Evgeny
Barely 320 men in Poland carry it, and most Poles will never meet one. It's the Russian form of the name known here as Eugeniusz, from the Greek for "well-born, noble".
Evgeny Pronunciation
What Evgeny means
Where Evgeny comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Evgeny begins in Greek, in the word Eugenios, built from eu, meaning well, and genos, meaning birth or stock. The plain sense is well-born, noble.
The name took Russian shape as Yevgeny. Alexander Pushkin handed it to the restless hero of his novel in verse, Eugene Onegin, published in full in 1833. Through that book the name reached readers well beyond Russia, and it stayed a common Russian given name for generations after.
In Poland the same root surfaces as Eugeniusz, the masculine variant, and Eugenia, its feminine counterpart. To read Eugeniusz on a school register is to meet a Greek word for good birth, dressed in Polish spelling. What it promises is character, an old idea of nobility that outlived the courts where such words first mattered, and it stays legible in the everyday form Eugenia.
How many people are named Evgeny
1 in 66499 men in Poland is named Evgeny. 321 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1683 among male names.