Yevhen
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Yevhen is a popular Ukrainian name. Pictured: Ukrainian footballer Yevhen Pichkur. | |
| Gender | Male |
| Language(s) | Ukrainian |
| Origin | |
| Word/name | Greek |
| Meaning | "well-born" |
Yevhen is an English transliteration of the common masculine Ukrainian given name "Євген". Its Old Church Slavonic form Евгении came from the Greek: Εὐγένης, Εὐγένιος (masculine form), names derived from the Greek adjective εὐγενής, literally "well-born".[1]
Yevhen is the Ukrainian equivalent of the English given name Eugene.
Some people with the given name Yevhen
- Yevhen Adamtsevych, blind Ukrainian kobzar-bandurist
- Yevhen Baryshnikov, a Ukrainian football defensive midfielder who plays for FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih
- Yevhen Braslavets, Ukrainian sailor and Olympic champion.
- Yevhen Bredun, Ukrainian football defender who plays for FC Sevastopol
- Yevhen Budnik, Ukrainian football midfielder for Metalist Kharkiv
- Yevhen Cheberyachko, Ukrainian football player
- Yevhen Chepurnenko, Ukrainian football striker who plays for FC Lviv
- Yevhen Drahunov, Ukrainian football player
- Yevhen Fedorovych Stankovych, Ukrainian composer
- Yevhen Hrebinka, Ukrainian romantic, writer and poet
- Yevhen Hutsalo, Ukrainian writer and journalist
- Yevhen Khacheridi, Ukrainian football player
- Yevhen Konoplyanka, Ukrainian football player
- Yevhen Konovalets, political leader of the Ukrainian nationalist movement
- Yevhen Kucherevskyi, Ukrainian football coach
- Yevhen Kushnaryov, Ukrainian politician
- Yevhen Lapinsky, Ukrainian volleyball player
- Yevhen Lemeshko, Ukrainian football coach
- Yevhen Levchenko, Ukrainian football player
- Yevhen Lozynskyi, a Ukrainian football defender who plays for FC Zorya Luhans
- Yevhen Lutsenko, Ukrainian football player who plays for SC Tavriya Simferopol
- Yevhen Lysytsyn, Ukrainian football player
- Yevhen Marchuk, Ukrainian statesman and politician
- Yevhen Novak, a Ukrainian football player who plays for FC Dynamo-2 Kyiv
- Yevhen Paton, Ukrainian engineer and pioneer of welding techniques
- Yevhen Pavlov, Ukrainian football striker who plays for FC Volyn Lutsk
- Yevhen Petrushevych, Ukrainian lawyer, politician, and president of the Western Ukrainian National Republic
- Yevhen Pokhlebayev, Ukrainian football player
- Yevhen Rudakov, Ukrainian Footballer of the Year 1971
- Yevhen Seleznyov, Ukrainian football player
- Yevhen Selin, Ukrainian football defender who plays for Vorskla Poltava
- Yevhen Semenenko, Ukrainian triple jumper
- Yevhen Shakhov, Ukrainian football player
- Yevhen Shevchenko, Ukrainian football striker
- Yevhen Shmakov, Ukrainian football midfielder who is currently playing for Simurq PFC
- Yevhen Vynohradov, Ukrainian hammer thrower
- Yevhen Shakhov, Ukrainian football player
- Yevhen Yevseyev, Ukrainian football defender who played for Arsenal Kyiv
Other people
- All pages beginning with "Yevhen"
References
- ↑ "Євген" in Etymolohichnyĭ Slovnyk Ukraïns′koï Movy (Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language), O.S. Mel′nychuk, 1982–2006.
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