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Eugenia

The name means "well-born," a Slavic root. Close to 20,000 Polish women carry it, but it's given rarely now, so meeting a young Eugenia would stick with you.

Eugenia Pronunciation

Eugenia is pronounced e-oo-GE-nyah (/ɛuˈgɛɲa/).

Alive in 2025
19,863
Newborns 2025
<2
National rank
#276
Next name day
25 December
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What Eugenia means

Where Eugenia comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Eugenia belongs to a family of Slavic names built around the idea of being well-born. That meaning, dobrze urodzona in Polish, sits plainly in the name. It has never needed decoration.

The name travels easily across the Slavic east. In Ukrainian it turns into Yevheniya, close enough that a Polish ear catches the kinship at once. Its masculine partner is Eugeniusz, a name still read out in full at more than one imieniny.

At home, though, Eugenia rarely stays so formal. Friends shorten her to Gienia, and the long name folds into two easy syllables. A girl might sign Eugenia on a school register in September and answer to Gienia by October. The grand meaning holds, well-born, dobrze urodzona, while the everyday form shrinks to Gienia.

When Eugenia celebrates name day

Eugenia appears 7 times in the Polish name day calendar, 1 of them as a main name, the first on 25 December.

Next name day
25 December
Friday in 2026
Next one in 61 days
Name days

The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.

Also celebrates

Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.

How many people are named Eugenia

1 in 1135 women in Poland is named Eugenia. 19,863 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #276 among female names.

People with the name Eugenia 2019 → 2025
19,863 −6,945 since 2019
2020 26,198 −610
2021 24,685 −1,513
2022 23,136 −1,549
2023 22,041 −1,095
2024 20,946 −1,095
2025 19,863 −1,083

Eugenia's popularity over time

Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been climbing since 2025.

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<2 newborns with the name Eugenia in 2025
below the publication floor that year

Where parents choose Eugenia

Eugenia is most popular in Lublin, 426% above the national average (4 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Pomeranian (+175%) and Lower Silesian (+72%).

Chosen most
  • Lublin
    +426%
    1 in 25,669 babies
  • Pomeranian
    +175%
    1 in 49,107 babies
  • Lower Silesian
    +72%
    1 in 78,567 babies

Eugenia as a middle name

Eugenia is a first name for 19,863 women in Poland and a middle name for another 10,856, a 65/35 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 105th, between Wioleta (11,468) and Dagmara (10,634).

As a first name
19,863
As a middle name
10,856
first name 65% middle name 35%
Middle-name ranking women

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