Eugenia
PronunciationEnglish: /juːˈniə/
Greek: [evʝeˈnia]
Italian: [euˈdʒɛːnja]
Portuguese: [ewˈʒeniɐ]
Galician: [uˈʃia]
Spanish: [ewˈxenja]
Catalan: [əwˈʒɛniə]
GenderFemale
Origin
Word/nameGreek
Meaningnobility or "well-born"
Other names
Related namesEugenius, Eugenio, Eugene, Eugenie, Evgenia

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).[1]

Variants include Eugénia (Portuguese), Eugénie (French), Eugènia (Catalan), Uxía (Galician), Evgenia (Greek: Ευγενία), Eugenija (Lithuanian) and Yevgenia or Yevgeniya (Russian: Евгения; also transliterated as Evgenia or Evgeniya) as well as Yevheniia in Ukraine.

Notable people

Fictional characters

  • 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

References

  1. Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon s.v.
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