Blanken

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in English: To make or become blank

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/ˈbɫæŋkən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Blanken is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.

rarermore common
  • NLNetherlands
  • USUnited States
  • DEGermany

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

to glow in a white or pallid colour

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

How Blanken is read(measured from records)

Blanken is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • English64%

    To make or become blank

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Dutch12%

    to glow in a white or pallid colour

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • German10%

    inflection of blank:

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Recorded in:

No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1700180019002000Jan Blanken, b. 1755Gerard Hendrik Blanken, b. 1902Willem Blanken, b. 1923Pim Blanken, b. 1940Margreet Blanken, b. 1941Nettie Blanken, b. 1946Hans Blanken, b. 1946Peter Blanken, b. 1965Christine Blanken, b. 1967Madelief Blanken, b. 1989

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalDear Blanken,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 15 sources across 9 countries.

Official registers attesting Blanken
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)20071.5K#975
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010690#33,164
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000660#32,782
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020659#36,520
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)200837#32,191
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—6#154,812
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20244#118,617
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—4#71,092
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—4#59,148
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20263—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—3#252,021
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Where does the name Blanken come from?
to glow in a white or pallid colour Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Blanken?
A machine transcription gives /ˈbɫæŋkən/ (IPA) for English.
What does the name Blanken mean?
In English, To make or become blank
In which country does Blanken have the most bearers?
Blanken is most frequently recorded in the United States.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Blanken”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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