Eugenie

Eugenie is the French and English feminine form of the Greek name Eugenios, derived from the Greek elements eu, meaning "well" or "good," and genos, meaning "born" or "race," giving the overall sense of "well-born" or "noble." The name gained widespread prominence through Saint Eugenia of Rome, an early Christian martyr, and later through Empress Eugénie de Montijo, the Spanish-born consort of Napoleon III, who brought the name considerable fashionable currency in the nineteenth century. Related forms include Eugenia, the Latinate version common across southern and eastern Europe, as well as the masculine Eugenius and Eugene.