Jevgeni

given name · Estonian · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Jevgeni is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Estonia it is the 51st most common given name. It appears chiefly in Estonian and Finnish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: A transliteration of the Russian male given name Евге́ний (Jevgénij), equivalent to Eugene.

rarermore common
  • EEEstonia1 in 473
  • USUnited States1 in 2.3K
  • HUHungary1 in 43K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈254K

across 13 countries

Sources
89

6.5K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 637

France

Spellings & scripts

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Eugene in US United States, HU Hungary, ZA South Africa and 3 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

A transliteration of the Russian male given name Евге́ний (Jevgénij), equivalent to Eugene

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Jevgeni is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States142,6871.9K rec.1 in 2.3K143KEugene89
FR France106,4501 in 637106K
EE Estonia#518,9741.1K rec.3.5KJevgeni62
NL Netherlands3,86631 rec.1 in 4.5K3.9KJevgeni5
HU Hungary#4462,7732.8K rec.Eugene25
SE Sweden40410 rec.1 in 25K404Jevgeni5
PL Poland2167 rec.1 in 177K216Jevgeni1
GB United Kingdom200135 rec.5Jevgeni24
NO Norway12714 rec.132Jevgeni12
GY Guyana1271 in 5.9K127
DE Germany120104 rec.1Jevgeni37
ES Spain10811 rec.1 in 463K108Jevgeni3

Roughly 143K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 2.3K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages

  • Estonian9K70%
  • Finnish2.6K20%
  • English2662%
  • German1541%
  • Russian1231%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Estonian8,95270%
Finnish2,60320%
English2662%
German1541%
Russian1231%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Over time

01020304020102015202037 · 2019

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Jevgeni in SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023), Sweden, 2010–2020
Yearrecords
201012
201115
201219
201320
201426
201528
201629
201733
201835
201937
202037

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)11 years between 2010–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name

1850190019502000Yevno Azef, b. 1869Yevgeny Zamyatin, b. 1884Evgeny Lifshitz, b. 1915Evgeny Maximovich Primakov, b. 1929Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko, b. 1932Yevgeny Prigozhin, b. 1961Eugene Kaspersky, b. 1965Evgeny Kissin, b. 1971Zakhar Prilepin, b. 1975Evgeni Plushenko, b. 1982
  • Yevno Azefb. 1869BYnot in their usual nameRussian revolutionary (1869–1918)
  • Yevgeny Zamyatinb. 1884RUnot in their usual nameRussian author (1884–1937)
  • Evgeny Lifshitzb. 1915UAnot in their usual nameSoviet physicist (1915-1985)
  • Evgeny Maximovich Primakovb. 1929RUnot in their usual name4th Russian Prime Minister (1929–2015)
  • Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenkob. 1932RUnot in their usual nameSoviet and Russian poet (1933–2017)
  • Yevgeny Prigozhinb. 1961RUnot in their usual nameRussian mercenary leader, oligarch, restaurateur, former owner of Wagner PVC (1961–2023)
  • Eugene Kasperskyb. 1965RUnot in their usual nameRussian specialist in the information security field
  • Evgeny Kissinb. 1971RUnot in their usual nameRussian classical pianist
  • Zakhar Prilepinb. 1975RUnot in their usual nameRussian writer and politician (born 1975)
  • Evgeni Plushenkob. 1982RUnot in their usual nameRussian figure skater and figure skating coach

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence

Attested in 18 sources across 10 countries.

Official registers attesting Jevgeni
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
EE EstoniaStatistics Estonia — Ees- ja perekonnanimed (Population Register)3.5K#28
EE EstoniaStatistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed)3.5K#28
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)826#1,624
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)110#7,279
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)83
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)44#14,922
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202037
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201937
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201835
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201733
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201629
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201528

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 39 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Jevgeni?
We estimate roughly 254 thousand people bear Jevgeni (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
In which country does Jevgeni have the most bearers?
We estimate about 143 thousand people bear Jevgeni in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled eugene.
How common is Jevgeni compared with other names?
In Estonia, Jevgeni is the 51st most common given name of 14,570 given names recorded there.
Is Jevgeni a male or female name?
Jevgeni is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Jevgeni mean?
Recorded meaning: A transliteration of the Russian male given name Евге́ний (Jevgénij), equivalent to Eugene
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About this data

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Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Jevgeni” — the 51st most common given name in Estonia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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