Guy

Where Guy comes from

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.
— Wiktionary's entry for Guy
  • Germanic
  • Hebrew
  • 1 syllable
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1570
    Guy Fawkes born
    English member of the Gunpowder Plot of 1605
  2. 1850
    Guy de Maupassant born
    French writer
  3. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #68 among boys — 239 babies in the first year on record.
  4. 1892
    Peak, #65
    315 babies named Guy — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2005
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,081.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from the Germanic languages.
  • A male given name from Hebrew.
Namesakes
  • Guy de Maupassant · French writer, 1850–1893
  • Guy Fawkes · English member of the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, 1570–1606
  • Guy Verhofstadt · Prime Minister of Belgium from 1999 to 2008, born 1953
  • Guy Ritchie · English filmmaker, born 1968
  • Guy Pearce · Australian actor, born 1967

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.