Girls' name · peaked in 1882

Eugenia name popularity since 1925

20,491 babies born in the US from 1925 to 2025 were named Eugenia. Half of them were born in 1956 or earlier, so the typical Eugenia is about 70 years old in 2026. Eugenia peaked in 1882 as the #190 name for girls, and it was outside the top 1,000 in 2025.

US babies since 1925: 20,491; Named Eugenia, 1925–2025
Peak year: 1882; #190 for girls that year
Typical age: About 70; Median birth year 1956
In 2025: Not top 1,000; #2,787 for girls in 2025
Girls / boys: 99.9% girls; 20,476 girls · 15 boys
Most popular in: South Carolina; 2.19× its national share

Peak year is the year Eugenia made up the largest share of US girls, in records going back to 1880. Typical age is based on births from 1925 on, not on who is living today.

Eugenia births per year, 1925–2025

The biggest year on this chart was 1926. Measured as a share of all babies, Eugenia peaked earlier, in 1882.

Steepest fall: Between 1982 and 1987, Eugenia's share of baby girls fell by 37%, from 1 in 10,000 to 1 in 16,000.

Shaded on the chart. This compares Eugenia's share of all US girls five years apart, counting only years with at least 100 babies named Eugenia.

Decade by decade

Babies named Eugenia in each decade, and its rank among girls' names in the middle year of the decade (1935, 1945 … 2025).

Decade	Girls	Boys	Rank
1925–29	2,228	5	–
1930s	2,844	0	#387
1940s	3,003	0	#418
1950s	3,362	0	#479
1960s	3,317	5	#499
1970s	2,360	5	#663
1980s	1,429	0	#1,098
1990s	765	0	#1,991
2000s	442	0	#4,056
2010s	412	0	#4,094
2020–25	314	0	#2,787

Ranks count every name given to at least 5 girls that year, so they can go past 1,000.

Generation fingerprint

31.2% of babies named Eugenia from 1925 to 2025 were born in the Baby Boom years (1946–1964). The full split by generation:

Where Eugenia is most popular

The index compares Eugenia's share of babies in each state with its share nationwide, 1925–2025 (1.50× = 50% more common). States with at least 300 babies named Eugenia.

State	Index	Babies
South Carolina	2.19×	520
Alabama	1.90×	568
Georgia	1.79×	840
New York	1.57×	2,024
North Carolina	1.34×	644

Names with a similar story

Of the other 1999 names on this site, these six had the share of babies closest in shape to Eugenia's from 1925 to 2025, however common each one got. Each line is scaled to its own high; the dashed line is Eugenia.

Names from the same era

Other common names that peaked within two years of Eugenia (1882).

Source: U.S. Social Security Administration national and state baby-name data, which covers names given to at least 5 babies of one sex in a year. About the data