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Eugen

Boys' name

Desire + birth, through Eugenius

Eugen has been given to 226 babies in the U.S. since 1915. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1930, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Eugen, 1988

1 in 739,000

Eugen over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Eugen: meaning, origin, and history

Desire + birth, through Eugenius

Latin

What Eugen means

Eugen belongs to the name family reached through Eugen → Eugenius → *Awɨɣėn → *Awiganyos. Its meaning is “desire + birth”.

Origin, language, and formation

Eugen is used in Estonian, German, Romanian, Slovak and Swedish. Its origins include Latin.

Eugen comes through German Eugen.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Eugene, Eugenius, *Awɨɣėn and *Awiganyos.

Pronunciation and spelling

In German, Eugen is pronounced /ˈɔʏ̯ɡən/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 226 boys were recorded with the name Eugen between 1915 and 1988. Its highest annual count was 14 in 1930; its best national rank was #2,108 in 1930.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Eugen?

Eugen had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1988, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1988
1 in 739,000
5 of 3,694,212 births
Among boys only
1 in 383,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1988
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
512,128 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Eugen sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1988 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 512,128 children born in 1988 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Eugen. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Eugens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Eugen was born before 1934 — so the typical Eugen is around 91 today.

Median birth year
1934
About 91 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
31.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
6.6%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
68
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1920s — 31.9% of all recorded uses (72).

Is Eugen rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1930 (14)
Years since peak
95
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,108
1930

Spellings of Eugen

Eugen is not the most common spelling — Eugene is, with 63.8% against Eugen's 0.04%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Eugen around the world

Where Eugen ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2000–2000
    #3,036
    in 2000
  • France
    1909–2020
    #6,175
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    1949–1977
    #455
    in 1977

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Eugen by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#2,108
1930
Peak year
1930
14 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
1988
All-time count
226
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Eugen

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Eugen

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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