Guido

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled 기도 in KR South Korea.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Guido is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• German given name303K records spelled Guido18 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Germany, Netherlands, United States, Ecuador

  Languages: German, English, Dutch

  Also written Gueido, Guïdo, Güido, Guidö, Guidò

• Italian given name54K records spelled Guido6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Italy, United States, United Kingdom, Peru

  Also written Gûîdö, Güido, Ģuido, Ğuido, G꙰uido

• French given name18K records spelled Guido5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Spain, Belgium, United States

  Languages: French, Catalan

  Also written Guïdo, Güido, Gùìdò

• a separate given name9.5K records spelled Guido3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Ecuador, United States, Italy, Bolivia

  Also written Güido, Guĭdo

• Finnish given name2.5K records spelled Guido3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Finland, Estonia, Italy, Netherlands

  Languages: Finnish, Estonian

  Also written Güįdõ

• Croatian given name1.8K records spelled Guido15 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Croatia, Italy, Netherlands, United States

  Languages: Croatian, Slovenian, Bulgarian

  Also written Gvido, Гвидо, Гуидо, Guidó

• Lao given name1.7K records spelled Guido24 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Laos, Thailand, India, Italy

  Languages: Lao, Thai

  Also written Kido, Gaido, Gido, กูโด, กีโด

67 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Guido is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In French, Italian form of Guy, from Germanic Wido, possibly 'wood' or 'wide'.

  as a name·Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

• In Italian, from the personal name Guido, Italian equivalent of Guy.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• In Portuguese, a male given name, equivalent to English Guy

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Italian, Germanico, da Wido; da radice witu/wide 'bosco, selva'. Significato analogo a Silvius; talora confuso con Vito.

  as a name·Dizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani

• In Italian, Germanico, da wid «ampio, bosco» o tradizione longobarda affine.

  as a name·Dizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

EC INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) — 116 years between 1900–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Guido II di Spoletob. 855ITHoly Roman Emperor from 891 to 894
• Guido d'Arezzob. 992IT11th century Italian monk, inventor of modern musical notation
• Fra Angelicob. 1400ITnot in their usual nameItalian Early Renaissance painter
• Guido Renib. 1575ITBolognese painter (1575–1642)
• Hans von Bülowb. 1830DEnot in their usual nameGerman conductor and pianist (1830–1894)
• Guido van Rossumb. 1956NLDutch programmer and creator of Python
• Guido Westerwelleb. 1961DEGerman politician (FDP), Foreign Minister of Germany (1961-2016)
• Guido Buchwaldb. 1961DEGerman association football player and manager
• Guido Crosettob. 1963ITItalian politician
• Guido Rodríguezb. 1994ARArgentine association footballer

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 832 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Guido?

We estimate roughly 24 thousand people bear Guido (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.

In which country does Guido have the most bearers?

Guido is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled guido.

Where is Guido most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Guido is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 1.3 thousand people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.

How common is Guido compared with other names?

In Argentina, Guido is the 406th most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.

Is Guido a male or female name?

Guido is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Guido mean?

Recorded meaning: Germ. Wido, hypocoristic of a name with wid- ‘selva, bosque’; later linked with lat.