Given name · also Latin
Eumenes
Eumenes is a given name from Latin, ultimately from Ancient Greek.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Eumenes comes from Latin, and ultimately from Ancient Greek.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In English usage, Eumenes developed from Εὐμένης.
Eumenes’s family of names
In English usage, Eumenes developed from the Ancient Greek form Εὐμένης. In German usage, Eumenes has a conventional equivalent in the Esperanto form Eŭmeno.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Eumenes
- Eumenes IIKing of Pergamon from 197 to 159 BC220 BC–158 BC
- EumenesGreek general and satrap (c. 362 – 316 BC)
- Eumenes Iking of Pergamum250 BC–240 BC
- Pope Eumenes of AlexandriaPatriarch of Alexandria from 129 to 141100–141
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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