Bianca

From Italian Bianca, equivalent of English Blanche.

• IPA^(key): /biˈæŋkə/, /biˈɑŋkə/

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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]:

     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.

• 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.

• Blanche

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

• Abanic, Bacani

Recently borrowed from Italian Bianca.

Bianca

1. a female given name

Recently borrowed from Italian Bianca.

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Bianca f

1. a female given name, variant of Blanche

• Bianka

Recently borrowed from Italian Bianca.

• IPA^(key): /biˈaŋka/

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Bianca

1. a female given name

Borrowed from Italian Bianca.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbi(j)aŋka/, /ˈbj-/

Bianca

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

   Bianca Astrid Hello, b. 2001

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

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

Bianca f

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

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

Bianca m or f by sense

1. a surname originating as a matronymic

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

• bancai, cabina

From Italian Bianca. Doublet of branca and Branca.

• Hyphenation: Bi‧an‧ca

Bianca f (plural Biancas)

1. a female given name from Italian

• Bia

Recently borrowed from Italian Bianca.

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Bianca f

1. a female given name

Recently borrowed from Italian Bianca.

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

Bianca f

1. a female given name

Bianca

1. (astronomy) Bianca