Eugen
Eugen was last recorded in 1988, when 5 babies were given it; 226 Americans have been recorded with it between 1915 and 1988 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Eugen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Eugen mean?
Wiktionary, Romanian section
Eugen is “a male given name from Latin, feminine equivalent Eugenia, equivalent to English Eugene”
Borrowed from Latin Eugenius.
Meaning: Wiktionary, Romanian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Eugen?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #7,637, in 1988; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
14 babies in 1930, the peak
Eugen peaked in 1930, when 14 boys were given it, #2,108 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 5 | #7,637 | 2.6 |
| 1981 | 5 | #6,584 | 2.8 |
| 1977 | 5 | #6,159 | 3.0 |
| 1961 | 5 | #4,255 | 2.4 |
| 1960 | 10 | #2,743 | 4.7 |
| 1959 | 7 | #3,380 | 3.3 |
| 1958 | 5 | #4,135 | 2.4 |
| 1955 | 8 | #3,043 | 3.9 |
| 1954 | 7 | #3,257 | 3.4 |
| 1952 | 11 | #2,413 | 5.7 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1947 | 6 | #3,475 | 3.3 |
| 1943 | 6 | #3,339 | 4.2 |
| 1942 | 6 | #3,326 | 4.3 |
| 1941 | 5 | #3,666 | 4.1 |
| 1940 | 5 | #3,616 | 4.3 |
| 1939 | 5 | #3,651 | 4.5 |
| 1938 | 5 | #3,688 | 4.5 |
| 1937 | 6 | #3,271 | 5.6 |
| 1934 | 6 | #3,412 | 5.8 |
| 1932 | 10 | #2,513 | 9.6 |
| 1930 | 14 | #2,108 | 12.8 |
| 1929 | 9 | #2,820 | 8.4 |
| 1928 | 6 | #3,846 | 5.4 |
| 1927 | 6 | #3,911 | 5.3 |
| 1926 | 7 | #3,497 | 6.3 |
| 1925 | 6 | #3,887 | 5.4 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,029 | 5.3 |
| 1923 | 7 | #3,585 | 6.4 |
| 1922 | 10 | #2,871 | 9.2 |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,021 | 5.4 |
| 1920 | 9 | #3,039 | 8.5 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,115 | 5.6 |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,185 | 8.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Eugen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Eugen has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 33 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Eugen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Eugen, and how old are they?
An estimated 67 Americans named Eugen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 885 people named Eugen (13 women and girls, 872 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 85 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10.4 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Eugen rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 2,262 babies since 1880, Eugen is the third most given (10.0% of them). In 2025 none of their 33 babies recorded by SSA was a Eugen (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Eugen
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Eugen and names like it
- Compare Eugen and EganBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1930sEugen peaked in 1930.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Eugen: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1930The year the most babies were named Eugen.
- Names starting with EMost given first.