Yevgenii
Fewer than 120 men in Poland carry it, and no boys have been given it in recent years: meeting one would stick in memory. It's the Russian form of a Greek name meaning "well-born, noble".
Yevgenii Pronunciation
What Yevgenii means
Where Yevgenii comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Yevgenii traces back to the Greek Eugenios, built from eu, meaning well, and genes, meaning born. The direct sense is well-born, noble. It is a Russian name resting on a Greek root.
Russian literature gave the name its most famous bearer. Alexander Pushkin titled his verse novel Yevgeny Onegin, completed in 1833, after a restless young nobleman. A century later the poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko took the same name into Soviet auditoriums and read to crowds in the thousands.
On a Polish class register, Yevgenii sits close to its cousin Eugeniusz, the local form of the same Greek root. Both mean well-born. The Russian spelling keeps the eu sound at the front, the old marker of noble birth.
How many people are named Yevgenii
1 in 185619 men in Poland is named Yevgenii. 115 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3172 among male names.