Bianka
Only about 8,000 Polish women carry it, yet it keeps arriving on birth certificates: close to 400 newborn girls last year, a young name still finding its footing. Latin at root, from a word for "white".
Bianka Pronunciation
Bianka is pronounced BYAHN-kah (/ˈbjanka/).
What Bianka means
Where Bianka comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Bianka comes to Polish from Latin, from the adjective blancus, white, which Late Latin handed on to Italian as bianca. Polish keeps the meaning and trades the c for a k. That k is the ordinary Polish spelling, shared with Hungarian. The short meaning is biała, white.
Shakespeare put a Bianca on stage twice, once in Othello and once in The Taming of the Shrew, so the name has appeared in English drama since about 1600. In Italian the same word still names the colour white, plain and unmistakable.
In a Polish class register the name sits among the B's, Bianka read out on the first morning of the year. Her imieniny are not tied to one ancient saint, so families often settle on a date near the name itself. Whatever the calendar decides, the meaning holds: white, biała.
How many people are named Bianka
1 in 2828 women in Poland is named Bianka. 7,974 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #400 among female names.
Bianka's popularity over time
386 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #129 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2000.
Where Bianka is most popular
Bianka is most popular in Lower Silesian, 64% above the national average (387 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Opole (+45%) and West Pomeranian (+32%). It is least common in Subcarpathian and Lublin, 46% and 45% below average respectively.
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Lower Silesian387 girls born+64%
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Opole100 girls born+45%
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West Pomeranian167 girls born+32%
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Lubusz93 girls born+25%
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Pomeranian273 girls born+23%
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Silesian402 girls born+18%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian185 girls born+13%
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Warmian-Masurian120 girls born+11%
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Łódź209 girls born+10%
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Greater Poland350 girls born+8%
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Masovian413 girls born−22%
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Podlaskie72 girls born−27%
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Lesser Poland234 girls born−31%
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Świętokrzyskie56 girls born−33%
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Lublin85 girls born−45%
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Subcarpathian97 girls born−46%
Bianka as a middle name
Bianka is a first name for 7,974 women in Poland and a middle name for another 1,230, an 87/13 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 234th, between Lilla (1,257) and Nela (1,177).
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#232 Lilia1,310
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#233 Lilla1,257
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#234 Bianka1,230
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#235 Nela1,177
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#236 Eva1,171