Eugenia (given name)
Eugenia is a feminine first name related to the masculine name Eugene that comes from the Greek eugenes 'well-born', from eu- 'well' + genes 'born'.
Variants include Eugénia, Eugénie, Eugènia, Uxía, Evgenia, Eugenija and Yevgenia or Yevgeniya, In Ukraine the russianized form is Yevheniia, but the folk form of the name is Yivha.
Notable people
- Eugenia of Rome, Roman Christian martyr
- Eugenia Smet, French nun, founder of the Society of the Helpers of the Holy Souls
- Princess Eugenia Maximilianovna of Leuchtenberg
- Eugenia Abu, Nigerian journalist
- Eugenia Bonetti, Italian nun
- Princess Eugenia de Jesús de Borbón y Vargas, French-Spanish aristocrat
- Eugenia Bujak, Lithuanian-Polish cyclist
- Eugenia Calle, American cancer epidemiologist
- Eugênia Câmara, Portuguese actress
- Eugenia Caruso, Italian actress and screenwriter
- Eugenia Cauduro, Mexican actress
- Eugenia Shi-Chia Chang, South African Member of Parliament
- Eugenia Charles, Prime Minister of Dominica
- Eugenia Cheng, British mathematician, educator, and concert pianist
- Eugenia Chuprina, Ukrainian poet, writer, and playwright
- Eugenia Clinchard, American child actress
- Eugenia Cooney, American internet personality
- Eugenia Errázuriz, Chilean patroness of the arts
- Eugenia Falleni, Italian-Australian transgender man convicted of murder
- Eugenia Gabrieluk, Russian pianist
- Eugenia Williamson Hume, American elocutionist and educator
- Eugenia Kisimova, Bulgarian women's rights activist
- Eugenia Kuzmina, Russian-American model and actress
- Eugenia Mandzhieva, Russian fashion model and actress of Kalmyk descent
- Eugenia St. John Mann, American evangelist and temperance lecturer
- Eugenia Manolidou, Greek composer and conductor
- Eugenia Malinnikova, Russian mathematician
- Eugenia L. Mobley, American dentist, college dean
- Eugenia de Montijo, wife of Napoleon III of France
- Eugenia Nobel, German writer
- Eugenia Campbell Nowlin, American arts administrator, artist
- Eugenia Paul, American actress and dancer
- Eugenia del Pino, Ecuadorian developmental biologist
- Eugenia Popa, Romanian gymnast
- Eugenia Popescu-Județ, Romanian dancer
- Eugenia Price, American author
- Eugenia Rasponi, Italian noblewoman, suffragist, and businesswoman
- Eugenia Ravasio, Italian Catholic nun and mystic
- Eugenia Silva, Spanish model
- Eugenia Smith, claimed to be Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia
- Eugenia D. Soru, Romanian chemist
- Eugenia Tenenbaum, Spanish art historian, feminist and LGBTQ rights activist
- Eugenia Tsoumani-Spentza, Greek politician
- Eugenia Tymoshenko, Ukrainian entrepreneur and activist
- Eugenia Martínez Vallejo, Spanish court jester
- Eugenia Volodina, Russian supermodel
- Eugenia Washington, American Catholic historian, civil servant, and one of the founders of Daughters of the American Revolution
- Eugenia Yuan, American gymnast and actress
- Eugenia Zukerman, American flautist
Fictional characters
- Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan, a protagonist in The Help
- Eugenia Randolph Lord, a character in One Life to Live
- Eugenia Dermody, a character in season 1 of Ozark
- Eugenia, a minor character in season 1 and 2 of ''Snowpiercer''