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I would choose Bianca.
Belinda I just don't like.
If I could use the French pronounciation for Blanche, I like it, but Blanche in the eng.north-american way, all nasal, I dislike.
where I live, it's often Marie-Blanche.

Bianca, it’s a family name and it’s beautiful. Followed by Blanche, don’t particularly care for Belinda.

Bianca - while both Blanche and Belinda sound dated and middle-aged, Bianca is youthful and fresh.

I suppose Belinda, but I'd use a nn like Lindy (not that I like Lindy much either...)

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Blanche reminds me of green beans.

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Bianca looks nice, but gives off a trashy vibe and I can't stand the "YAHnk" sound in the middle of it.

Blanche's connotations are very strong so it's hard for me to evaluate it as a name. I guess if I thought about it the sound isn't very nice. But I kind of like it for some reason.

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Bianca is very Shakespearean. Feels weird in English. Nothing wrong with it.

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I really dislike Belinda for a human. It feels frilly and cutesy, which seems silly for me to say, because I guess I like a lot of frilly names, and a lot of cutesy names too. Also, it was my goat's middle name, so it's not really usable for me.

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Bianca, then.

I would choose Bianca.
Blanche is pronounced like 'blanch' which is a cooking term. Belinda sounds dowdy and staid for some reason.

Blanche

I went to high school with a Belinda and thought it was dated then. That was many years go. I dont like the others so I choose Belinda.

Blanche, like an almond? No. And I don't like the sound of it either.
Bianca is more modern than Blanche, but where I live anyway it's still dated and seems to be trying to hard to be different and exotic.
Belinda confuses me every time. I can almost commit to liking it, but then something stops me and I'm not sure what it is. Too close to Linda? But Linda is actually pretty, or was before it went viral. Too frilly? Maybe, but some names I like are certainly a whole lot frillier. Too much like Melinda? But I always and instinctively dislike Melinda.

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OK, Belinda then.

Bianca, sounds prettier and more feminine and fits in better today

Bianca is pretty, musical and lively. It easily gets my vote. Belinda is nondescript and dated while Blanche seems blah to me.
I don't enjoy saying it the way I do Bianca.

I like the sound of Belinda best, I'd rather be a Belinda, so I'd use that. It's antique like Mabel, but it's prettier. A little fluffy too - it's more like Melody than like Melinda, in my mind.

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Blanche in English is too ugly - I guess it's nicer in French. I just don't really like the sound either way though.

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Bianca - well, I like it better than Belinda on paper, but in real life I would not use it. It seems a little too 'foreign' for me to use (like it's clearly a form of Blanche, so for me it'd be like using Giovanna instead of Joanna). Also I once heard a girl being addressed as Bianca, and my reaction was to think it sounds a little bit princessy. Like Angelica. Nice names but I think they sound stuck up.

This message was edited 6/18/2019, 12:24 PM

Bianca. I'm okay with Melinda, but for some reason Belinda has always seemed clunky to me while Melinda doesn't. Blanche is horrible. Okay, I like that it was used in Medieval times, a la the wife of John of Gaunt, Blanche of Lancaster, but that can't redeem it. It's just so fugly. So although I don't care a lot for Bianca, IMO it's the best of the three.

Hi Billina !!!

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Bianca 10/10 one of my favourite names. It is in my list to use for a future daughter. Its meaning is immediate to Italians plus it still has quite an aristocratic vibe that I love.

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Blanche 9/10 I really like it. Perfect as a possible MN.

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Belinda 3/10 uhm.. cutesy, madeup. Not my cup of tea.

Belinda. I think it's kinda cute, actually.
Blanche and Bianca are just ugly. Blanche sounds like a miserable old woman, and also like somebody stomping on a box of cereal.
Bianca sounds cheap and trashy, bad dye job, dragon-lady fingernails, someone who acts rude to waiters and cab cdrivers because she thinks she's better than they are.