Eugene

4,713 people in the United States were counted with the surname Eugene in the 2020 census, making it the 6,870th most common in the country. That is about one person in 63,400.

By the numbers

People: 4,713
Rank: 6,870th
How common: 1 in 63,400
Per 100,000: 1.6

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Eugene described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Black, not Hispanic 84.9%
White, not Hispanic 7.0%
Hispanic or Latino 4.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Eugene

Eugene (born 1981)South Korean singer and actress
Frank Eugene (1865–1936)American-German photographer, painter and graphic artist
Eugène, 8th Prince of Ligne (1804–1880)Belgian politician
Eugène, 11th Prince of Ligne (1893–1960)Prince of Ligne

People named Eugene with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Also a first name

Eugene has been given to 383,340 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1927. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.