Eugenia (given name)

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Eugenia
PronunciationEnglish: /juːˈniə/
Greek: [evʝeˈnia]
Italian: [euˈdʒɛːnja]
Portuguese: [ewˈʒeniɐ]
Galician: [uˈʃia]
Spanish: [ewˈxenja]
Catalan: [əwˈʒɛniə]
GenderFemale
Origin
Word/name Greek
Meaning nobility or "well-born"
Other names
Related names Eugenius, Eugenio, Eugene, Eugenie, Evgenia

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' (from genos). [1]

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Variants include Eugénia (Portuguese), Eugénie (French), Eugènia (Catalan), Uxía (Galician), Evgenia (Greek : Ευγενία), Eugenija (Lithuanian) and Yevgenia or Yevgeniya (Russian : Евгения; also transliterated as Evgenia or Evgeniya), In Ukraine the russianized form is Yevheniia, but the folk form of the name is Yivha (Євгенія).

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References

  1. Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon s.v.