Eugene
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Eugene is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In South Korea it is the 15th most common given name. Recorded meaning: from Gk Eugenios ‘Well-born’, ‘Noble’) borne by a 3rdcent.
- SGSingapore≈1 in 936(inferred from the name graph)
- CNChina≈1 in 1.1K
- CACanada≈1 in 1.4K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Eugene itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- #292 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 564 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 936 (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,300,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Singapore, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled 유진 in KR South Korea and Eugeniusz in PL Poland.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from Gk Eugenios ‘Well-born’, ‘Noble’) borne by a 3rdcent. bishop and martyr, who gave the given name some currency during the Middle Ages.
Sources 1
- A dictionary of surnames
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Eugene counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈1,300,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Eugene | 50 |
| KR South Korea | #15 | ≈150,000 est. | ≈1 in 352 | 79 | 유진 | 140 |
| US United States | #130 | 143,351 | 1 in 2.3K | 143K | Eugene | 564 |
| PL Poland | #93 | 55,466as Eugeniusz | 1 in 690 | 58K | Eugeniusz | 123 |
| PH Philippines | #340 | ≈54,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Eugene | 143 |
| CA Canada | #203 | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | 6 | Eugene | 242 |
| SG Singapore | #64 | ≈6,600 est. | ≈1 in 936 | — | Eugene | 160 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Supreme Court — newborn given names; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Eugene is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
From the Old French form of the Greek name Eugenios (from eugenés EUPHEMIA ‘well-born’, ‘noble’). This name was borne by various early saints, notably a 5th-century bishop of Carthage, a 7thcentury bishop of Toledo, and four popes. It is sometimes used as an Anglicized form of Irish Eéghan. Short form: Gene.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
Greek, ‘well born’. Aname used to translate Eoghan.
as a nameIrish first names
In English, A male given name from Ancient Greek.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, Du grec eugenēs, « bien né »; fête de saint Eugène le 2 juillet.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In English, city, OR; pers. name
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Eugene IIb. 780ITpope
- Eugenius IVb. 1383ITnot in their usual namepope of the Catholic Church from 1431 to 1447
- Eugène de Beauharnaisb. 1781FRFrench statesman and military officer (1781–1824)
- Marcellin Berthelotb. 1827FRnot in their usual nameFrench chemist and politician (1827-1907)
- Paul Éluardb. 1895FRnot in their usual nameFrench poet (1895–1952)
- Eugene Wignerb. 1902HUHungarian-American physicist and mathematician (1902–1995)
- Louis Néelb. 1904FRnot in their usual nameFrench physicist (1904-2000)
- Gene Roddenberryb. 1921USnot in their usual nameAmerican television screenwriter and producer (1921–1991)
- Gore Vidalb. 1925USnot in their usual nameAmerican writer (1925–2012)
- Gene Hackmanb. 1930USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor and novelist (1930–2025)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 101 sources across 60 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 143K | #396 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 664 | #396 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 249 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 216 | #1,222 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 206 | #1,203 |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2024 | 40 | — |
| CA Canada | Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender | 2024 | 6 | #691 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2019 | 5 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #15,814 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 3 | #15,815 |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Eugene come from?
- from Gk Eugenios ‘Well-born’, ‘Noble’) borne by a 3rdcent. bishop and martyr, who gave the given name some currency during the Middle Ages. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
- What are other forms of the name Eugene?
- In the etymology graph, Eugenio, Yevhen and Evgenij are forms of the same name in other languages; Gene is a recorded short or pet form.
- What does the name Eugene mean?
- Recorded meaning: from Gk Eugenios ‘Well-born’, ‘Noble’) borne by a 3rdcent.
- Is Eugene a male or female name?
- Eugene is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Eugene have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.3 million people named Eugene in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled eugene.
- How common is the name Eugene?
- In the United States, the national register counted 143,351 people named Eugene in 2020, about 1 in 2.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Eugene compared with other names?
- In South Korea, Eugene is the 15th most common given name of 67,037 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/eugeneThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Eugene” — the 15th most common given name in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.