Guy (first name)

Direction and origin of the name

Guy or GUI is a male Prénom of Germanic origin. It comes from Wid or Vite meaning “wood” or “forest” or from Latin vicum (crowned plant). The name became Guido and Latin Vitus in .

The name is given in reference to Guy, Modeste and Crescence, martyrs in Milan at the 3rd century, festival traditionally in the East and Occident the June 15th (Vidovan); very recently in Occident the June 12th.

Alternatives

French: Saw, GUI, German Guidon,
: Veit, Italian Guido
: Víto, Guido
Dutch: Guido,
Polish: Slovak Wit
: Czech Vít
: Vít

diminutive French: Guitou, Guiton

French female forms:

Guyenne, Guyonne, Guyette

Popularity of the name

One wanted to allot to the name the sign zodiacal: Gemini

Guy like name of anybody or first name

Saints

Holy Guy

Sovereigns and nobility

GUI of Burgundy, duke
Count GUI, conquering of Brittany
GUI of Brittany, marquis
GUI of Valves, Viscount
Guy de Lusignan, king de Jérusalem
GUI of Italy, king
Guy de Mantoue, Italian lord
GUI Ier de Spolète, marquis
GUI II of Spolète, marquis
Guy of Tuscany, duke
GUI of Namur, count
Prince GUI, emperor Yongli

Ecclesiastics

Bernard GUI, large inquisitor
GUI Foulques, bishop of Velay, revolutionary

First name

Guy-Jean-Baptist Target, lawyer, academician
Guy Bedos, French humorist
Guy Béart, French singer
Guy Overflow, philosopher
Guy Degrenne, industrial French of Arts of the table
Guy Drut, French Olympic champion, politician
Guy Forget, French tennis player, sporting leader
Guy Johnson, hyper-realistic American painter
Guy Lux, presenter high-speed motorboat of television
Commercial Guy, French actor
Guy of Maupassant, French writer
Guy Môquet, communist resistant young person shot in 1941
Guy Mollet, president of the council in 1956-57
Guy Mountain, artist of French variety
Guy Roux, sporting leader
Guy Verhofstadt, first Belgian minister

GUI like family name

Victorio GUI, Italian leader

Toponymy

Saint-Guy Cathedral of Prague.

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