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Eugenia
Say it: yoo-JEE-nee-uh
Meaning
Greek eugeneia, 'nobility, good birth' (eu 'good' and genos 'birth').
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Made fashionable in the 19th century by the French empress Eugénie.
Its wave through time
Fading since the 1910s
In the United States
- 29,676 babies given this name since 1880
- At its height in 1911, about 1 in 1,900 girls
- 50 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
Early ChristianGreekEnglishFrenchSpanishItalianRussianAncient Greek
The family of the name
Other spellings: Eugénie
| French | Eugénie |
|---|---|
| Spanish | Eugenia |
| Italian | Eugenia |
| Portuguese | Eugénia |
| German | Eugenie |
| Polish | Eugenia |
| Russian | Yevgeniya |
| Greek | Evgenia |
Famous bearers
- Eugenia of Rome, early martyr
- Eugénie de Montijo, empress of the French
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Where this comes from
- Lives of the saints and early Christian martyrologies
- Royal and noble genealogies
- Calendars of saints and name days
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
Meanings and histories are compiled from the study of names and their languages and checked by a second review.
Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.