girls:
2.6k births since 1881
#3370 (41st percentile)
boys:
380.2k births since 1880
#90 (98th percentile)
overall:
382.8k births since 1880
#185 (98th percentile)
The name Eugene is the #185 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 382,797 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 97.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 97.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #90 (98.1% percentile) for all time with 380,165 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #3,370 (41.0% percentile) for all time with 2,632 births since 1881.
Eugene has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1881 for girls).
The name Eugene has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.3% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Eugene reached its peak popularity in 1928, achieving the 96.5% percentile (ranked #20) with 8,508 births per million. The name was most common in 1928, with 8,508 births per million (ranked 96.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Eugene ranks #668 for boys (26.7% percentile) with 137 births per million, which is 1.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Eugene reached its peak popularity in 1930, achieving the 13.5% percentile (ranked #513) with 73 births per million. The name was most common in 1930, with 73 births per million (ranked 13.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2019.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Eugene".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Eugene. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 54.7% confident that Eugene is pronounced as yue-JEEN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is YUE-jeen, at 32.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like Y UW0 JH IY1 N) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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