Blanche
[blɑ̃ʃ]Meaning
from a medieval French nickname meaning "white, fair-coloured"
Background Story
Blanche comes from a medieval French nickname meaning "white, fair-coloured", a word whose cognates descend from the Germanic *blankaz. An early bearer was the 12th-century Blanca of Navarre, wife of Sancho III of Castile; her granddaughter of the same name married Louis VIII of France, after which the name became more common in France. It is used in Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Galician, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovene and French.
Variations
Blanch, Blanka
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