Where does the last name blanco originate from?

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Where does the last name blanco originate from?

Answer 1

by Nothingu... Member since:

March 27, 2006

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18554 (Level 6) Blanco, Spanish for white. Similar to the French, Blanche, also white. Blanco is therefore originally from Spain.

See the website:

http://www.thinkbabynames.com/meaning/1/...

The boy's name Blanco \b-lan-co, bl(a)-nco\ is of Spanish origin, and its meaning is "fair, white".

Blanco has 1 variant form: Bianco.

Blanco is a very rare male first name and a very popular surname (source: 1990 U.S. Census). Displayed below is the baby name popularity trend for the boy's name Blanco. Click here to compare Blanco with related baby names.

Answer 2

This is what  www.ancestry.com has  to say  about the name,

Blanco Name Meaning and History

Spanish: nickname for a man with white or fair hair or a pale complexion, from blanco ‘white’.

Italian (Sicily): variant of Bianco, perhaps influenced by French blanc and Spanish (see 1 above).

hope this helps.

Answer 3

Sounds Spanish and it means White : ]

Answer 4

www.ancestry.com

Blanco Name Meaning and History

1.Spanish: nickname for a man with white or fair hair or a pale complexion, from "blanco" ‘white’.

2.Italian (Sicily): variant of Bianco, perhaps influenced by French "blanc" and Spanish (see number 1)

http://surnames.behindthename.com/top/se...

Blanco  

Usage: Spanish

Extra:  Rankings for BLANCO:

United States ranked 1,474th out of 88,799 surnames

Argentina ranked 16th out of 100 surnames

Means "white" in Spanish. The name most likely referred to a peson who was pale or had blond hair.

www.familysearch.org has these spelling variations: BLINCO ;  BLINCOE ; BLENCOWE ; BLINKO; BLINCKOE ; BLINKEO ; BLINCKO; BLANCAS ; BLANC ; and some uses of it as a sort of middle name (as in so-and-so BLANCO GONZALEZ).

An early listing of the name is:

CORNELIO BLANCO--born 9 Aug 1532 and died May 1615  in the County of Flanders, Belgium. This family emigrated from Belgium, to Spain, and finally to Venezuela.

     The name is found in the US (MT, CO, KY, MO, AZ,CA, FL, NM, TX, TN, NY, and AL), American Samoa, Mexico, Guatemala, Philippines, Colombia, Western Australia, Canada, Spain, Venezuela, Peru, England, S. Africa, Mozambique, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, El Salvador, France, Germany, Dominican Republic, and Argentina,