Guinee

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 10 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◐

Guinee is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• French surname731 records spelled Guinee25 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Nicaragua, Argentina, Italy

  Languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Guinea, Guine, Guiñe, Guinée, Guiné

• English surname79 records spelled Guinee6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Belgium, Australia, United States, Canada

  Languages: English, Dutch, German

  Also written Guinea, Guinée, Guinéa

• a separate surname27 records spelled Guinee2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States

  Also written Guinée

• Portuguese surname26 records spelled Guinee3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States

  Also written Guinée, Guineé

• Arabic surname19 records spelled Guinee2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Egypt

  Also written Guinée

27 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●

Guinee 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 Afrikaans, Guinea (a country in West Africa; capital: Conakry)

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

• In Dutch, Guinea (a country in West Africa)

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

• In German, guinea (British gold coin)

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

• In Romanian, guinea (coin)

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

• In Romanian, GUINÉE, guinee, s. f. Veche monedă engleză (de aur), a cărei valoare a variat în timp. [Pr.: gu-i-].

  as a word·DEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology

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●

FR INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) — 11 years between 1891–1991. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Tim Guineeb. 1962USAmerican actor (born 1962)

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 · 17 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Guinee?

We estimate roughly 386 people bear Guinee (counting its spellings and scripts) across 4 countries in our records.

In which country does Guinee have the most bearers?

We estimate about 299 people bear Guinee in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled guinee.

Where is Guinee most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Guinee is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 189 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.

What does the name Guinee mean?

Recorded meaning: variant spelling of Guiney.