Entry № 1534 · Latin origin

Blanca Blanca — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ BLAHN-kah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"White (Spanish + Blanca de Castilla Queen of France)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Spanish)

A name that means "white (spanish + blanca de castilla queen of france)".

Blanca is from the Spanish Blanca — Spanish rendition of Blanche — from the Old French blanc (white). Blanca is one of the Spanish + Catalan + Portuguese feminine names.

White (Spanish + Blanca de Castilla Queen of France) — a Latin name.

The name in its native script.

Blanca
Transliteration
Blanca
Pronunciation
/ ˈblɑːŋ.kə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Blanca stands.

Blanca 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.

Blancas before her.

Real people
Blanca de Castilla
Queen Consort of France + mother of Saint Louis IX.
1188 – 1252
In fiction
Blanca
Spanish white.

Names connected to Blanca.

The number behind Blanca.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Blanca reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.