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In all the world, Blanch (Blanche
, Blanc
, Blanch
) is a common primarily feminine, but scarcely male first name. The first name Blanch is characteristic of Cameroon, where it is quite a common predominantly female, but very seldom male name, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Algeria, where it is quite a rare gender-neutral name. Not in comparison with a country's population, it is the most numerous in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the United States, and Cameroon. Also, Blanch is the last name as well as the forename.
Blanch is also a popular name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Blanche DuBois , the fictional character in Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire; Blanche DuBois , the operatic character in the opera A Streetcar Named Desire; Blanche Marci , character in Plus belle la vie; Blanche Hunt , the Corrie character, Coronation Street and Blanche Devereaux , the fictional character from "The Golden Girls", and in many other works.