Guido
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Italian: from the personal name Guido, Italian equivalent of Guy
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/giðo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Guido is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country. In Bolivia it is the 17th most common given name.
- BOBolivia≈1 in 1K(inferred from the name graph)
- PYParaguay≈1 in 1.1K
- ECEcuador1 in 1.3K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 254 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈43,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bolivia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Germ. Wido, hypocoristic of a name with wid- ‘selva, bosque’; later linked with lat. Vitus via San Vito.
Sources 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
How Guido is read(measured from records)
Guido is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish46%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Guido in Spanish.
- German21%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Guido in German.
- English8.8%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Guido in English.
- Italian7.5%
from the personal name Guido, Italian equivalent of Guy.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Germanico, da Wido; da radice witu/wide 'bosco, selva'. Significato analogo a Silvius; talora confuso con Vito.
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
Germanico, da wid «ampio, bosco» o tradizione longobarda affine.
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
- Portuguese5.5%
a male given name, equivalent to English Guy
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Guido counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | — | ≈43,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | 102 | Guido | 92 |
| AR Argentina | #402 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | 2K | Guido | 150 |
| EC Ecuador | #254 | 13,253 | 1 in 1.3K | 13K | Guido | 53 |
| PE Peru | #501 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | — | Guido | 77 |
| BO Bolivia | #17 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Guido | 53 |
| PY Paraguay | #204 | ≈6,300 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Guido | 42 |
| CH Switzerland | #458 | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | 207 | Guido | 27 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INEC — civil registry names; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Guido is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, Germ. Wido, hypocoristic of a name with wid- ‘selva, bosque’; later linked with lat. Vitus via San Vito.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
In French, Italian form of Guy, from Germanic Wido, possibly 'wood' or 'wide'.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 93 sources across 41 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 2K | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 207 | #6,085 |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Guido have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 43 thousand people named Guido in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled guido.
- What does the name Guido mean?
- In Italian, from the personal name Guido, Italian equivalent of Guy.
- Where does the name Guido come from?
- Germ. Wido, hypocoristic of a name with wid- ‘selva, bosque’; later linked with lat. Vitus via San Vito. Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
- How do you pronounce Guido?
- A machine transcription gives /giðo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- 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 are other forms of the name Guido?
- In the etymology graph, Guy, Vít and Wido are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Guido?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 13,253 people named Guido in 2024, about 1 in 1.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Guido compared with other names?
- In Bolivia, Guido is the 17th most common given name of 14,891 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/guidoThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Guido” — the 17th most common given name in Bolivia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.