Guy
Fewer than 700 men in Poland carry this germanic name, rare enough that most Poles have never met one. At root it means "wood", and the flow of newborns has dwindled to none.
Guy Pronunciation
Guy is pronounced GOO-ih (/ˈguɨ/).
What Guy means
Where Guy comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Guy begins in the Germanic word wido, meaning wood or wide. It reached English by way of Norman French, where the older form settled into Gui, and the spelling Guy stayed put. There are no diminutives to soften it, no feminine twin. The name stands on its own.
The French and the English both took to it. Medieval readers followed the adventures of Guy of Warwick, a knight of English romance, while later history handed the name to Guy Fawkes, arrested in 1605 for the plot against Parliament. His first name slid into common speech: a burnt effigy became a guy, and in time so did any ordinary man.
Under all of that sits the plain sense of wido: trees, a stretch of forest, open ground. Written into a Polish class register, Guy reads short and blunt, one hard syllable among the Piotrs and Jakubs. The root still points back to the Germanic wido, wood.
How many people are named Guy
1 in 31718 men in Poland is named Guy. 676 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1142 among male names.
Guy's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been falling steadily since 2000.
Guy as a middle name
Guy is a first name for 676 men in Poland and a middle name for another 98, an 87/13 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 719th, between Dean (98) and Salvador (98).
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#717 Anders98
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#718 Dean98
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#719 Guy98
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#720 Salvador98
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#721 Constantin97