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- Dutch and German: nickname for a man with white or fair hair or a pale complexion, from Middle Low, Middle High German blanc ‘bright’, ‘shining’, ‘white’, ‘beautiful’, Middle Dutch blank ‘fair’, ‘white’.
- Variant spelling of the English and Jewish (Ashkenazic) cognate Blanc or the German cognate Blanck.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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