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Guy

Pronounced /ɡaɪ/

Rank in 2024
#1,562
Born in 2024
111
Peak year
1957 · #149
Origin
Germanic, Hebrew

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 111 boys were named Guy, about 1 in every 15,453.
  • It peaked in 1957 with 2,301 babies, ranked #149.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 90,529 boys have been named Guy since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Guy per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. 1.0
    Greatest
  2. 0.7
    Silent
  3. 0.9
    Boomers
  4. 0.5
    Gen X
  5. 0.2
    Millennials
  6. <0.1
    Gen Z
  7. <0.1
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 16,481 babies, 0.99 per 1,000. Silent: 13,892 babies, 0.67 per 1,000. Boomers: 32,705 babies, 0.87 per 1,000. Gen X: 12,795 babies, 0.47 per 1,000. Millennials: 5,018 babies, 0.16 per 1,000. Gen Z: 2,757 babies, 0.09 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 1,665 babies, 0.08 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

From Old French Gui, from a Frankish form of Proto-West Germanic *Widō (compare Old Dutch Wido), a short form of names beginning with the element *widu (“wood”), from Proto-Germanic *widuz; see for example modern German Witold and Old Saxon Widukind. Cognate with Italian Guido and thus a doublet of Guido. More at wood. ==== Proper noun ==== Guy (plural Guys) A male given name from the Germanic languages. A surname originating as a patronymic.

  • A male given name from the Germanic languages.
  • A male given name from Hebrew.
Origin
Germanic, Hebrew
Say it
/ɡaɪ/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Guy, CC BY-SA 4.0.