as a First Name
Italian: from bianca ‘white’ (i.e. ‘pure’, but see also Blanche). The name was used by Shakespeare for characters in two of his plays set in an Italian context: the mild-mannered sister of Katharina, the ‘shrew’ in The Taming of the Shrew, and a courtesan in Othello. It came to prominence in the 1970s as the name of Bianca Jagger, the Nicaraguan fashion model, peace worker, and diplomat, who was for a time married to the rock singer Mick Jagger. Since then it has been used increasingly in the English-speaking world.
| 1,061st in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 25,487
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- 63,296
- if you include dead people (since the government started keeping track)
- District of Columbia
- has the most people named Bianca per capita
- 1991
- marked the height of its popularity
99.93%
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55+
7%
30-54
30-54
43%
13-29
13-29
49%
0-12
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