Yevhen

Yevhen

Yevhen is a popular Ukrainian name. Pictured: Ukrainian footballer Yevhen Pichkur.
Gender Male
Language(s) Ukrainian
Origin
Word/name Greek
Meaning "well-born"

Yevhen is an English transliteration of the common masculine Ukrainian given name "Євген". Its Old Church Slavonic form Евгении came from the Greek: Εὐγένης, Εὐγένιος (masculine form), names derived from the Greek adjective εὐγενής, literally "well-born".[1]

Yevhen is the Ukrainian equivalent of the English given name Eugene.

Some people with the given name Yevhen

Other people

References

  1. "Євген" in Etymolohichnyĭ Slovnyk Ukraïns′koï Movy (Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language), O.S. Mel′nychuk, 1982–2006.