YOO-zjen-ee or oo-ZJAY-nee
Eugenie
About Eugenie
Eugenie enjoyed a major dusting off when Fergie and Prince Andrew chose it for their daughter, restoring a patina of royal sheen it hadn't had since the time of Napoleon III's glamorous empress--who spent much of her life in England. It was also borne by Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, a granddaughter of Queen Victoria, after whom Prince Andrew's younger daughter was named.
Eugenie is the title character of a Balzac novel, Eugenie Grandet and also the full name of Scarlet and Rhett's daughter, nicknamed Bonnie Blue because of the color of her eyes, in Gone With the Wind.
The elegant Eugenie is pronounced differently in different countries. The princess says YOO-zjen-ee while the French pronunciation is more like oo-ZJAY-nee and the Germans say oy-GAIN-ee-ah.
Pronounced YOO-zjen-ee or oo-ZJAY-nee.
As of October 2026, Eugenie ranked #11249 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #413 in 1887, Nameberry popularity #650.
Editor's take: The name Eugenie is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "wellborn, noble".
Popularity & trends
Data table
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World rankings
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Famous Eugenies
- Eugenie de Montijo (born María Eugenia Ignacia Augustina de Palafox y KirkPatrick)
Empress consort of Napoleon III of France
- Eugenie Victoria Helena of York
Princess of the UK, daughter of Prince Andrew, Duke of York
- Victoria Eugenie Julia Ena of Battenberg
Queen consort of Alfonso XIII of Spain
- (Charlotta) Eugénie Augusta Amalia Albertina
Princess of Sweden and Norway
- Eugénie Hortense Auguste Napoléone de Beauharnais
Princess of Leuchtenberg
- Eugénie
Princess of Greece and Denmark
- Eugenie Ann "Genie" Francis Frakes
American actress
- Eugenie "Genie" Bouchard
Canadian tennis player
- Eugenie Anne Claudine Le Sommer
French footballer
- Eugenie Besserer
American actress
- Eugenie Forde
American silent film actress
- Eugénie Mouchon
Niboyet, French feminist author
- Eugénie D'Hannetaire (born Marie
Louis,Philippine,Eugénie Servandoni), French actress
- Eugénie de Guérin
French writer
Eugenie in pop culture
- "Eugenie Grandet
" 1833 novel by Honore de Balzac
- "Eugenie Sandler P.I.
" Australian children's TV series
- "Eugénie
" play by Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
- Eugenie Danglars
daughter of Baron Danglars in "The Count of Monte Cristo" by Alexandre Dumas
- Eugenie Victoria "Bonnie Blue" Buttler
daugher of Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara in "Gone with the Wind"