Blanche Last Name: Meaning and Heraldic Roots

Seen on a birth certificate or a ship's manifest, Blanche is usually a form of Blanc. Blanche is built on the same root as Blanc, with the ending -he. Name scholars give the meaning as “White, fair”. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them.

Related forms: Leblanc and Blanchard.

Arms linked to Blanc and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to. Want more than a summary? See the Blanche family name pack.