Blanda

Borrowed from Italian Blanda.

Blanda (plural Blandas)

1. A surname from Italian.

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Blanda is the 36630^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 610 individuals. Blanda is most common among White (94.75%) individuals.

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Blanda”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 169.

• Beulanda

Blanda

1. Netherlands (The main constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located primarily in Western Europe bordering Germany and Belgium)
2. Netherlands, Kingdom of the Netherlands (a country in Western Europe, consisting of four constituent countries: the Netherlands per se, Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten)

From a feminine form of Blando.

Blanda m or f by sense

1. a surname

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈblan.da/, [ˈbɫ̪än̪d̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈblan.da/, [ˈblän̪d̪ä]

Blanda f sg (genitive Blandae); first declension

1. A city in Lucania

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

• → Ancient Greek: Βλάνδα (Blánda)

• “Blanda”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Blanda in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Blanda”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly