Girls' name · peaked in 1884

Blanche name popularity since 1925

24,206 babies born in the US from 1925 to 2025 were named Blanche. Half of them were born in 1934 or earlier, so the typical Blanche is about 92 years old in 2026. Blanche peaked in 1884 as the #52 name for girls, and it was outside the top 1,000 in 2025.

US babies since 1925: 24,206; Named Blanche, 1925–2025
Peak year: 1884; #52 for girls that year
Typical age: About 92; Median birth year 1934
In 2025: Not top 1,000; #6,892 for girls in 2025
Girls / boys: 99.7% girls; 24,136 girls · 70 boys
Most popular in: South Carolina; 2.50× its national share

Peak year is the year Blanche made up the largest share of US girls, in records going back to 1880. Typical age is based on births from 1925 on, not on who is living today.

Blanche births per year, 1925–2025

The biggest year on this chart was 1925. Measured as a share of all babies, Blanche peaked earlier, in 1884.

Steepest fall: Between 1953 and 1958, Blanche's share of baby girls fell by 46%, from 1 in 5,600 to 1 in 10,300.

Shaded on the chart. This compares Blanche's share of all US girls five years apart, counting only years with at least 100 babies named Blanche.

Decade by decade

Babies named Blanche in each decade, and its rank among girls' names in the middle year of the decade (1935, 1945 … 2025).

Decade	Girls	Boys	Rank
1925–29	7,822	22	–
1930s	7,496	43	#231
1940s	4,017	5	#366
1950s	2,652	0	#615
1960s	1,187	0	#1,005
1970s	394	0	#2,140
1980s	226	0	#3,522
1990s	147	0	#7,579
2000s	76	0	#12,006
2010s	60	0	Under 5
2020–25	59	0	#6,892

Ranks count every name given to at least 5 girls that year, so they can go past 1,000. "Under 5" means fewer than 5 girls got the name.

Generation fingerprint

52.9% of babies named Blanche from 1925 to 2025 were born in the Silent Generation years (1928–1945). The full split by generation:

Where Blanche is most popular

The index compares Blanche's share of babies in each state with its share nationwide, 1925–2025 (1.50× = 50% more common). States with at least 300 babies named Blanche.

State	Index	Babies
South Carolina	2.50×	763
Virginia	2.02×	990
North Carolina	2.00×	1,231
West Virginia	2.00×	383
Pennsylvania	1.88×	2,074

Names with a similar story

Of the other 1999 names on this site, these six had the share of babies closest in shape to Blanche's from 1925 to 2025, however common each one got. Each line is scaled to its own high; the dashed line is Blanche.

Names from the same era

Other common names that peaked within two years of Blanche (1884).

Source: U.S. Social Security Administration national and state baby-name data, which covers names given to at least 5 babies of one sex in a year. About the data