Name: Blanche
Gender: Female
Usage: Blanche, of anglo-saxon origin, is a popular first name. It is more often used as a girl (female) name.
People having the name Blanche are in general originating from Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States of America.
Variants: For another variant of the name Blanche across the world, see Bianca.
Meaning: The meaning of the name Blanche is: White.
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The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 9. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: humanitarian, self-sacrificing, idealistic, giving, altruist, devoted, romantic.
Interpretation:
Qualities: Compassionate, Idealistic
Ruling planet: Mars
Colors: Red
Gemstones: Bloodstone
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The name Blanche is ranked on the 4,297th position of the most used names. It means that this name is commonly used.
We estimate that there are at least 74500 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.002% of the population. The name Blanche has seven characters. It means that it is relatively medium-length, compared to the other names in our database.
The graph below represents the number of people who were given the name Blanche for each year since 1900 in the U.S.A.:
The name day of Blanche is 1 December.
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History and Origin
Blanche is a feminine given name. It means "white", in French(with the meaning of "pure") , derived from the Late Latin word "blancus",(English and French: Blanche; Italian: Bianca; Spanish: Blanca; Portuguese: Branca).
It became common in the last medieval centuries in the Western European cultural sphere. Apparently the name, possibly invented at that time, received a boost when king García Ramírez of Navarre and his French-born wife Marguerite de L'Aigle named one of their daughters Blanca. Many of their descendants, who rapidly spread to royal families all around Western Europe, named one of their daughters Blanche.
The name's popularity might be related to aesthetic concepts current at the time, whereby "a skin white as milk" was considered as an ultimate mark of female beauty. Such idealised depictions of beautiful women - of beautiful princesses in particular - are attested in numerous works of prose and poetry of this period.
The Welsh female name "Gwen" also means "White". One of the theories for the origin of Spanish "Elvira" is that it is derived from the same word in Arabic.
French and English: originally a nickname for a blonde, from blanche, feminine of Old French blanc white (of Germanic origin). It came to be associated with the notion of whiteness as indicating purity, and was introduced into England as a given name by the Normans. A pale complexion combined with light hair has long been an ideal of beauty in Europe (cf. modern English fair, which at first meant ‘beautiful’ and then, from the 16th century, ‘light in colouring’).
Cognates: Italian: Bianca. Spanish: Blanca. Polish, Czech: Blanka.
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