Entry № 3183 · Greek origin

Evgenia Evgenia — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ yev-GEH-nee-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Noble / well-born (Greek-Russian + Empress Eugenie of France)"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "noble / well-born (greek-russian + empress eugenie of france)".

Evgenia is from the Greek Ευγενία / Russian Евгения (Evgenia — noble, well-born) — from Greek eu (good) + genos (birth/lineage). Evgenia is one of the Greek + Russian feminine names — central to traditional Eastern Orthodox heritage. CE legend of cross-dressing as monk.

Noble / well-born (Greek-Russian).

The name in its native script.

Ευγενία
Transliteration
Evgenía
Pronunciation
/ jɛvˈɡɛn.jə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Evgenia stands.

Evgenia does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Evgenias before her.

Real people
Empress Eugenie of France
Empress consort of Napoleon III + Second French Empire 1853-1870 + Suez Canal opening 1869.
1826 – 1920
In fiction
Saint Eugenia of Rome
Early Christian martyr 3rd c. CE.

Names connected to Evgenia.

The number behind Evgenia.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Evgenia reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.