Popularity of the last name by country
United Kingdom
- London (2,190)
- Lancashire (183)
- Kent (139)
- Hampshire (132)
- Merseyside (128)
- Jersey (71)
- Lothian (67)
- Gloucestershire (61)
- Oxfordshire (51)
- Cambridgeshire (50)
- Derbyshire (50)
- Hertfordshire (45)
- Suffolk (44)
- Surrey (33)
- Strathclyde (30)
- West Yorkshire (29)
- North Yorkshire (28)
- Avon (27)
- Tyne and Wear (26)
- Norfolk (24)
- Cornwall (23)
- East Sussex (22)
- Essex (19)
- Cumbria (18)
- Leicestershire (18)
- South Glamorgan (17)
- Somerset (17)
- Devon (16)
- Cleveland (14)
- Fifeshire (14)
- Herefordshire and Worcester (13)
- Dorset (12)
- Guernsey (11)
- Lincolnshire (11)
- South Yorkshire (11)
- Warwickshire (11)
- Berkshire (10)
- Wiltshire (9)
- Cheshire (8)
- Nottinghamshire (8)
- West Midlands (8)
- Tayside (7)
- West Glamorgan (7)
- Antrim (6)
- Bedfordshire (6)
- Borders (6)
- Grampian (5)
- Shetland Isles (5)
- Humberside (4)
- Buckinghamshire (3)
- Central (3)
- Down (3)
- Londonderry (3)
- Northamptonshire (3)
- Staffordshire (3)
- Armagh (2)
- Fermanagh (2)
- Shropshire (2)
- Dyfed (1)
- Dumfries and Galloway (1)
All countries
- France (2,373,969)
- Switzerland (39,019)
- United States (12,955)
- Netherlands (9,803)
- Algeria (9,473)
- Canada (8,788)
- Spain (4,388)
- United Kingdom (4,303)
- Italy (4,085)
- Belgium (3,738)
- Germany (3,470)
- Unknown country (1,666)
- Luxembourg (1,457)
- New Zealand (1,334)
- Morocco (1,102)
- Argentina (900)
- Monaco (897)
- Viet Nam (692)
- Tunisia (670)
- Sweden (669)
- Martinique (592)
- Australia (583)
- New Caledonia (572)
- Guadeloupe (459)
- Ireland (397)
- Turkey (327)
- Indonesia (318)
- Austria (270)
- Réunion (267)
- Mauritius (235)
- Trinidad and Tobago (232)
- Chile (221)
- Russian Federation (220)
- Egypt (218)
- Poland (196)
- Mexico (167)
- Portugal (152)
- India (131)
- Madagascar (127)
- Haiti (125)
Origine of last name
BLANC : 1: French and Catalan: descriptive nickname for a man with light blond hair or a pale complexion from Old French Catalan blanc ‘white’. Compare French <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Deblanc">Deblanc</a> and <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Leblanc">Leblanc</a> and also <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Blan">Blan</a> and <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/White">White</a>.2: Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Blank">Blank</a>.3: English (southern): variant of <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Blank">Blank</a> or <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Blong">Blong</a>.4: West Indian (mainly Haiti): nickname possibly ironic of the same origin as 1 above. Compare <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Leblanc">Leblanc</a>.
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