Eugenia (name)

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Eugenia Given Name
Wikipedia articles	All pages beginning with Eugenia

For other meanings see Eugenia (disambiguation).

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 Eugénie (French) and Yevgeniya (Russian: Евгения).

Many people have had this name, including:

• Empress Eugénie, consort of Emperor Napoleon III of France
• Victoria Eugenia of Battenberg, consort of King Alfonso XIII of Spain
• Saint Eugenia
• Eugénie Olkhine, a Soviet spy in the United States in the 1940s
• Eugénie de Guérin, French writer
• Eugénie De Keyser, Belgian writer
• Louise Marie Adelaide Eugènie d'Orléans, sister of King Louis-Philippe of France
• Eugenia Errázuriz, a Chilean patron of the arts
• Blessed Eugenia Smet, a saint
• Eugenia Volodina, a Russian supermodel
• Dame Eugenia Charles, Prime Minister of Dominica
• Eugenia Smith claimed to be Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia
• Eugenia Price, American author
• María Eugenia Vaz Ferreira, Uruguayan teacher and poet
• Isabella Clara Eugenia, daughter of Philip II of Spain
• Yevgenia Ginzburg, Russian historian and writer