Blanka

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Blanca in US United States, EC Ecuador, ES Spain and 5 more and Бланка in UA Ukraine, RU Russia.

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 8 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◐

Blanka is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish given name4.1K records spelled Blanka7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Mexico, United States, Spain, Colombia

  Also written Blänkä, Blankå, Blankà, Blänkâ, Blånkå

• Norwegian Bokmål given name633 records spelled Blanka7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Sweden

  Languages: Norwegian Bokmål, Danish, Icelandic

  Also written Blånķa, Blaanķa

40 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●

Blanka is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Czech, a female given name, equivalent to English Blanche

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

• In Swedish, Namnet Blanka har övertagits från spanskan (blanco, -a ’vit’) men kommer ursprungligen från germanskt språk, jfr forn- och medelhögtyskt blanc ’vit, glänsande; vacker’. En fransk och engelsk form är Blanche. En bekant namnbärare var drottning Blanka av Namur (död 1363), gift med kung Magnus Eriksson. Hon har blivit ihågkommen genom barnramsan Rida, rida ranka – hästen heter Blanka.

  as a name·Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

• In German, ) Bianca: aus dem Spanischen stammender weibl. Vom. (span, blanco, -a »weiß«, das aus dem Germanischen stammt, vgl. ahd., mhd. blanc »weiß, glänzend; schön«). Blanka fand als exotischer, wohl­ klingender Name seit der Mitte des 19. Jh.s eine gewisse Verbreitung.

  as a name·DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

• In Russian, Blanka Mariia, second wife of Maksimilian. 1494.

  as a word·A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

• In zlw-ocs, diminutive of blána

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

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●

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Blanka Telekib. 1806HUHungarian painter, pioneer of women's education (1806–1862)
• Archduchess Margaretha of Austriab. 1894UAnot in their usual nameAustro-Tuscan Imperial and Royal (1894-1986)
• Blanka Péchyb. 1894HUHungarian writer, actress (1894–1988)
• Blanka Bohdanováb. 1930CZCzech actress and painter
• Blanka Heirmanb. 1941BEBelgian actress (born 1941)
• Blanka Paulůb. 1954CZCzech runner, ski runner, local politician and educator
• Blanka Vlašićb. 1983HRCroatian high jumper
• Blanka Lipińskab. 1985PLPolish writer
• Blanka Stajkowb. 1999PLPolish singer and model
• Kata Blanka Vasb. 2001HUHungarian cyclist

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 · 187 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Blanka?

We estimate roughly 366 thousand people bear Blanka (counting its spellings and scripts) across 14 countries in our records.

In which country does Blanka have the most bearers?

We estimate about 91 thousand people bear Blanka in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled blanca.

Where is Blanka most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Blanka is densest in the Czechia — about 1 in 170 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.

How common is Blanka compared with other names?

In the Czechia, Blanka is the 78th most common given name of 28,899 given names recorded there.

Is Blanka a male or female name?

Blanka 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 Blanka mean?

Recorded meaning: cop, merlon (any of the upright projections between the embrasures of a battlement)