Eugen
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Eugen is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. In German, recorded as a male given name, feminine equivalent Eugenie, equivalent to English Eugene.
- RORomania≈1 in 739(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 1.6K
- MDMoldova1 in 2K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 219 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 739 (inferred from the name graph)
≈52,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Romania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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 Greek Eugenios ‘well-born’. See (Eugene in main dictionary. Eva @ Biblical. See }Eve in main dictionary. habe 3 Germanic: Ewawalt ‘power of aw’. 268 -
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
How Eugen is read(measured from records)
Eugen is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- German58%
a male given name, feminine equivalent Eugenie, equivalent to English Eugene
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
) Eugen: männl. Vom. grie chischen/lateinischen Ursprungs (lat. Euge- nius zu griech. eugents »wohlgeboren, von edler Abkunft, edel«). Gleichnamige Heilige (der heilige Eugenius [4. Jh.], Priester in
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- English14%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Eugen in English.
- Romanian8.1%
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Eugen 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.
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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); e-services.md — living population register; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). 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)
Eugen is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
From Greek Eugenios ‘well-born’. See (Eugene in main dictionary. Eva @ Biblical. See }Eve in main dictionary. habe 3 Germanic: Ewawalt ‘power of aw’. 268 -
as a nameA concise dictionary of first 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. 780ITnot in their usual namepope
- Eugenius IVb. 1383ITnot in their usual namepope of the Catholic Church from 1431 to 1447
- Eugene of Savoyb. 1663FRnot in their usual nameprince of the house of Savoy, then commander in chief of the armies of the Holy Roman Empire (1663-1736)
- Yevgeny Zamyatinb. 1884RUnot in their usual nameRussian author (1884–1937)
- Erwin Rommelb. 1891DEnot in their usual nameGerman field marshal (1891-1944)
- Bertolt Brechtb. 1898DEnot in their usual nameGerman poet, playwright, and theatre director (1898–1956)
- Reinhard Heydrichb. 1904DEnot in their usual nameGerman Nazi SS and Gestapo police official and main architect of the Holocaust Genocide (1904-1942)
- Eugène Ionescob. 1909ROnot in their usual nameRomanian-French playwright (1909–1994)
- Yevgeny Prigozhinb. 1961RUnot in their usual nameRussian mercenary leader, oligarch, restaurateur, former owner of Wagner PVC (1961–2023)
- Cristian Chivub. 1980ROnot in their usual nameRomanian association football player
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 59 sources across 36 countries.
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Eugen come from?
- From Greek Eugenios ‘well-born’. See (Eugene in main dictionary. Eva @ Biblical. See }Eve in main dictionary. habe 3 Germanic: Ewawalt ‘power of aw’. 268 - Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- What does the name Eugen mean?
- In German, a male given name, feminine equivalent Eugenie, equivalent to English Eugene
- In which country does Eugen have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 52 thousand people named Eugen in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled eugen.
- Is Eugen a male or female name?
- Eugen 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.
- What are other forms of the name Eugen?
- In the etymology graph, Eugene, Gene and Yevhen are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Eugen?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 2,210 people named Eugen, about 1 in 4.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Eugen compared with other names?
- In Germany, Eugen is the 311th most common given name of 156,202 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Eugen?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/eugenThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 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, “Eugen” — the 311th most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.