Eugenio
Fewer than a hundred men in Poland carry it, so meeting one would stick in memory. Greek at root, meaning "well-born, noble", it reaches Polish through its Italian and Spanish forms.
Eugenio Pronunciation
Eugenio is pronounced e-oo-GE-nyo (/ɛuˈgɛɲɔ/).
What Eugenio means
Where Eugenio comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Eugenio comes from the Greek Eugenios. The root joins eu, meaning good or well, with genes, meaning born. The literal reading is well-born, noble. Italy and Spain adopted the name and kept its shape almost intact.
That sense of nobility gave the name something to live up to. The Italian poet Eugenio Montale won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1975, and readers across Europe learned the name from the spine of his books. In Spanish the same name belongs to bishops, actors, and footballers.
On a Polish class register, an Eugenio sits apart from the local Eugeniusz, marking a family with an Italian or Spanish thread. The teacher reads it once and remembers it. The Greek root behind it still reads plainly: well-born.
How many people are named Eugenio
1 in 237180 men in Poland is named Eugenio. 90 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3699 among male names.
Eugenio as a middle name
Eugenio is a first name for 90 men in Poland and a middle name for another 55, a 62/38 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1008th, between Augustin (55) and Ho (55).
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#1006 Willy56
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#1007 Augustin55
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#1008 Eugenio55
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#1009 Ho55
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#1010 İbrahi̇m55