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Eugena vs Eugenio

American parents have registered 4,984 Eugenios since 1880, against 1,151 Eugenas. Eugenio is still ahead, with 36 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Eugena against Eugenio, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Eugena Eugenio

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Eugenio has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1884 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1965, when Eugena had 33 and Eugenio had 44.

Side by side

  Eugena Eugenio
Total US births 1,1514,984
Most in one year 3382
Babies in 2025 under 536
Estimated living today 9203,700
Median age today 5338
Peak year 19651982
Best rank 2,031st girls995th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked3,240th
First recorded 19141884
Girls / boys 1,151 / 00 / 4,984

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Eugenas alive today are over 53; half the Eugenios are over 38. That is 15 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Eugena Eugenio
France 5395

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Eugena and Eugenio.