Guy is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
Guy is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth boy, and therefore ranks at 1170 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,169 boys names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. In the entire USA, approximately 78,966 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Guy. That is 0.02 % of all living Americans.
Appearing throughout the time in the United States, the name Guy is a staple in the country: Boys have been given the name Guy for more than 140 years, according to official U.S. naming statistics. Therefore, Guy is one of the 442 boys' names, that have been given to newborn sons every year since 1880. Even beyond that, Guy is a very special name that peaked in popularity over 100 years ago in the 19th century, ranking in the top 100 boys' names in our SmartGenius first name statistics: Placed at #63 Guy has never been more popular than back in 1892.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Guy was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
As many as 126 babies were named Guy in the USA in 2022, ranking it #1,319 on the list of the most popular boys' names for that year. However, it experienced its lowest point of popularity in 2021, when it was only ranked at #1,390 of all male names in our SmartGenius statistics - back then 116 boys were named Guy.
The name Guy may not be in the top rankings of the most popular boys’ names, but it is one of the few male given names, along with only 385 others, that can be found in every single state in the U.S. from Alaska to Florida and from California to New York. Of course, the name occurs more frequently in some states than in others – and Guy is apparently especially popular in Hawaii. Although the name is not one of the top 100 most popular men’s names here either, one in 612 men in Hawaii is called Guy. In total, that’s 888 people who feel addressed when the name Guy is shouted loudly across Hawaii and who ensure that their name makes it to #149 in our SmartGenius ranking of the most common male names in this nice state. If you asked all people in the entire U.S. for their first name, you would hear Guy as the answer a total of 78,966 times. This places Guy at #329 in our SmartGenius statistics for the most popular male names in the whole of the USA. This is true for all currently living people across all states and age groups – the recent popularity of the name Guy as a baby name is, of course, a bit different, as you can see from the statistics above.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter G is not really common as a first letter for boys' names: only 2.8% of all common boys' names in the US begin with G. By the way, the most common first letters of boys' names are J, A and D, while X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names.
With only three letters, the name Guy is obviously very short. In fact, only 1.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly three letters. Just 0.2% of all first names are even shorter and only have two letters, while nearly 99% of all boys’ and girls’ names use more than three letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 2.8% of all boys' names beginning with a G, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are boys' names with G that are quite popular, the most common at present is George.
If your name is Guy and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Guy, you can simply say:
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The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Guy
Guy
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
G
U
Y
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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U
Y
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Guy sounds like this:
