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Eugene en · PROPN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈjuː.d͡ʒin/ (UK)
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /juˈd͡ʒin/ (Canada, US)
  • jēn

Etymology

Borrowed from French Eugène, from Latin Eugenius, from Ancient Greek Εὐγένιος (Eugénios, “well born”), from εὖ (eû, “good, well”) + -γενής (-genḗs, “born a certain way”). Parallel to eugenics. Doublet of Yevgeny, Eugenius, and Owen.

Meanings

  1. A male given name from Ancient Greek.
    • "Great praise the Duke of Marlb'ro' won / And our good Prince Eugene." / "Why 'twas a very wicked thing!" / Said little Wilhelmine 1796, Robert Southey, After Blenheim:
    • Eoghan (Owen) is frequently Eugene, and our own O'Curry, though he plucked up courage to prefix the O' to his name in later life, never discarded the Eugene, which, however, is far from being a monstrosity like most of our West-Britonized names 2000, David Pierce, Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century: A Reader, . Cork University Press., →ISBN, page 8:
  2. A city, the county seat of Lane County, Oregon, United States.
    • The cities of Eugene and Springfield announced Friday evening that they would discontinue the use of AI-powered license plate cameras connected to the company called Flock Safety. 2025 December 6, Chris Lehman, “Eugene and Springfield both announce end of Flock camera usage”, in Oregon Public Broadcasting, archived from the original on 16 Feb 2026:

Deriveds

Eugenian

Relateds

gene · Yevgeny · progeny · Eugenie · Eugenius · genesis · Eugenia · eugenics · genetics · Gene

Translations (47)

pt Eugénio (male given name) · la Eugenius (male given name) · he יוּגִ׳ין (male given name) · pt Eugênio (male given name) · vi Êugêniô (male given name) · it Eugenio (male given name) · ro Еуӂениу (male given name) · ru Ю́джин (male given name) · ro Еуӂен (male given name) · lv Eižens (male given name) · oc Eugèni (male given name) · cmn 尤金 (male given name) · ka ევგენი (male given name) · hy Եվգենի (male given name) · pl Eugeniusz (male given name) · fur Gjenio (male given name) · sq Efgjén (male given name) · az Yevgeni (male given name) · fur Gjeni (male given name) · be Яўге́н (male given name) · be Jaŭhien (łacinka) (male given name) · fr Eugène (male given name) · cs Evžen (male given name) · ro Eugen (male given name) · bg Евге́ни (male given name) · cy Owain (male given name) · ca Eugeni (male given name) · eo Eŭĝeno (male given name) · ko 유진 (male given name) · az Yevgeniy (male given name) · eo Eŭgeno (male given name) · uk Євге́н (male given name) · el Ευγένιος (male given name) · bg Ю́джийн (male given name) · gl Uxío (male given name) · ja ユージン (male given name) · de Eugen (male given name) · bg Евге́ний (male given name) · he אֶבְגֵּנִי (male given name) · ro Eugeniu (male given name) · sq Eugjén (male given name) · sv Eugen (male given name) · fur Eugjeni (male given name) · es Eugenio (male given name) · nl Eugeen (male given name) · hu Jenő (male given name) · ru Евге́ний (male given name)