #4Barbara42,600
  5. #5Susan37,709
  6. #6Sandra30,643
  7. #7Nancy29,249
  8. #8Carol26,780
  9. #9Kathleen26,357
  10. #10Sharon25,713
  11. #1,807Blanch28
More about 1949

girls

1,710,877 girls got a published name in 1949; 1 in 61,103 of them was named Blanch, which outranked 70.2% of the 6,066 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Blanch
  1. #1,767Theressa29
  2. #1,767Wende29
  3. #1,767Willette29
  4. #1,807Blanch28
  5. #1,807Annita28
  6. #1,807Bari28
  7. #1,807Carolene28
  8. #1,845Adria27
  9. #1,845Albert27
  10. #1,845Bonna27

Tied with 37 names at #1,807; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1948
Risers
  1. ↑ 937Sharman#1,708 → #771
  2. ↑ 665Roseanna#1,422 → #757
  3. ↑ 483Shauna#1,173 → #690
  4. ↑ 293Jacalyn#1,116 → #823
  5. ↑ 267Sanjuana#1,185 → #918
Fallers
  1. ↓ 339Sandie#939 → #1,278
  2. ↓ 296Syble#955 → #1,251
  3. ↓ 272Shirleen#964 → #1,236
  4. ↓ 266Ginny#734 → #1,000
  5. ↓ 260Dina#861 → #1,121

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1949 →