Blanc

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Blanc or le Blanc is a surname of French origin, meaning White.

Geographical distribution

As of 2014, 64.5% of all known bearers of the surname Blanc were residents of France (frequency 1:842), 17.0% of Haiti (1:514), 4.0% of Switzerland (1:1,661), 3.7% of the United States (1:80,367), 2.4% of Argentina (1:14,524), 1.6% of Italy (1:31,351) and 1.2% of Brazil (1:134,636).

In France, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average (1:842) in the following regions:

• 1. Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (1:299)
• 2. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (1:320)
• 3. Occitanie (1:435)

In Switzerland, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average (1:1,661) in the following cantons:^[1]

• 1. Vaud (1:331)
• 2. Fribourg (1:425)
• 3. Geneva (1:649)
• 4. Valais (1:847)
• 5. Neuchâtel (1:1,122)

People

• Adolphe-Edmond Blanc (1799-1850), French politician
• Antoine Blanc (1792–1860), first Archbishop of New Orleans
• Antoine le Blanc (19th century), French immigrant to the United States, celebrated murderer
• Bertrand Blanc (b. 1973), French ski mountaineer
• Charles Blanc (1813-1882), French art critic
• Didier Blanc (b. 1984), French ski mountaineer
• Edmond Blanc (1856-1920), French politician
• Emmanuel Blanc (b. 1972), French ski mountaineer
• Erika Blanc (b. 1942), Italian actress
• Ernest Blanc (1923–2010), opera singer
• Jacques Blanc (b. 1939), French politician
• Jennifer Blanc (b. 1974), American actress
• Julien Blanc (b. 1988), Dating coach, self-help speaker
• Laurent Blanc (b. 1965), French manager and former footballer
• Louis Blanc (1811–1882), French politician and historian
• Martine Blanc (b. 1944), French children's book author and illustrator
• Mel Blanc (1908–1989), American actor
• Michel Blanc (b. 1952), French actor
• Nathalie Blanc (b. 1967), French ski mountaineer
• Patrick Blanc (b. 1953), French botanist
• Patrick Blanc (ski mountaineer), (b. 1972), French ski mountaineer
• Raymond Blanc (b. 1949), French chef
• Samuel Oscar Blanc, invented the Roto-Rooter drain-cleaning machine
• Serge Blanc (born 1972), French footballer
• Serge Blanc (violinist) (1929–2013), French violinist, conductor and academic
• Blanc, a fictional character in the game Hyperdimension Neptunia

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