Given name & surname
Blandina
“a mild-tempered woman”·“a flattering woman”
Blandina is a variant of Blanda. Interpretations include “a mild-tempered woman” and “a flattering woman”. These belong to different or overlapping naming contexts.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Blandina is a variant of Blanda. Interpretations include “a mild-tempered woman” and “a flattering woman”. These belong to different or overlapping naming contexts.
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Blandina is a variant of Blanda. Blanda has been associated with Latin and Spanish naming traditions.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1889. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Blandina through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 72
- 0 boys · 72 girls
- Most popular year
- 1916
- 8 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 1958. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 8 in 1916. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 531 as a first name in 2020; 124 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Blandina’s family of names
In Italian usage, Blandina has a diminutive in Dina. Blandina has a related form in Blanda. In English usage, Blandina has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form Blandyna.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Blandina has relatives in 3 languages.
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Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Blandina
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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