Eugene
Eugene is ranked 870th among boys in 2024 (276 births). Its best rank was 20th, in 1927–1929.
- Rank in 2024
- #870up 48 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 2760.02% of boys
- Peak year
- 19279,742 births
- Best rank
- #20first in 1927
- Since 1880
- 383,085people given the name
The story in the numbers
380,453 boys have been named Eugene in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1927, with 9,742 births — 0.86% of all boys recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 276 births in 2024, against 9,742 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1937, and the 1920s alone account for 22%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 78 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 2,632 girls have also been given it, 0.69% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Eugene | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 3,430 | |
| 1890s | 4,303 | |
| 1900s | 5,909 | |
| 1910s | 35,160 | |
| 1920s | 84,755 | |
| 1930s | 70,939 | |
| 1940s | 57,273 | |
| 1950s | 48,279 | |
| 1960s | 29,310 | |
| 1970s | 16,534 | |
| 1980s | 10,560 | |
| 1990s | 6,088 | |
| 2000s | 3,743 | |
| 2010s | 2,844 | |
| 2020s | 1,326 |
In 1927, its biggest year
Eugene was the 20th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1927 were Robert, John, James, William and Charles. See all of 1927.
Names that rose and fell with Eugene
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Rollandpeak 1928
- Delbertpeak 1932
- Normanpeak 1928
- Rolandpeak 1924
- Leroypeak 1924
- Wallacepeak 1923
- Carrollpeak 1934
- Burtonpeak 1925
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.