Entry № 1467 · Italian origin

Bianca Bianca — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ bee-AHN-kah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Italian
Meaning
"White, fair"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Italian)

A name that means "white, fair".

Bianca is the Italian word for "white" — used as a name to mean "fair" or "pure." It is the Italian equivalent of Blanche (French) and Blanca (Spanish). The same Indo-European root gives English "blank."

Bianca has been used in Italy for centuries and is popular across the Italian-speaking world. Today the name sits in the U.S.

White, fair — a Italian name.

The name in its native script.

Bianca
Transliteration
Bianca
Pronunciation
/ ˈbjaŋ.ka /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Bianca stands.

Bianca does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Biancas before her.

Real people
Bianca Jagger
Nicaraguan human rights advocate; former wife of Mick Jagger.
born 1945
Bianca Andreescu
Canadian tennis player. Winner of the 2019 US Open.
born 2000
In fiction
Bianca
Character in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew.
1592 play

Names connected to Bianca.

The number behind Bianca.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Bianca reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.