Pronunciation | /biˈæŋkə/ bee-ANG-kə, US also /-ɑːŋ-/ -AHNG- Italian: [ˈbjaŋka] |
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Gender | Female |
Name day | October 3 |
Origin | |
Word/name | Italian |
Meaning | White |
Region of origin | Italy |
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Bianca is a feminine given name. It means "white" and is an Italian cognate of Blanche. [1] It is known in the Anglosphere as a character in William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew . It came to greater notice in the 1970s, due to public figures such as Bianca Jagger. [2]
Andrea is a given name which is common worldwide for both males and females, cognate to Andreas, Andrej and Andrew.
Vanessa is a feminine given name.
Lina is an international feminine given name, mostly the short form of a variety of names ending in -lina including Adelina, Angelina, Carmelina, Carolina, Catalina, Emelina, Evangelina, Evelina, Karolina, Italina, Marcelina, Melina, Nikolina, Paulina, Rosalina, and Žaklina.
Samantha is a feminine given name.
Carla is the feminized version of Carl, Carlos or Charles, from ceorl in Old English, which means "free man".
Bianca Odinakachukwu Olivia Odumegwu-Ojukwu is a Nigerian politician, diplomat, lawyer, businesswoman and beauty pageant titleholder. She currently serves as the Federal Minister of State for Foreign Affairs. The widow of Biafra President Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, she is a multiple international pageant titleholder, having won Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria, Miss Africa, and Miss Intercontinental. Formerly a presidential advisor, she was the country's ambassador to Ghana and became Nigeria's Ambassador to Spain in 2012. She is also Nigeria’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations World Tourism Organization ( UNWTO) and the incumbent Minister of State Foreign Affairs, after being sworn-in on 4 November 2024.
Karen is a given name and occasional surname. In English, it is a feminine given name derived from the name Katherine, and it is also found in modern Africa, as well as in East Asia. However, in other countries such as Iran and Armenia, it is a masculine name deriving from Middle Iranian. The name 'Karen' also became a popular nickname for middle aged women that easily resort to asking for management in the face of adversity.
Branca is a feminine given name. It means "white" in Portuguese.
Sophia, also spelled Sofia, is a feminine given name, from Greek Σοφία, Sophía, "Wisdom". Other forms include Sophie, Sophy, and Sofie. The given name is first recorded in the beginning of the 4th century. It is a common female name in the Eastern Orthodox countries. It became very popular in the West beginning in the later 1990s and became one of the most popularly given girls' names in the Western world in the first decades of the 21st century.
Nicole is a feminine given name and a surname.
Jane is a feminine given name. It is the English form of Jehanne, the Old French feminine form of Iohannes, a Latin form of the Greek name Ἰωάννης (Iōannēs), which is ultimately derived from the Hebrew name יוֹחָנָן (Yochanan), a short form of the name יְהוֹחָנָן (Yehochanan), meaning "Yahweh is merciful".
Jasmine is an English feminine given name.
Livia was the wife of Augustus and the most powerful woman in the early Roman Empire. Livia is a girl's name of Latin origin, meaning “blue”. From Roman times, this was the female derivative of the family name Livius. Livia is a common feminine given name in countries such as Brazil, Italy, Spain, Argentina, Uruguay, Cuba, France, Romania, Hungary. Livia was a literary favorite from the sixteenth century, appearing in the plays of John Fletcher and Thomas Middleton, and playing a minor role in Romeo and Juliet. Anna Livia Plurabelle is the name of a character in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake.
Branka is a Serbo-Croatian female given name derived from the Slavic root bran – the same as in Branislav and Branimir – with the meaning "to defend or protect". It can also be a version of the Portuguese name Branca meaning "white". The name Branka became popular in the territory of former Yugoslavia some hundred years ago.
Clara or Klara is a female given name. It is the feminine form of the Late Latin name Clarus which meant "clear, bright, famous". Various early male Christian saints were named Clarus; the feminine form became popular after the 13th-century Saint Clare of Assisi, one of the followers of Saint Francis, who renounced her privileged background and founded the order of Poor Clares.
Luciana is a feminine given name of Roman origin, a variation of the masculine name Lucius. The name is especially popular in Argentina, Brazil, Italy, Portugal and Romania. In Hungarian the name is Luciána.
Bianka is a feminine given name in Hungarian,Russian, Polish, Slovak and German.
Blanca is a feminine Spanish given name. Notable people with the name include:
Janine is a feminine given name and may refer to:
Blanka is a feminine given name. Notable people with the name include: