Given name & surname
Guida
“one who acts as a guide”
Guida is used as a given name and a surname. One Italian interpretation is “one who acts as a guide.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Italian interpretation is “one who acts as a guide.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Italian.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1908. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Guida through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 128
- 0 boys · 128 girls
- Most popular year
- 1921
- 15 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 1931. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 15 in 1921. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 164 as a first name in 2020; 2,511 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Guida’s family of names
Guida has a related form in Geada. Guida has a related form in Geeda. Guida has a related form in Geida.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 6
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Guida
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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