Yevhena
Just 81 women in Poland carry it, and none of last year's newborns got it: a Ukrainian name most Poles have never met. It traces back to the Greek for "well-born, noble".
Yevhena Pronunciation
What Yevhena means
Where Yevhena comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Yevhena begins in Greek. The source is eugenes, built from eu, meaning good, and genes, meaning born. So the name means well-born, noble, which Polish renders as szlachetnie urodzona. The sense sat in the word before any child wore it.
The form belongs to Ukraine. Yevhena stands beside the Latinized Eugenia that Poland has long known. From the same stem grow the diminutive Gienia, used at home, and the masculine Eugeniusz. One root, several doors.
The Greek stem left other marks. It named Saint Eugenia of Rome, an early Christian figure kept in the church calendar, and it fed the modern word eugenic. Picture the name on a Polish class register, entered in a teacher's neat hand. It reads plainly and needs no gloss. The meaning stays where it started: well-born.
How many people are named Yevhena
1 in 278319 women in Poland is named Yevhena. 81 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3955 among female names.