Eugenia
Eugenia is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 40 births. Its best rank was 190th, in 1882.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 400.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1919606 births
- Best rank
- #190in 1882
- Since 1880
- 29,867people given the name
The story in the numbers
29,867 girls have been named Eugenia in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1919, with 606 births.
The name has all but left use: 40 births in 2024, against 606 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1941, and the 1920s alone account for 17%. It has spent 105 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Eugenia | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 593 | |
| 1890s | 902 | |
| 1900s | 1,106 | |
| 1910s | 4,033 | |
| 1920s | 5,047 | |
| 1930s | 2,844 | |
| 1940s | 3,003 | |
| 1950s | 3,363 | |
| 1960s | 3,315 | |
| 1970s | 2,360 | |
| 1980s | 1,429 | |
| 1990s | 765 | |
| 2000s | 442 | |
| 2010s | 412 | |
| 2020s | 253 |
In 1919, its biggest year
Eugenia was the 260th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1919 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1919.
Names that rose and fell with Eugenia
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Lenorapeak 1924
- Rowenapeak 1917
- Margaretpeak 1921
- Marypeak 1921
- Elvirapeak 1920
- Dorcaspeak 1923
- Rosepeak 1917
- Catherinepeak 1956
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.