How rare is the name Guy?

54,143 people in the United States have the first name Guy, about 1 in 5,578. It ranks #849 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

GUY

#849

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
54,143
About
1 in 5,578
This common or more
67.6%
Who bears it

Of the 54,143 people named Guy, 81.2% reported their origin as White, 8.9% as Black and 4.2% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are male (99.7%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Guy peaked in 1957, when 2,311 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802025
Peak year
1957
Births that year
2,311
In 2025*
103 ▼96%
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 91,102 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Guy by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1880s, when it ranked #185. The largest share of babies named Guy, 36%, were born during the baby boom (1946–1964).

1880s#1852,489
1890s#2412,498
1900s#3451,919
1910s#3616,688
1920s#3589,993
1930s#4087,641
1940s#4219,015
1950s#33419,213
1960s#39515,410
1970s#6656,270
1980s#1,0023,640
1990s#1,5182,386
2000s#2,2621,730
2010s#2,6771,509
2020s#3,204701
Before 19015.7%
Greatest Generation 1901–2718.3%
Silent Generation 1928–4515.4%
Baby boom 1946–6436%
Generation X 1965–8014.1%
Millennials 1981–965.5%
Generation Z 1997–123%
2013 and later1.9%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Guy is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Guy has been most common in Hawaii (3.6×), Maine (2.4×), and West Virginia (1.8×), and least common in Nevada (0.44×).

79,515 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Guy

#847 Lynne · 54,525#848 Alana · 54,144#850 Kent · 54,012#851 Marta · 53,965

Spelled almost the same

3 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Guy, most common first.

#8,204 Guo · 1,777#11,716 Gui · 1,083#38,294 Gu · 201

Also a last name

As a last name, Guy ranks #1,133 of 156,621, with 30,348 people. See Guy as a last name

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