# Eugenia (given name)

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).
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) as well as Yevheniia in Ukraine.

## Notable people

* Eugenia of Rome (died c. 258), Roman Christian martyr
* Eugenia Smet (1825–1871), French nun, founder of the Society of the Helpers of the Holy Souls
* Princess Eugenia Maximilianovna of Leuchtenberg (1845–1925)
* Eugenia Abu, Nigerian journalist
* Eugenia Bonetti, Italian nun
* Princess Eugenia de Jesús de Borbón y Vargas (born 2007), French-Spanish aristocrat
* Eugenia Bujak, Lithuanian-Polish cyclist
* Eugenia Calle (1952–2009), American cancer epidemiologist
* Eugênia Câmara (1837–1879), Portuguese actress
* Eugenia Caruso, Italian actress and screenwriter
* Eugenia Cauduro (born 1968), Mexican actress
* Eugenia Shi-Chia Chang, South African Member of Parliament
* Eugenia Charles (1919–2005), Prime Minister of Dominica
* Eugenia Cheng, British mathematician, educator, and concert pianist
* Eugenia Chuprina (born 1971), Ukrainian poet, writer, and playwright
* Eugenia Clinchard (1909–1989), American child actress
* Eugenia Cooney (born 1994), American internet personality
* Eugenia Errázuriz (1860–1951), Chilean patroness of the arts
* Eugenia Falleni (1875–1939), Italian-Australian transgender man convicted of murder
* Eugenia Gabrieluk (born 1967), Russian pianist
* Eugenia Williamson Hume (1865–1899), American elocutionist and educator
* Eugenia Kisimova (1831–1885), Bulgarian women's rights activist
* Eugenia Kuzmina (born 1987), Russian-American model and actress
* Eugenia Mandzhieva (born 1985), Russian fashion model and actress of Kalmyk descent
* Eugenia St. John Mann (1847-1932), American evangelist and temperance lecturer
* Eugenia Manolidou (born 1975), Greek composer and conductor
* Eugenia Malinnikova (born 1974), Russian mathematician
* Eugenia L. Mobley (1922–2011), American dentist, college dean
* Eugenia de Montijo (1826–1920), wife of Napoleon III of France
* Eugenia Nobel (1912–1999), German writer
* Eugenia Campbell Nowlin (1908–2003), American arts administrator, artist
* Eugenia Paul (1935–2010), American actress and dancer
* Eugenia del Pino (born 1945), Ecuadorian developmental biologist
* Eugenia Popa (born 1973), Romanian gymnast
* Eugenia Popescu-Județ (1925–2011), Romanian dancer
* Eugenia Price (1916–1996), American author
* Eugenia Rasponi (1873–1958), Italian noblewoman, suffragist, and businesswoman
* Eugenia Ravasio (1907–1990), Italian Catholic nun and mystic
* Eugenia Silva (born 1976), Spanish model
* Eugenia Smith (1899–1997), claimed to be Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia
* Eugenia D. Soru (1901–1988), Romanian chemist
* Eugenia Tsoumani-Spentza (died 2020), Greek politician
* Eugenia Tymoshenko (born 1980), Ukrainian entrepreneur and activist
* Eugenia Volodina (born 1984), Russian supermodel
* Eugenia Washington (1838–1900), American Catholic historian, civil servant, and one of the founders of Daughters of the American Revolution
* Eugenia Yuan (born 1976), American gymnast and actress
* Eugenia Zukerman (born 1944), American flautist

## Fictional characters

* Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan, a protagonist in The Help
* Eugenia Randolph Lord, a character in One Life to Live
* Eugenia Dermody, a character in season 1 of Ozark
* Eugenia, a minor character in season 1 and 2 of Snowpiercer