Given name & surname · also French
Guile
Guile is a surname from French, ultimately from German.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Guile comes from French, and ultimately from German.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2017. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Guile through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 8
- 8 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2017
- 8 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 8 in 2017. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 771 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.
Guile’s family of names
In English usage, Guile as a surname has a related form in Gill.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
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