Eugene (given name)

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Eugene
Gender Male
Origin
Word/Name Greek
Meaning "noble", "well-born"
Other names
Related names Gene
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Eugene is a common (masculine) first name that comes from the Greek εὐγενής (eugenēs), "noble", literally "well-born",[1] from εὖ (eu), "well"[2] and γένος (genos), "race, stock, kin".[3] Gene is a common shortened form. The feminine variant is Eugenia or Eugénie.

Male foreign-language variants include:

Albanian Eugjeni
Asturian Euxeniu
Basque Euken(i)
Belarusian Jauhien/Yaugen/Yauhen (Яўген)
Breton Ujan
Bulgarian Евгени (Evgeni)
Catalan Eugeni
Croatian Eugen
Czech Evžen
Dutch Eugeen
Esperanto Eŭgeno
French Eugène, Yvain
Galician Uxío
German Eugen
Greek Ευγένιος (Evgénios)
Hungarian Jenő
Hindi Ugine, Ujin, Yujin, Ugister [citation needed]
Irish Eóghan,[4][5] (Eóġan pre 1948)
Italian Eugenio
Korean Yu-jin (유진)
Latin Eugenius
Latvian Eugenijs/Eižens
Lithuanian Eugenijus
Macedonian Евгениј (Evgenij, Yevgenij)
Occitan Eugèni
Romanian Eugen, Eugeniu
Piedmontese Genio
Polish Eugeniusz
Portuguese Eugênio
Russian Евгений (transliterated as Evgeni, Evgeniy, Evgeny, Evgenii, Evgueni, Eugeny, Eugeniy, Ievgeny, Jevgeni, Jevgeny, Yevgeny, Yevgeni, Yevgeniy)
Scottish Gaelic Eoghann,[5] Ewan, Ewan, Euan
Serbian Еуген (Eugen), Евгеније (Evgenije)
Sicilian Eugeniu
Slovakian Eugen
Slovenian Eugen
Spanish Eugenio
Swedish Eugen
Turkish Evgen
Ukrainian Євген (transliterated as Yevhen, Yevgen)
Welsh Owain,[4][5] Owen,[4][5] Ouein,[4] Oen,[4] Ewein,[4] Ywein/Ywain,[4] Yuein,[4]
Tamil Aujaan, Auwaan, Atthan, Ampolan, Yuganji, Sundakanji

Notable people

Christianity

  • Pope Eugene I, pope from 655 to 657
  • Pope Eugene II, pope from 824 to 827
  • Pope Eugene III, pope from 1145 to 1153
  • Pope Eugene IV, pope from 1431 to 1447
  • Charles-Joseph-Eugene de Mazenod (1782–1861), the founder of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate
  • St. Eugene, one of the deacons of Saint Zenobius
  • Saint Eugenios of Trebizond was the patron saint of the Empire of Trebizond
  • Pope Pius XII, pope from 1939 to 1958, given name Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli
  • Eugene Antonio Marino (1934–2000), first African-American archbishop in the United States
  • Eugênio de Araújo Sales (1920–2012), Roman Catholic cardinal from Brazil

Military

  • Eugène de Beauharnais (1781–1824), the stepson and adopted child of Napoleon
  • Eugenio Calò (1905–1943), Italian partisan
  • Archduke Eugen of Austria (1863–1954), the last Habsburg Grandmaster of the Teutonic Order from 1894 to 1923
  • Eugene A. Greene (1921–1942), American sailor, posthumous recipient of Navy Cross
  • Eugene de Kock (born 1949), South African policeman serving a life sentence
  • Eugène Maizan (1819–1845), French Naval lieutenant and explorer
  • Napoléon Eugène, Prince Imperial (1856–1879), the only child of Emperor Napoleon III of France and his Empress consort Eugénie de Montijo
  • Prince Eugene of Savoy (1663–1736), noted general and Austrian Field Marshal
  • Eugene Sledge (1923–2001), American WWII marine and academic

Television and film

Music

Literature

Art

Politics

Sports

Sciences

Fictional people

  • Eugene Fitzherbert, the male protagonist in Tangled, commonly called 'Flynn Rider'
  • Eugene Horowitz, character in Hey Arnold! media
  • Gene Hunt, character in Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes
  • Eugene H. Krabs or Mr. Krabs, character in SpongeBob SquarePants media
  • Eugene Meltsner, character in the Adventures in Odyssey series
  • Jerome Eugene Morrow, suitably named character in Gattaca, a film on genetic discrimination
  • The title character in Eugene Onegin, a novel in verse by Alexander Pushkin
  • Thomas Eugene Paris, better known as Tom Paris, a character in the Star Trek universe
  • Eugene (Pokémon) or Eusine, a character in Pokémon media
  • Eugene Wrayburn, one of the main characters in Charles Dickens' novel Our Mutual Friend
  • Eugene Young, character in The Practice

Other uses

See also

  • Eugene (disambiguation)
  • Eugenia (name)
  • Kevin - a name of Irish origin with a similar meaning

References

  1. ↑ εὐγενής, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus
  2. ↑ εὖ, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus
  3. ↑ γένος, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 Morgan, T.J. and Morgan, Prys, Welsh Surnames, University of Wales, 1985, Owain (Owen, Bowen, Ednowain). According to T.J. Morgan in Welsh Surnames (page 172/173) Owen is a derivation of the Latin Eugenis “ > [Old Welsh] Ou(u)ein, Eug(u)ein … 'variously written in [Middle Welsh] as Ewein, Owein, Ywein. LL gives the names Euguen, Iguein, Yuein, Ouein. The corresponding form in Irish is Eoghan.” Morgan notes that there are less likely alternative explanations and agrees with Dr. Rachel Bromwich that Welsh Owein “is normally latinized as Eugenius," and both the Welsh and Irish forms are Latin derivatives. Additionally, another latinized variations of the name Owen is Audoenus in certain parish registers
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Surnames of the United Kingdom, reprinted for Clearfield Company, INC by Genealogical Publishing Co. INC, Baltimore 1995, 1996. Entry notes that the most likely and widely accepted origin of Owen (Old Welsh Owain, Irish Gaelic Eoghan, and Scottish Gaelic Eoghann,) is from Latin Eugenius. “Cormic gives this origin for Eogan (one MS, Eogen); and Zimmer considers Owen to be borrowed from Latin Eugens, as noted by MacBain, p. 400. The mediaeval Latinization of Owen as Oenus led to a belief that the etymology was the Welsh and Breton oen ‘lamb’. With much stronger reason it was at one tme considered that the name represented Irish eoghunn = Gael. Ogan- [f.Old Irish oc- Welsh og, young], ‘youth’.


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