Bianca

See also: bianca

English

Etymology

From Italian Bianca, equivalent of English Blanche.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /biˈæŋkə/, /biˈɑŋkə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Proper noun

Bianca (countable and uncountable, plural Biancas)

1. A female given name from Italian.
   • c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

     Sweet Bianca! Happy man be his dole! He that runs fastest gets the ring.

   • 2024 November 27, Jessie Yeung and Isaac Yee, “Laos detains foreign hostel staff over backpacker methanol poisonings as families and travelers demand answers”, in CNN‎^[1], archived from the original on 19 December 2024:

     The bodies of 19-year-old best friends Holly Bowles and Bianca Jones were returned to Australia on Tuesday night.

2. A surname from Italian.
3. (astronomy) A moon of Uranus.

Translations

female given name

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 比安卡 (Bǐānkǎ)

• Danish: Bianca c
• French: Bianca (fr), Bianka (fr), Blanche (fr) f
• German: Bianca (de) f, Bianka f
• Hungarian: Bianka (hu)
• Italian: Bianca (it) f
• Japanese: ビアンカ (ja) (Bianka)
• Korean: 비앙카 (biangka)
• Polish: Bianka (pl) f
• Portuguese: Bianca (pt) f
• Romanian: Bianca f
• Russian: Биáнка f (Biánka)
• Slovak: Bianka f
• Spanish: Bianca (es) f
• Swedish: Bianca (sv)

moon of Uranus

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 天衛八 / 天卫八 (Tiānwèibā)

• Japanese: ビアンカ (ja) (Bianka)
• Polish: Bianka (pl) f
• Russian: Биáнка f (Biánka)

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Bianca is the 38640^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 572 individuals. Bianca is most common among White (89.86%) individuals.

See also

• Blanche

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Bianca”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 154.

Anagrams

• Abanic, Bacani

Danish

Etymology

Recently borrowed from Italian Bianca.

Proper noun

Bianca

1. a female given name

French

Etymology

Recently borrowed from Italian Bianca.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bjɑ̃.ka/

• Audio (France):

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Proper noun

Bianca f

1. a female given name, variant of Blanche

German

Alternative forms

• Bianka

Etymology

Recently borrowed from Italian Bianca.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /biˈaŋka/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

  (file)

Proper noun

Bianca

1. a female given name

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian Bianca.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbi(j)aŋka/, /ˈbj-/

Proper noun

Bianca

1. a female given name from Italian, equivalent to English Blanche

   Bianca Astrid Hello, b. 2001

Italian

Etymology

From bianca, feminine singular form of bianco (“white”, adjective).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbjan.ka/
• Rhymes: -anka
• Hyphenation: Biàn‧ca

Proper noun

Bianca f

1. a female given name, masculine equivalent Bianco, equivalent to English Blanche

Descendants

• → English: Bianca
• → Danish: Bianca
• → German: Bianca
• → Portuguese: Bianca

Proper noun

Bianca m or f by sense

1. a surname originating as a matronymic

Coordinate terms

• Bianco

Further reading

• Bianca (nome) on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it

Anagrams

• bancai, cabina

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian Bianca. Doublet of branca and Branca.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /biˈɐ̃.kɐ/, (faster) /ˈbjɐ̃.kɐ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈbjɐ̃.kɐ/

• Hyphenation: Bi‧an‧ca

Proper noun

Bianca f (plural Biancas)

1. a female given name from Italian

Derived terms

• Bia

Romanian

Etymology

Recently borrowed from Italian Bianca.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Bianca f

1. a female given name

Spanish

Etymology

Recently borrowed from Italian Bianca.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbjanka/ [ˈbjãŋ.ka]
• Rhymes: -anka
• Syllabification: Bian‧ca

Proper noun

Bianca f

1. a female given name

Turkish

Proper noun

Bianca

1. (astronomy) Bianca