Meaning and history
Bianca is the Italian cognate of Blanche. Shakespeare used the name for characters in The Taming of the Shrew (1593) and Othello (1603), and Freddy Breck’s 1973 song Bianca helped increase its popularity elsewhere in Europe.
20062006: 1,941 births, rank #183
2007: 1,977 births, rank #176
2008: 1,652 births, rank #205
2009: 1,398 births, rank #236
2010: 1,178 births, rank #280
20112011: 1,121 births, rank #283
2012: 1,028 births, rank #313
2013: 1,057 births, rank #303
2014: 907 births, rank #361
2015: 859 births, rank #380
20162016: 853 births, rank #386
2017: 834 births, rank #374
2018: 769 births, rank #404
2019: 687 births, rank #454
2020: 726 births, rank #420
20212021: 699 births, rank #448
2022: 747 births, rank #423
2023: 659 births, rank #467
2024: 681 births, rank #461
20252025: 594 births, rank #500
Bianca moved from #462 to #500 for girls between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 1991, with 3,844 births.