Blenda
given name · Latin script
Meaning: blende (a naturally-occurring sulfide of zinc)
Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree
- Brazil (IBGE, 2022): listed as female
- United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as female
- Kosovo (ASK Kosovo): listed as female
- Finland (DVV): listed under both sexes
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 17 countries · latest register: ASK Kosovo, 2024
/ˈblẽ.dɐ/(recorded in a dictionary) Portuguese · from Wiktionary
Blenda is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 17K(measured from records)
- XKKosovo≈1 in 19K
- HNHonduras≈1 in 70Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 80 (measured from records)
- 1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)
2,842 people, 2022
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)blende (a naturally-occurring sulfide of zinc)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Blenda counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 2,842 | 1 in 74K | 2.8K | Blenda | 80 |
| PH Philippines | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 87K | — | Blenda | 24 |
| US United States | 896 | 1 in 371K | 894 | Blenda | 78 |
| SE Sweden | 589 | 1 in 17K | 589 | — | 6 |
| HN Honduras | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 70K | — | Blenda | 3 |
| XK Kosovo | ≈85 est. | ≈1 in 19K | 538 | — | 1 |
2,842 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Blenda is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Blenda är troligen ett uppdiktat namn, som förekommer i en småländsk sägen om den handlingskraftiga Värendskvinnan Blenda. Namnet finns också i en romantisk dikt av Erik Johan Stagnelius (1812). I den rikssvenska almanackan 27 maj.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Blanca, brillante
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In Italian, zinc blende, sphalerite
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Polish, blind window
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, Blenda. Blenda ordeigaiagaz anstu ezkero, zin-ordeia sorzen da . GJaur Kimia 159.
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Ester Blenda Nordströmb. 1891SESwedish writer and explorer
- Blenda Ljungbergb. 1907SESwedish politician (1907-1994)
- Margareta Hegardtb. 1932SEnot in their usual nameSwedish diplomat (1932-2005)
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)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)30 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 17 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Blenda mean, and where does it come from?
- blende (a naturally-occurring sulfide of zinc) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Blenda?
- It depends on the language: in Portuguese /ˈblẽ.dɐ/ (Wiktionary); in Spanish /ˈblenda/ (Wiktionary).
- Is Blenda a male or female name?
- Blenda is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: Brazil (IBGE, 2022): listed as female; United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as female; Kosovo (ASK Kosovo): listed as female; Finland (DVV): listed under both sexes. We don't publish a percentage split.
- Which countries have the most people named Blenda?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 2.8 thousand people named Blenda, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled blenda. After it come Philippines, United States, Sweden and Honduras; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Blenda most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Blenda is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 17 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Blenda?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 2,842 people named Blenda in 2022, about 1 in 74 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Blenda?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/blendaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Blenda”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.