Eugene
From the Greek eugenes, eu "good" and genos "birth": well-born. Rare on a Polish register today, a name most Poles have never met in person.
Eugene Pronunciation
Eugene is pronounced e-oo-GE-ne (/ɛuˈgɛnɛ/).
What Eugene means
Where Eugene comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Eugene begins in Greek, in the word eugenes, formed from eu, meaning good, and genos, meaning birth. The sense is well-born, noble. Polish renders it szlachetnie urodzony.
From Greek it passed into Latin as Eugenius, the name of popes and saints, and later took its familiar English shape. Alexander Pushkin borrowed the same root for Eugene Onegin, his verse novel of the 1820s, whose bored aristocrat made the name known far beyond Russia. The tale fits a word that means well-born, since Onegin holds the rank and little idea what to do with it.
On a Polish form at the urząd, Eugene is spelled out letter by letter, a name that still points back to Greek stock. Whatever else it gathers, the root stays put: eu and genos, good birth, well-born.
How many people are named Eugene
1 in 103622 men in Poland is named Eugene. 209 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2165 among male names.
Eugene's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Eugene as a middle name
Eugene is a first name for 209 men in Poland and a middle name for another 111, a 65/35 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 669th, between Egon (111) and Ramon (111).
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