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The first name 
Blanche

Blanche is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.

Blanche – a very rare name!

Recently, the name Blanche has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one girl in 100,000 has been named Blanche. That means that a girl named Blanche is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name her whole life. In the entire USA, approximately 54,952 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Blanche. That is 0.02 % of all living Americans.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Blanche

Blanche has 7 letters 
and begins with a B

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: 3.2% of all common girls' names in the US begin with a B. This means that B as the first letter for girls' names is neither particularly common nor rare. The most common first letters of girls' names are A, S and M, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of girls' names.

With seven letters, the name Blanche has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

Thus, if 3.2% of all girls’ names start with a B, this initial letter is slightly less common than all other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are girls' names with B that are quite common in the U.S., the most common at present is Barbara.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Blanche

If your name is Blanche and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Blanche

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Blanche, you can simply say:

Butterfly

Lion

Apple

Nut

Cat

Hat

Elephant

This is how the name Blanche is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Blanche in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Blanche

Blanche

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Blanche

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Blanche is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

B
L
A
N
C
H
E

Have you ever waved the name Blanche

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

B
L
A
N
C
H
E

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Blanche sounds like this: