Guy
At the 2020 census, 30,348 Americans bore the surname Guy — 1,133rd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 9,849.
By the numbers
- People
- 30,348
- Rank
- 1,133rd
- How common
- 1 in 9,849
- Per 100,000
- 10.2
Where the name comes from
Origin a patronymic
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. More at wood.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Guy described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Guy
- Larry the Cable Guy (born 1963)American stand-up comedian
- Alice Guy-Blaché (1873–1968)French film director
- Buddy Guy (born 1936)American blues guitarist and singer
- Jasmine Guy (born 1962)American actress, director, singer, and dancer
- Guy (1225–1305)Count of Flanders
- Fabrice Guy (born 1968)French former Nordic combined skier
- Richard K. Guy (1916–2020)British mathematician
- André Guy (born 1941)French footballer
People named Guy with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Guy
Also a first name
Guy has been given to 91,102 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1957. See it as a given name.
Try it on yourself
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.