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I love Eugenia and it was my grandma's and my great grandma's middle name. It was supposed to have been my aunt's middle name too, but my grandma disliked it. It had an interesting story. A friend of my great-great grandparents died in a car accident a couple of weeks before their wedding and his name was Eugene. They used Eugenia after him. I pronounce it as yoo-JEE-ee-ah in English, but that is probably the pronunciation I like the least. My favorite pronunciation is the Greek, ef-YEN-ee-ah, but I quite like the Spanish and Italian pronunciations as well.