Guido
Guido was last recorded in 2024, when 6 babies were given it; 3,352 Americans have been recorded with it between 1904 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,010 Americans named Guido and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (30% of everyone recorded); the median is 53 years old and half are between 38 and 66.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Guido by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Guido mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Guido is “a male given name from Italian, equivalent to English Guy.”
/ˈɡwidoʊ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Guido?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,400, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
140 babies in 1921, the peak
Guido peaked in 1921, when 140 boys were given it, #527 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 | #11,400 | under 0.01 |
| 2019 | 5 | #12,810 | under 0.01 |
| 2013 | 6 | #11,206 | under 0.01 |
| 2012 | 5 | #12,911 | under 0.01 |
| 2011 | 6 | #11,317 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 6 | #11,216 | under 0.01 |
| 2009 | 8 | #9,276 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 16 | #5,578 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 7 | #10,143 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 5 | #12,697 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (111)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 11 | #6,794 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 8 | #8,398 | under 0.01 |
| 2003 | 9 | #7,452 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 11 | #6,228 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 12 | #5,790 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 8 | #7,704 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 10 | #6,194 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 9 | #6,487 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 5 | #9,788 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 11 | #5,307 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 10 | #5,643 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 8 | #6,583 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 11 | #5,129 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 19 | #3,382 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 15 | #3,878 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 12 | #4,498 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 14 | #3,880 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 18 | #3,005 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 15 | #3,248 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 10 | #4,240 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 17 | #2,872 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 24 | #2,195 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 14 | #3,132 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 17 | #2,749 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 15 | #2,951 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 21 | #2,391 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 16 | #2,818 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 20 | #2,314 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 26 | #1,923 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 20 | #2,273 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 13 | #2,966 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 15 | #2,595 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 21 | #2,003 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 25 | #1,790 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 21 | #2,005 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 18 | #2,157 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 17 | #2,077 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 27 | #1,525 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 25 | #1,552 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 22 | #1,668 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 23 | #1,639 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 28 | #1,496 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 32 | #1,385 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 28 | #1,491 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 24 | #1,662 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 25 | #1,638 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 13 | #2,339 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 12 | #2,420 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 24 | #1,650 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 26 | #1,550 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 17 | #1,927 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 31 | #1,369 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 20 | #1,732 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 20 | #1,720 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 21 | #1,657 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 20 | #1,672 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 20 | #1,681 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 15 | #1,975 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 20 | #1,710 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 17 | #1,784 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 9 | #2,465 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 7 | #2,965 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 21 | #1,551 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 15 | #1,903 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 15 | #1,849 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 20 | #1,537 | 0.02 |
| 1939 | 17 | #1,667 | 0.02 |
| 1938 | 23 | #1,415 | 0.02 |
| 1937 | 27 | #1,295 | 0.03 |
| 1936 | 27 | #1,278 | 0.03 |
| 1935 | 25 | #1,373 | 0.02 |
| 1934 | 34 | #1,137 | 0.03 |
| 1933 | 35 | #1,110 | 0.04 |
| 1932 | 40 | #1,065 | 0.04 |
| 1931 | 53 | #882 | 0.05 |
| 1930 | 73 | #745 | 0.07 |
| 1929 | 63 | #822 | 0.06 |
| 1928 | 86 | #684 | 0.08 |
| 1927 | 85 | #704 | 0.08 |
| 1926 | 74 | #745 | 0.07 |
| 1925 | 119 | #572 | 0.11 |
| 1924 | 118 | #586 | 0.10 |
| 1923 | 119 | #572 | 0.11 |
| 1922 | 119 | #591 | 0.11 |
| 1921 | 140 | #527 | 0.13 |
| 1920 | 89 | #678 | 0.08 |
| 1919 | 104 | #588 | 0.11 |
| 1918 | 104 | #601 | 0.10 |
| 1917 | 103 | #588 | 0.11 |
| 1916 | 93 | #605 | 0.10 |
| 1915 | 101 | #565 | 0.12 |
| 1914 | 88 | #527 | 0.13 |
| 1913 | 67 | #525 | 0.13 |
| 1912 | 47 | #596 | 0.11 |
| 1911 | 13 | #947 | 0.06 |
| 1910 | 13 | #894 | 0.07 |
| 1909 | 14 | #776 | 0.09 |
| 1908 | 8 | #1,056 | 0.05 |
| 1907 | 5 | #1,416 | 0.03 |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,153 | 0.05 |
| 1904 | 7 | #1,008 | 0.05 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Guido a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Guido has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 111 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Guido: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Guido, and how old are they?
1,010 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 30% of the 3,352 Americans ever recorded as Guido. The median Guido alive today is 53 years old; half are between 38 and 66.
The 2020 Census counted 3,450 people named Guido (5 women and girls, 3,445 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,157 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.0 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 69 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 277 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 290 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 218 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 134 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 17 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Guido born?
The states with the most babies named Guido are New York, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, with 67% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Massachusetts is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 623 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 357 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Massachusetts | 235 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| California | 228 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Rhode Island | 110 | not ranked | 5.4× |
| Illinois | 102 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| New Jersey | 61 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 45 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Connecticut | 44 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 15 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Guido is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Guido is most over-represented in Rhode Island: since 1910 it was given 5.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Guido with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Guido
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Guido and names like it
- Compare Guido and AmericoBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sGuido peaked in 1921.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Guido since 1910.
- Italian namesWiktionary’s origin for Guido: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1921The year the most babies were named Guido.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Guido alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with GMost given first.