Entry № 3129 · French origin

Eugenie Eugenie — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ yoo-JEN-ee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
French
Meaning
"Well-born (Princess Eugenie of York; Empress Eugénie)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (French)

A name that means "well-born (princess eugenie of york; empress eugénie)".

Eugenie is the French feminine of Eugene — from the Greek eugenes ("well-born, noble"). Princess Eugenie of York (born 1990) — granddaughter of Queen Elizabeth II; daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson; her 2018 wedding to Jack Brooksbank was the first British royal wedding broadcast live on television showing the bride's surgical scar (from her scoliosis correction, which she revealed deliberately to raise awareness). Patron of the Anti-Slavery Collective (2017). Eugénie Bouchard — Canadian tennis player.

Subject of countless French Second Empire histories.

Well-born (Princess Eugenie of York; Empress Eugénie) — a French name.

The name in its native script.

Eugénie
Transliteration
Eugénie
Pronunciation
/ juːˈdʒɛn.i /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Eugenie stands.

Eugenie 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.

Eugenies before her.

Real people
Empress Eugénie
Spanish-French Empress.
1826 – 1920
Princess Eugenie of York
British royal.
born 1990
In fiction
Eugénie Grandet
Balzac's Eugénie Grandet.
1833

Names connected to Eugenie.

The number behind Eugenie.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Eugenie reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.