Lugene
Feminine
Lugene is given to both — 665 girls and 747 boys since 1880. See Lugene as a boy nameSee other names given to both
Lugene is recorded for boys and girls alike and ends in the tail of a Greek name that Europe has used for two thousand years. One Russian carrying that name is the hero of a book that Russians quote from memory.
How old is the name Lugene?
Lugene first appears in US birth records in 1912 — 113 years ago. The typical Lugene alive today was born around 1954, making them about 71 years old. About 400 people named Lugene are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Lugene most popular?
Lugene peaked in 1956, reaching #1222 nationally. See the whole 1956 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Lugene
Eugene Onegin is a novel written entirely in verse, in a stanza form its author invented for it, and Russians learn long stretches of it at school and can still produce them decades later. The plot is simple and devastating: a bored young man rejects a girl who writes him a letter, kills his friend in a pointless duel, and meets her years later married and unavailable. Translating it is a famous impossibility, because the whole point is the meter. It is the sort of book that a language organizes itself around, and the hero's name is this one in Russian dress.
Meaningnot established
Not established
The ending belongs to Eugene, from the Greek for well-born, which is documented. The front is a free syllable and this pairing is not recorded.
Pronouncing Lugene
loo-JEEN
Two syllables with the weight on the second and a soft g. LOO-jeen, with the stress in front, is also heard.
Nicknames for Lugene
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1912
- Most girls named
- 195673 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1222reached in 1956
- Change vs 1963
- −28.6%5 in 1966, from 7
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Lugenes among us
people named Lugene are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Lugene sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Gene comes off the back of it as a short form and needs no explaining.
- It is recorded for boys and for girls, so it leaves a question open rather than closing it.
- It is short on paper and quick to write.
- This spelling is split almost evenly between boys and girls, which most readers will not expect.
- Two stress patterns are in circulation and the spelling settles neither.
- No origin is documented, so the meaning question belongs to the ending only.
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Frequently asked
- How many Lugenes are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 400 people named Lugene are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Lugene in 2025?
- Lugene is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Lugene with classmates?
- Lugene will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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