I have recently become obsessed with the name [name_f]Blanche[/name_f]! The only problem is that I’m not sure how it would look on all ages. As a young girl, It’s cute. As an adult looking for a proper job, it would do her well. But my only problem age is a teenager. [name_f]Do[/name_f] you think it’s too old for a teen to wear! Or do you like the vintage flare? Wdyt?
Thanks guys!
I love [name_f]Blanche[/name_f]! It’s very vintage so it would fit nicely with currently trendy names like [name_f]Mabel[/name_f], [name_f]Violet[/name_f], [name_f]Stella[/name_f], [name_f]Pearl[/name_f], or [name_f]Beatrice[/name_f]. I think it would be fine on a teen. Plus it has so many great associations — though I’m not exactly a fan of the standard American pronunciation.
I know a [name_f]Blanche[/name_f], knew her since childhood and all through her teens - she wore it well! Nobody bullied her for it and she would laugh about ‘having an old ladies name’ at times but I do think it suits her! It was fine on her as a teen and is fine on her now (bearing in mind she literally JUST left her teen years and is 21 years old).
I think [name_f]Blanche[/name_f] is a beautiful name and I could see a girl wearing it well!
To me it sounds like a whiny old lady name. I really can’t picture it on anyone under 110.
I like the [name_m]French[/name_m] pronunciation but I find the English/[name_u]North[/name_u] American pronunciation pretty harsh. If I loved it I’d put it in the middle name spot. I have trouble picturing it on anyone other than an elderly lady, myself.
[name_f]Blanche[/name_f] reminds me of the A Streetcar Named Desire by [name_u]Tennessee[/name_u] [name_m]Williams[/name_m]. It can be the reason why I cannot picture it on a sweet little girl.
I always automatically go to say it the [name_m]French[/name_m] way (BLON-shh…I’m quite bad at describing sounds, sorry) which literally means white.
But as a name, I quite like it but I do make the Streetcar Named Desire association and I’d hate to be a teenager in a class with that name if you were studying the play. But I think it’s artery enough name, not my personal cup of tea but if it is your cup of tea then that’s all that matters! 
To be honest, I’m not a fan. Sure, it’s part of a group of “old lady” names that are becoming revived, but it lacks either the upbeat, peppy sound of [name_f]Mabel[/name_f] or [name_f]Edith[/name_f], or the stately, regal one of [name_f]Persephone[/name_f] or [name_f]Euphemia[/name_f]. In most American accents, [name_f]Blanche[/name_f] rhymes rather unattractively with the word “ranch”, and in any case reminds me most of the verb “to blanch”, as in, “she blanched.” (“She paled”).
I can’t picture it on anyone under sixty.
I don’t think it ages any worse than any other name. By the time a hypothetical [name_f]Blanche[/name_f] is a teenager, it may well be a trendy name again.
There’s no need to be quite so rude, haha. Anyone under 110? Surely that’s a bit exaggerated.
I don’t adore [name_f]Blanche[/name_f] (although I probably should!), but, I really dislike this whole idea that older names don’t suit a teenager - they served the thousands of girls who were given the name 100 years ago well. What makes now any different? You can’t use the nickname argument, it’s well established, there’s no reason why [name_f]Blanche[/name_f] can’t work on a teenager.
The best way to solve this is, if you aren’t a teenager, ask a teenage friend, brother, sister, or a random one, if they’d be ok with the name [name_f]Blanche[/name_f], if it was their own name. Ask a few if you want! Ask yourself this question too.
This is how I narrowed down my list (which has [name_f]Myrtle[/name_f], [name_f]Doris[/name_f], [name_f]Edna[/name_f], [name_f]Bertha[/name_f], etc), by asking myself and my 15 year old sister if we’d be ok with having those as our names now, and, we both have completely different styles - but our answers were really similar.
@rkrd haha! That made me laugh. Thanks for being honest!
Btw, no offence taken, it’s all good!
I love it, actually.