MEANING & HISTORY
What does Yevgeny mean?
Yevgeny is an English transcription of Russian Evgeniy, in the Eugene name family. The older Greek Eugenios comes from eugenes, well born, combining good with born.
The Russian written form and its Latin-letter transcriptions explain the different spelling without creating a separate Slavic compound. The social image of noble birth belongs to historical vocabulary. It does not establish aristocratic ancestry or rank for a modern bearer, who may simply carry a family or commemorative name.
Pronunciation & syllables
Synthetic voice reading
Origin and name formation
Russian
Dictionary accounts by language
Cebuano
From Russian Евге́ний (Jevgénij), from Medieval Greek Εὐγένιος (Eugénios, “noble, high-born”).
a male given name from Russian
Wiktionary: Yevgeny (Cebuano) ↗ · Contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0
English
Borrowed from Russian Евге́ний (Jevgénij), from Ancient Greek Εὐγένιος (Eugénios). Doublet of Eugene and Eugenius.
A transliteration of the Russian male given name Евге́ний (Jevgénij).
Wiktionary: Yevgeny (English) ↗ · Contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0
Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki/Wiktextract; common glosses translated for Filipino.
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Recorded combinations with Yevgeny
1 source-reported compound forms include this name as a component. Each part keeps its own history.