Yauheni
A Slavic name meaning "well-born, noble". Around 6,000 men in Poland carry it and no women do, though you'd be lucky to meet one: births have all but stopped.
Yauheni Pronunciation
Yauheni is pronounced ih-ah-oo-KHE-nyee (/ɨauˈxɛɲi/).
What Yauheni means
Where Yauheni comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Yauheni is a Slavic name, the Belarusian form of the one Poles write as Eugeniusz. Its meaning is given plainly: well-born, noble. That sense belongs to the name from the start, not stitched on later by pious legend. In szlachetnie urodzony a Polish reader hears the same claim, born to good standing.
To a Polish eye the spelling can look crowded, all those vowels pressed together near the front. The person behind it, though, answers to the same idea of noble birth as any Eugeniusz on a school register. In the Belarusian spelling Яўгені the noble root survives, dressed in a different national coat. Read the name at an imieniny and you are naming a quality older than the family holding it.
Yauheni means well-born. Slavic in shape, and noble in the reading of it.
How many people are named Yauheni
1 in 3541 men in Poland is named Yauheni. 6,029 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #450 among male names.
Yauheni's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.