Given name
Eugen
“a wellborn man”
Eugen has a related form in Eugene. One Greek interpretation is “a wellborn man.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Eugen has a related form in Eugene. One Greek interpretation is “a wellborn man.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Eugen has a related form in Eugene. Eugene has been associated with Old French and Greek naming traditions.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1915. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Eugen through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 226
- 226 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1930
- 14 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1988. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 14 in 1930. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 885 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Eugen’s family of names
Eugen shares a linguistic root with Eugene. In German usage, Eugen has a conventional equivalent in the Italian form Eugenio. In Slovenian usage, Eugen has a related form in Eugene.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Eugen has relatives in 20 languages.
21 related names in 20 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 30
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Geneequivalent
- EugenioItalian, Spanish
- EoghanIrish
- Eugeniefeminine form
- Evhenequivalent
- Yevgenyequivalent
- Eugénioequivalent
- Евгенequivalent
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- Eugenijusequivalent
- Yevgeniequivalent
- ОйгенRussian
- ЕвгенияRussian
- ЕвгенийRussian
- ΕυγένιοςGreek
- EugeniuszPolish
- EugèneFrench
- Eugeniussource · English, Latin
- Jewgienijequivalent
- Ödönequivalent
- JenőHungarian
- ЄвгенUkrainian
- ЄвгенійUkrainian
- EvženCzech
- EvgenSlovene
- EugênioPortuguese
- EugenijsLatvian
- EugeniCatalan
- UxíoGalician
- EŭgenoEsperanto
- UjanBreton
People named Eugen
- Bertolt BrechtGerman poet, playwright, and theatre director (1898–1956)
- Prince Eugene of Savoyprince of the house of Savoy, then commander in chief of the armies of the Holy Roman Empire (1663-1736)
- Eugen BleulerSwiss psychiatrist (1857–1939)
- Eugen von Böhm-BawerkAustrian economist (1851-1914)
- Eugen PolanskiPolish-German footballerborn 1986
- Eugen d'AlbertScottish-born German pianist and composer (1864-1932)
- Eugen DühringGerman antisemitic philosopher and economist (1833-1921)
- Eugenius WarmingDanish botanist (1841–1924)1840–1924
- Eugen SandowGerman bodybuilder and strongman (1867–1925)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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