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Bianca

Gender
Girl
Say it
bee-ANG-ka
Origin
Italian
UK rank, 2025
#582 for girls
US rank, 2025
#500 for girls

Bianca is a girls' name of Italian origin, meaning “white”. In 2025 it ranked 582nd for girls in the UK (73 babies) and 500th for girls in the US (594 babies).

What does Bianca mean?

Italian

“white”

Shakespeare used it for Katherina's younger sister in The Taming of the Shrew.

More on Wiktionary.

Is Bianca a girl's or a boy's name?

Bianca is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 73 girls in the UK and 594 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Bianca in the UK?

Rank in 2025
#582among girls
Babies in 2025
73about 1 in 3,800 girls
Five-year trend
Fallingdown 34% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 73 girls in the UK were named Bianca, making it the 582nd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 425th. Its busiest year was 2017, with 116 girls.

Half of all the girls named Bianca in the UK since 1996 were born between 2008 and 2019. It was already well used in 1996, when the records begin, so earlier girls aren't counted.

In 2025, 91 girls in the UK were given Bianca or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #479, up from #582 for this spelling alone.

Among girls in 2025, it was 542nd in England and Wales.

1996Busiest: 116 in 20172025
Bianca in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202573#582
202471#595
202377#548
202294#487
2021103#463
2020111#425
2019109#432
2018114#427
2017116#423
2016115#431
201589#527
2014113#428
2013100#462
201294#510
201197#482
201086#525
200975#569
200878#542
200765#607
200657#638
200548#698
200459#580
200335#823
200223#1,053
200119#1,155
200025#954
199929#837
199830#837
199758#527
199667#477

How popular is Bianca in the US?

Rank in 2025
#500among girls
Babies in 2025
594about 1 in 2,700 girls
Five-year trend
Steadydown 11% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 594 girls in the US were named Bianca, making it the 500th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 420th. Its busiest year was 1991, with 3,844 girls. It first appears in the records in 1905.

2025 had fewer girls named Bianca than any year since 1978.

Half of all the girls named Bianca in the US since 1880 were born between 1990 and 2006, the years shaded on the chart below.

1905Busiest: 3,844 in 19912025
Bianca in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
2025594#500
2024681#461
2023659#467
2022747#423
2021699#448
2020726#420
2019687#454
2018769#404
2017834#374
2016853#386
2015859#380
2014907#361
20131,057#303
20121,028#313
20111,121#283
20101,178#280
20091,398#236
20081,652#205
20071,977#176
20061,941#183
20051,926#177
20041,986#172
20032,054#162
20021,954#169
20012,070#156
20001,956#170
19991,947#163
19982,019#157
19972,362#134
19962,523#123
19952,505#128
19942,932#111
19933,212#101
19923,385#97
19913,844#89
19903,829#84
19893,593#91
19882,637#108
1987920#268
1986831#294
1985790#304
1984664#347
1983940#253
1982775#314
1981678#344
1980634#369
1979613#369
1978593#357
1977526#397
1976393#473
1975249#630
1974183#762
1973171#781
197298#1,127
1971111#1,084
1970104#1,126
1969104#1,087
196881#1,210
196775#1,227
196651#1,568
196541#1,768
196444#1,747
196334#2,014
196242#1,756
196140#1,806
196048#1,616
195955#1,449
195840#1,702
195743#1,640
195627#2,102
195533#1,838
195420#2,449
195332#1,757
195234#1,679
195120#2,244
195020#2,184
194917#2,409
19487#4,203
194714#2,768
19468#3,664
19458#3,386
19445#4,572
19430–
19427#3,736
19417#3,557
19400–
19390–
19380–
19370–
19366#3,699
19350–
19340–
193310#2,687
193212#2,488
19310–
19305#4,548
19297#3,680
192815#2,283
192712#2,698
19266#4,304
19259#3,361
19249#3,391
192311#2,916
192211#2,956
192110#3,163
19205#4,973
191918#1,989
19189#3,243
191718#1,922
19165#4,415
191515#2,049
19148#2,637
191311#1,883
19125#2,977
19110–
19100–
19096#1,957
19080–
19075#2,060
19060–
19055#1,930

Names like Bianca

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Fatima Athena Sienna Aria Bella Alina Elena Lara Aurora Eliana Gabriella Liana

Other spellings of Bianca

Bianka

Names related to Bianca

Biannca Byanca Bionca

More Italian names

Enzo Kiara Gemma Ariyah Milani Ariya Armani Siena Ariah Capri Kara Emiliana Jemma Alfredo Nella Allegra

Every Italian name

Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Bianca: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/bianca, updated 20 October 2026.