Guay

2,806 people in the United States were counted with the surname Guay in the 2020 census, making it the 10,842nd most common in the country. That is about one person in 107,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,806
Rank: 10,842nd
How common: 1 in 107,000
Per 100,000: 0.94

Where the name comes from

Origin French

From French Guay. This surname is mostly found in Quebec and in the French-Canadian/Québécois diaspora.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Guay described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 92.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.0%
Hispanic or Latino 2.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.1%
Black, not Hispanic 0.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.04%

Notable people called Guay

Erik Guay (born 1981)Canadian alpine skier
Philippe Le Guay (born 1956)French screenwriter, film director and actor
Lucie Guay (born 1958)canoeist

People named Guay with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Guay

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.