girls:
29.8k births since 1880
#817 (86th percentile)
boys:
15 births since 1927
#4571 (0th percentile)
overall:
29.8k births since 1880
#1475 (81st percentile)
The name Eugenia is the #1,475 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 29,841 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 80.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 80.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #817 (85.7% percentile) for all time with 29,826 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,571 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 15 births since 1927.
Eugenia has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1927 for boys).
The name Eugenia has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Eugenia reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 57.7% percentile (ranked #252) with 516 births per million. The name was most common in 1882, with 631 births per million (ranked 28.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2012, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Eugenia ranks #893 for girls (5.7% percentile) with 34 births per million, which is 5.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Eugenia reached its peak popularity in 1927, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #539) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1927, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1973.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Eugenia".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Eugenia. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 64.3% confident that Eugenia is pronounced as yue-JEE-nee-uh, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is yue-JEE-nyuh, at 26.2% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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