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Re: The name Eugenia
The prefix for this name is Greek and suggests kindness and beneficial beavior protective feel.
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More literally, EUGENIA means, "[born of] good genes," a.k.a. "nobility."
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Genes, a word of 20th C origin, have nothing to do with it. It just means "well born".
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