Eugenia is a feminine first name related to the masculine name Eugene that comes from the Greek eugenes 'well-born', from eu- 'well' + genes 'born' (from genos).Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon s.v.
Variants include Eugénia (Portuguese), Eugénie (French), Eugènia (Catalan), Uxía (Galician), Evgenia, Evyenia (), Eugenija (Lithuanian) and Yevgenia or Yevgeniya (; also transliterated as Evgenia or Evgeniya), In Ukraine the russianized form is Yevheniia, but the folk form of the name is Yivha (Євгенія).
Notable people Eugenia of Rome (died c. 258), Roman Christian martyr Eugenia Smet (1825–1871), French nun, founder of the Society of the Helpers of the Holy Souls Princess Eugenia Maximilianovna of Leuchtenberg (1845–1925), French-Russian princess Eugenia Abu (born 1962), Nigerian journalist Eugenia Apostol (1925–2026), Filipino publisher Eugènia Balcells (1943–2026), Spanish Catalan artist Eugenia Bonetti, Italian nun Princess Eugenia de Jesús de Borbón y Vargas (born 2007), French-Spanish aristocrat Eugenia Brooks Frothingham (1874–1971), American novelist Eugenia Bujak, Lithuanian-Polish cyclist Eugenia Calle (1952–2009), American cancer epidemiologist Eugênia Câmara (1837–1879), Portuguese actress Eugenia Campbell Nowlin (1908–2003), American arts administrator, artist Eugenia Caruso, Italian actress and screenwriter Eugenia Cauduro (born 1968), Mexican actress Eugenia Shi-Chia Chang, South African Member of Parliament Eugenia Charles (1919–2005), Prime Minister of Dominica Eugenia Cheng, British mathematician, educator, and concert pianist Eugenia Chuprina (born 1971), Ukrainian poet, writer, and playwright Eugenia Clinchard (1909–1989), American child actress Eugenia Cooney (born 1994), American internet personality Eugenia "Eugene" Domingo (born 1971), Filipino actress, comedienne and host Eugenia Errázuriz (1860–1951), Chilean patroness of the arts Eugenia Falleni (1875–1939), Italian-Australian transgender man convicted of murder Eugenia Gabrieluk (born 1967), Russian pianist Eugenia Gómez de Diego (born 1976), Spanish politician Eugenia Kisimova (1831–1885), Bulgarian women's rights activist Eugenia Kuzmina (born 1987), Russian-American model and actress Eugenia Mandzhieva (born 1985), Russian fashion model and actress of Kalmyk descent Eugenia St. John Mann (1847-1932), American evangelist and temperance lecturer Eugenia Manolidou (born 1975), Greek composer and conductor Eugenia Malinnikova (born 1974), Russian mathematician Eugenia L. Mobley (1922–2011), American dentist, college dean Eugenia de Montijo (1826–1920), wife of Napoleon III of France Eugenia Nobel (1912–1999), German writer Eugenia Parry Janis (born 1940), American art historian Eugenia Paul (1935–2010), American actress and dancer Eugenia del Pino (born 1945), Ecuadorian developmental biologist Eugenia Popa (born 1973), Romanian gymnast Eugenia Popescu-Județ (1925–2011), Romanian dancer Eugenia Price (1916–1996), American author Eugenia Rasponi (1873–1958), Italian noblewoman, suffragist, and businesswoman Eugenia Ravasio (1907–1990), Italian Catholic nun and mystic Eugenia Silva (born 1976), Spanish model Eugenia Smith (1899–1997), claimed to be Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia Eugenia Gil Soriano (born 1996), Spanish football referee Eugenia D. Soru (1901–1988), Romanian chemist Eugenia Tenenbaum (born 1996), Spanish art historian, feminist and LGBTQ rights activist Eugenia Triantafyllou, Greek speculative fiction author and artist Eugenia Tsoumani-Spentza (died 2020), Greek politician Eugenia Tymoshenko (born 1980), Ukrainian entrepreneur and activist Eugenia Martínez Vallejo (1674-1699), Spanish court jester Eugenia Volodina (born 1984), Russian supermodel Eugenia Washington (1838–1900), American Catholic historian, civil servant, and one of the founders of Daughters of the American Revolution Eugenia Williamson Hume (1865–1899), American elocutionist and educator Eugenia Yuan (born 1976), American gymnast and actress Eugenia Zamora (born 1957), Costa Rican jurist and public official Eugenia Zukerman (born 1944), American flautist
Fictional characters
Eugenia Münster, main character in The Europeans Eugenia, central figure in Eduardo Urzaiz’s 1919 novel Eugenia: A Fictional Sketch of Future Customs Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan, a protagonist in The Help Eugenia Randolph Lord, a character in One Life to Live Eugenia Dermody, a character in season 1 of Ozark Eugenia, a minor character in season 1 and 2 of Snowpiercer Eugenia Lightwood, character in The Shadowhunter Chronicles Eugenia Ferdinand-Ferdinand, minor animated character in Legend of the Three Caballeros Eugenia Kisskillya, minor animated character in Histeria!
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