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blanc Name Meaning and History

  1. French and Catalan: descriptive nickname for a man with white or fair hair or a pale complexion, from Old French, Catalan blanc ‘white’.
  2. Jewish (Ashkenazic): ornamental name from German blank ‘bright’, ‘shiny’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The blanc name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the blanc family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of blanc Families in the US in 1920
Number of blanc families
 12-22
 5-11		 1-4
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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