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Boy's name · #1637 in the US (2025) · Timeless
Few names move less than Guy — on the books since 1880, #1637 in 2025, and dependable in between. Roughly 91,000 boys have carried the name since. In all that time it has never once missed a year of the national records.
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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 10 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
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#762 in Scotland (2025) · #829 in Ireland (2025) · #1,226 in England & Wales (2025) · #3,153 in Canada (2025) · #4,319 in France (2025) · #1,373 in Belgium (2019) · #1,488 in Ecuador (2016) · #342 in N. Ireland (2015) · #632 in Poland (2015) · #397 in New Zealand (2010) · #889 in Austria (1996) · #95 in Australia (NSW) (1970).
Among 4,009 notable people named Guy:
Political leaders appear 1.76× more often than among typical names — e.g. Guy Verhofstadt, Prime Minister of Belgium from 1999 to 2008 (born 1953).
Similar names: Lonnie · Gus · Louie · Cornelius · Ray · Perry
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