Evghenia
Just 91 women in Poland carry it, and no girl has been given it since 2000: most Poles have never met one. At root it's a form of Eugenia, from the Greek for "well-born, noble".
Evghenia Pronunciation
What Evghenia means
Where Evghenia comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Evghenia comes from the Greek adjective eugenēs, built from eu, meaning good or well, and genos, meaning birth or stock. The literal sense is well-born, noble. That root produced the wider family of Eugenios and Eugenia, and Evghenia belongs among those spellings as one way the name moved across languages and alphabets.
The gh in the middle is the clue to that movement. It marks a form written down in the Slavic east, where Greek Eugenia passed through Cyrillic before returning to Latin letters. A name meaning noble travels easily between alphabets.
On a Polish class register, Evghenia sits near Ewa and Eugenia, its cluster of letters marking a different route to the same Greek root. The meaning stays fixed under every spelling: well-born, noble.
How many people are named Evghenia
1 in 247734 women in Poland is named Evghenia. 91 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3663 among female names.