MEANING & HISTORY
What does Eugenio mean?
Eugenio is the Spanish and Italian continuation of Latin Eugenius and Greek Eugenios. Greek eu means good, while genes concerns being born, producing the historical sense well born.
This was a description of ancestry in the older word, not a guarantee of moral goodness or a judgment of a child’s worth. Eugene belongs to the same family through its English form, while Eugenio preserves a different ending.
References for this explanation
Pronunciation & syllables
Dictionary readings are kept by language. Select the reading that matches your intended pronunciation. Dots show the source’s written divisions; they are not a universal syllable count across languages.
Tagalog
- /juˈhenjo/Standard-Tagalog
- [jʊˈhɛː.ɲo]Standard-Tagalog
- /juˈhenjo/Standard-Tagalog · no palatal assimilation
- [jʊˈhɛn̪.jo]Standard-Tagalog · no palatal assimilation
- /ʔewˈhenjo/Standard-Tagalog
- [ʔeʊ̯ˈhɛː.ɲo]Standard-Tagalog
- /ʔewˈhenjo/Standard-Tagalog · no palatal assimilation
- [ʔeʊ̯ˈhɛn̪.jo]Standard-Tagalog · no palatal assimilation
Eu · gen · io3 source divisions
Dictionary reading & contributors ↗Wiktionary contributors / Kaikki / Wiktextract · CC BY-SA 4.0
Origin and name formation
Language-specific accounts from the dictionary. A shared spelling can have more than one history.
TagalogEtymology & source
a male given name from Spanish, feminine equivalent Eugenia, equivalent to English Eugene
Wiktionary: Eugenio (Tagalog) ↗ · Contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0
SpanishEtymology & source
Borrowed from Latin Eugenius, from Ancient Greek Εὐγένιος (Eugénios, “well born”), from εὖ (eû, “well”) + γένος (génos, “born”).
a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Eugene
Wiktionary: Eugenio (Spanish) ↗ · Contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki/Wiktextract. Source accounts remain in their original English; editorial summaries and filters are adapted. Attribution and downloads
People with the name Eugenio
Public figures and other documented namesakes linked by an explicit given-name claim. This is a selection of records, not a popularity ranking.
DOCUMENTED NAMESAKE
Eugenio Torre
Filipino chess player
DOCUMENTED NAMESAKE
Eugenio Pérez
Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Philippines from 1946 to 1953
The record establishes the name association, not the person’s intended meaning, pronunciation or ancestry. Descriptions are attributed to Wikidata contributors (CC0).
Use in Philippine-linked records
Public-record transcription
24
eligible source records · 2001
This spelling is reported in an openly licensed transcription of elected-candidate records. This is a record count, not a birth count or national popularity measure.
OpenHalalan / COMELEC ↗Wikidata
10
distinct person records with an explicit given-name claim
Community-edited coverage, not a census or birth registry. Examples: Eugenio Torre, Eugenio Pérez
PSA · OFFICIAL BIRTH RECORDS
Eugenio in the birth records
Exact spelling and stated year in the published name tables. Read the counts as individual snapshots.
Tables included: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024. The 2016 fact sheet lists five names per sex; the later tables include ten. Missing counts are not inferred. Sex categories follow the official tables, independently of dictionary gender labels. Explore the official tables →
Similar names to Eugenio
Names with a similar opening or ending, ordered by spelling distance. Similar spelling does not imply the same meaning or origin.
Names in this collection
- Eugenia♀Well-born
- Eugene♂Well born
- Eusebio♂Pious or devout
- Arsenio♂Form of Greek Arsenios: virile or masculine
- Eufemia♀Good speech or favourable report
- Eulogio♂Good speech or blessing; from Eulogios
- Eusebia♀Pious or reverent, through Greek Eusebius
- Higinio♂Healthy; from Greek Hyginos
What rhymes with Eugenio?
Matches share a dictionary-supplied rhyme key in the stated language. Check the recorded reading; another language or accent can change the rhyme.
Recorded combinations with Eugenio
2 source-reported compound forms include this name as a component. Each part keeps its own history.
Names in this collection
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Follow the sources
- OpenHalalan — pinned 2001 COMELEC transcription (opens in a new tab)
Source-reported given-name form in a row with a separate explicit middle initial; ODbL-1.0.
- COMELEC — 2001 List of Elected Candidates (opens in a new tab)
Original document identified by the transcription; selected PDF entries were spot-checked, not every imported row.
- COMELEC — 2001 List of Elected Candidates (opens in a new tab)
Original document identified by the transcription; selected PDF entries were spot-checked, not every imported row.
- Wikidata given-name item Q18012537 — Eugenio (opens in a new tab)
Given-name identity, native labels, language associations and explicit class where present; not lexical meaning or population frequency.
- Wikidata — Eugenio Torre (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name claim P735 linking to Q18012537 and citizenship claim P27 linking to Philippines Q928; community-edited evidence, not a civil-registry record.
- Wikidata — Eugenio Pérez (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name claim P735 linking to Q18012537 and citizenship claim P27 linking to Philippines Q928; community-edited evidence, not a civil-registry record.
- Wiktionary contributors — Eugenio (Tagalog) (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name sense and separately attributed etymology; no birth-frequency claim.
- Wiktionary contributors — Eugenio (Spanish) (opens in a new tab)
Language-specific given-name etymology; shared spelling does not prove every bearer has this origin.
- Behind the Name — Eugenio (opens in a new tab)
Consulted account of the name’s formation, relevant root elements, or explicitly linked base name.
- Behind the Name — Eugene (opens in a new tab)
Consulted account of the name’s formation, relevant root elements, or explicitly linked base name.