In 2025, 61 US girls were named Eugenia, making it the 2,787th most common girls’ name of the year, up 989 places from #3,776 in 2024. That is 21 more than the 40 girls named Eugenia in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #190, reached in 1882. The most girls given the name in a single year was 606, in 1921. For comparison, it was #4,094 in 2015 and #433 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Eugenia in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 40 babies with the name. In all, 29,944 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 5,052 babies named Eugenia.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 494 US girls were named Eugenia; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 61. In 2025 that was about 1 in 26,349 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Eugenia ranked highest in Texas in 2025, at #990 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Eugenie (3,415 babies since 1880) and Eugenio (4,984 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Eugena, Evgenia and Euginia are summarised on this page.
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