Bianka

Spellings & scripts●

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Bianka is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Polish given name42K records spelled Bianka49 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Poland, Czechia, United States, Ukraine

  Languages: Polish, Czech, Croatian

  Also written Bianca, Біанка, Бьянка, Бианка, Б’янка

• Albanian given name626 records spelled Bianka2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Albania, United States

  Also written Bíanka

• Turkish given name236 records spelled Bianka4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Türkiye, United States, Romania

  Also written Byanka

48 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Bianka is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In French, a female given name, variant of Blanche

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Latvian, Sievietes vārds

  as a word·Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 51 years between 1974–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Bianka Zazzob. 1915FRFrench psychologist (1915–2007)
• Bianka Eshel Gershunib. 1932ILIsraeli artist and jeweler (1932-2020)
• Bianka Minte-Königb. 1947DEGerman author
• Bianka Schwedeb. 1953DEEast German rower
• Bianka Panovab. 1970BGBulgarian rhythmic gymnast
• Bianka Zalewskab. 1979PLPolish journalist
• Bianka Lamadeb. 1982DEGerman tennis player
• Bianka Bušab. 1994RSSerbian volleyball player
• Bianka Nagyb. 2000HUHungarian canoeist
• Bianka Papb. 2000HUHungarian Paralympic swimmer

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 495 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Bianka?

We estimate roughly 33 thousand people bear Bianka (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.

In which country does Bianka have the most bearers?

Bianka is most frequently recorded in Germany, where it is most often spelled bianka.

Where is Bianka most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bianka is densest in Hungary — about 1 in 599 people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.

How common is Bianka compared with other names?

In Germany, Bianka is the 674th most common given name of 154,506 given names recorded there.

Is Bianka a male or female name?

Bianka is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Bianka mean?

Recorded meaning: From Italian Bianca.