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Eugene vs Eugenio

American parents have registered 383,340 Eugenes since 1880, against 4,984 Eugenios. Eugene is still ahead, with 249 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Eugene against Eugenio, 1880 to 2025 0 2.5k 5k 7.5k 10k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Eugene 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

Eugene has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2018, when Eugene had 254 and Eugenio had 44.

Side by side

  Eugene Eugenio
Total US births 383,3404,984
Most in one year 9,82782
Babies in 2025 24936
Estimated living today 132,0003,700
Median age today 6638
Peak year 19271982
Best rank 20th boys995th boys
Rank in 2025 943rd3,240th
First recorded 18801884
Girls / boys 2,632 / 380,7080 / 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 Eugenes alive today are over 66; half the Eugenios are over 38. That is 28 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

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

Country Eugene Eugenio
France 106,810 Eugène395
England and Wales 5386
Switzerland 32 Eugène22

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.

Compare something else

Related comparisons

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