Feminine dossier · first seen 1880

Blanche

Name: SSA baby-name counts for Blanche
Creator: Social Security Administration

Endangered Down 99.7% from peak

Peak era

1917

Peak rank proxy

2,836

Current vitality

Rare

Generation

Greatest Generation

1880Peak 19172024

Peak year

1917

Decline from peak

99.7%

2024

All-time

87,408

Blanche once had enough force to mark a generation, but its current usage is a small remnant of that peak. The name still exists, yet now reads as a timestamp: personal, recognizable, and culturally receding.

Your name peaked in 1917, when 2,836 girls were named Blanche.

In 2024, only 8 girls were given the name.

Down 99.7% from its peak.

All told, about 87,408 Americans have been named Blanche and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1880.

Rarity score99th percentile rare

AssociationGreatest Generation

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryDown 99.7% from peak

19172,836 girls named Blanche

20248 girls named Blanche

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