Yevhen

Yevhen

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

Other people

References

  1. ↑ "Євген" in Etymolohichnyĭ Slovnyk Ukraïns′koï Movy (Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language), O.S. Mel′nychuk, 1982–2006.
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