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Eugene
Pronounced /ˈjuː.d͡ʒin/
Rank in 2024
#868
Born in 2024
276
Peak year
1927 · #20
Origin
Ancient Greek
Also recorded for girls:0 in 2024
1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 276 boys were named Eugene, about 1 in every 6,215.
- It peaked in 1927 with 9,742 babies, ranked #20.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 380,453 boys have been named Eugene since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Eugene per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 6.4Greatest1901–27
- 6.0Silent1928–45
- 2.3Boomers1946–64
- 1.1Gen X1965–80
- 0.5Millennials1981–96
- 0.2Gen Z1997–12
- 0.2Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 106,483 babies, 6.37 per 1,000. Silent: 123,915 babies, 6.00 per 1,000. Boomers: 88,138 babies, 2.35 per 1,000. Gen X: 30,323 babies, 1.11 per 1,000. Millennials: 13,878 babies, 0.46 per 1,000. Gen Z: 6,091 babies, 0.19 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 3,305 babies, 0.15 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
Borrowed from French Eugène, from Latin Eugenius, from Ancient Greek Εὐγένιος (Eugénios, “well born”), from εὖ (eû, “good, well”) + -γενής (-genḗs, “born a certain way”). Parallel to eugenics. Doublet of Yevgeny, Eugenius, and Owen.
- A male given name from Ancient Greek.
- Origin
- Ancient Greek
- Say it
- /ˈjuː.d͡ʒin/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Eugene, CC BY-SA 4.0.