Given name & surname
Guido
“one who acts as a guide”
Guido is used as a given name and a surname. One Italian interpretation is “one who acts as a guide.”
Original ItalianGuidone
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.
How it developed
In Italian use, Guido is used as a form of Guy.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1904. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Guido through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 3,352
- 3,352 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1921
- 140 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 boys is 6 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 140 in 1921. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 3,450 as a first name in 2020; 6,718 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.
Guido’s family of names
Guido shares a linguistic root with Guy. Guido has a related form in Guidoh. Guido has a related form in Guy.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Guido has relatives in 10 languages. Lines run from its Italian roots to each of them.
Italianwhere Guido comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 6
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 12
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Guidettipatronymic from · Italian
- Quidoequivalent
- Kvidocognate · Czech
- GwidonPolish
- Widocognate · odt
- Vitucognate · Sicilian
- Gvidoderivative · Slovene
- VeitGerman
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See also 3
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Guido
- Fra AngelicoItalian Early Renaissance painter1390–1455
- Guido of Arezzo11th century Italian monk, inventor of modern musical notation992–1050
- Guido WesterwelleGerman politician (FDP), Foreign Minister of Germany (1961-2016)
- Guido ReniBolognese painter (1575–1642)
- Guido van RossumDutch programmer and creator of Pythonborn 1956
- Guido BuchwaldGerman association football player and managerborn 1961
- Guido CavalcantiItalian poet (1258-1300)1255–1300
- Guido ImbensDutch American econometricianborn 1963
- Guido AlvarengaParaguayan association football playerborn 1970
Characters named Guido: Guido Brunetti novels (fictional detective).
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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