Blanch
Blanch is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 246th, in 1885.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1924181 births
- Best rank
- #246in 1885
- Since 1880
- 6,420people given the name
The story in the numbers
6,420 girls have been named Blanch in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1924, with 181 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 181 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1918, and the 1920s alone account for 23%. It has spent 60 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Blanch | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 448 | |
| 1890s | 738 | |
| 1900s | 852 | |
| 1910s | 1,390 | |
| 1920s | 1,458 | |
| 1930s | 713 | |
| 1940s | 414 | |
| 1950s | 271 | |
| 1960s | 108 | |
| 1970s | 17 | |
| 1980s | 11 |
In 1924, its biggest year
Blanch was the 537th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1924 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Betty and Margaret. See all of 1924.
Names that rose and fell with Blanch
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Artiepeak 1916
- Pearlpeak 1918
- Olliepeak 1919
- Valliepeak 1915
- Myrtlepeak 1918
- Electapeak 1918
- Orphapeak 1917
- Blanchepeak 1917
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.