Guido
A Latinized name built on an old word for wood or forest, though Poles more often read it as przewodnik, a guide. Only 236 men carry it, so most people here have never met one.
Guido Pronunciation
Guido is pronounced goo-EE-do (/guˈidɔ/).
What Guido means
Where Guido comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name Guido reaches back to a Latinized form with Germanic roots, built on an old word for wood or forest. That older sense, wood and forest, is the literal ground under the name, older than any of the meanings later readers gave it.
Italy is where Guido found a home. Guido d'Arezzo, a Benedictine monk who taught around the year 1000, gave Europe a way to write music on lines, the ancestor of the staff still used today. Painters carried the name too, among them Guido Reni of Bologna.
In Polish the name is often glossed as przewodnik, a guide. That reading came later, pulled toward the Italian verb guidare, to lead. The forest at the root stayed put while the sense of guiding grew beside it. Read out from a school register, Guido still marks a child as somewhat Italian. The meaning underneath remains wood, forest.
How many people are named Guido
1 in 90450 men in Poland is named Guido. 236 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2021 among male names.
Guido as a middle name
Guido is a first name for 236 men in Poland and a middle name for another 53, an 82/18 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1032nd, between Emeka (53) and Mirek (53).
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#1030 Chaim53
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#1031 Emeka53
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#1032 Guido53
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#1033 Mirek53
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#1034 Moises53