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Eugenia

As a girl's name, Eugenia is understood to mean "well-born, noble". It had its heyday in the 1920s and has mostly fallen out of use since. Today, it is comfortably in the mainstream in the registry. Since 1900, roughly 28,023 babies in the U.S. have been given this name.

GreekGreek "eugenes"
EtymologyMeaning "well-born, noble"
Births by decade
1900s
1,106
1910s
4,033
1920s
5,052
1930s
2,844
1940s
3,003
1950s
3,363
1960s
3,319
1970s
2,360
1980s
1,429
1990s
763
2000s
442
2010s
309
Peaked in the 1920s · 28,023 total U.S. births since 1900