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Guy Name Popularity

How popular is the name Guy? Here’s everything we know.

Year Rank # Births % Births
1910 138 200 0.0568%
1911 142 196 0.0526%
1912 138 427 0.0847%
1913 138 527 0.0929%
1914 156 546 0.0783%
1915 143 793 0.0873%
1916 141 885 0.0916%
1917 145 879 0.0879%
1918 144 982 0.0915%
1919 148 885 0.0845%
1920 153 942 0.0847%
1921 138 1,106 0.0966%
1922 140 1,097 0.0985%
1923 149 1,021 0.0912%
1924 151 1,031 0.0888%
1925 157 954 0.0844%
1926 157 974 0.0886%
1927 164 892 0.0806%
1928 166 840 0.0785%
1929 172 789 0.0762%
1930 172 804 0.077%
1931 173 758 0.0768%
1932 180 735 0.0744%
1933 173 758 0.0814%
1934 177 739 0.0764%
1935 177 742 0.0764%
1936 183 685 0.0711%
1937 180 710 0.0721%
1938 188 695 0.0679%
1939 187 691 0.0679%
1940 192 695 0.0654%
1941 191 725 0.0644%
1942 196 781 0.0618%
1943 191 812 0.0622%
1944 192 760 0.0613%
1945 197 722 0.0592%
1946 186 957 0.0649%
1947 179 1,172 0.0702%
1948 191 1,005 0.063%
1949 184 1,108 0.0689%
1950 177 1,224 0.076%
1951 178 1,384 0.0816%
1952 151 1,834 0.1051%
1953 149 1,876 0.106%
1954 143 2,096 0.1147%
1955 145 2,028 0.1103%
1956 144 2,209 0.117%
1957 149 2,298 0.1194%
1958 156 2,103 0.1113%
1959 158 2,015 0.1061%
1960 168 1,947 0.1028%
1961 160 2,025 0.1073%
1962 166 1,908 0.1039%
1963 169 1,732 0.0965%
1964 170 1,590 0.0903%
1965 183 1,355 0.0829%
1966 190 1,263 0.0809%
1967 196 1,155 0.0761%
1968 203 1,115 0.0743%
1969 210 1,161 0.0754%
1970 235 986 0.062%
1971 256 843 0.0561%
1972 267 695 0.051%
1973 287 600 0.0463%
1974 311 552 0.0425%
1975 332 491 0.0382%
1976 342 461 0.0358%
1977 350 471 0.0349%
1978 374 383 0.0285%
1979 371 424 0.0301%
1980 399 375 0.0256%
1981 415 355 0.0242%
1982 392 388 0.026%
1983 464 284 0.0192%
1984 451 298 0.02%
1985 459 311 0.0205%
1986 474 293 0.0194%
1987 479 300 0.0197%
1988 507 281 0.018%
1989 554 263 0.0163%
1990 567 277 0.0167%
1991 559 279 0.0171%
1992 621 225 0.0141%
1993 647 205 0.0131%
1994 763 139 0.0091%
1995 736 160 0.0106%
1996 790 136 0.0091%
1997 814 131 0.0089%
1998 772 154 0.0103%
1999 868 125 0.0083%
2000 834 142 0.0093%
2001 838 147 0.0098%
2002 975 111 0.0074%
2003 999 108 0.0071%
2004 1,017 108 0.0071%
2005 1,194 79 0.0052%
2006 992 133 0.0085%
2007 1,182 94 0.006%
2008 1,175 95 0.0061%
2009 1,247 83 0.0056%
2010 1,197 88 0.0061%
2011 1,160 93 0.0065%
2012 1,251 78 0.0055%
2013 1,197 85 0.006%
2014 1,180 90 0.0062%
2015 1,159 94 0.0065%
2016 1,375 63 0.0044%
2017 1,215 83 0.0059%
2018 1,256 76 0.0055%
2019 1,121 101 0.0075%
2020 1,487 64 0.005%
2021 1,610 57 0.0047%
2022 1,562 64 0.0049%

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What names are variants of Guy?

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Name Meaning Origin Popularity Other Gender
Guido

An Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese form of Guy.

Italian


What names sound like Guy?

If you like how Guy sounds, you might also like these names that sound like Guy.

Name Meaning Origin Popularity Other Gender
Coy

Son of Aodh

Irish

Gay

Lively, high-spirited; son of the fair-skinned one

Irish

Kay

Happy, rejoicing

Welsh

Key

Note; key

English


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2 Comments

  1. My son is Guy Anthony. He was named after his paternal grandfather whom neither of us ever had the pleasure of meeting as he passed away when my son’s father was only 10 years old. His memory however, as well as his blood line, is alive and well.


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