Guido is a boy's name of Portuguese origin meaning “wood.” In 2024 it was given to 6 boys in the United States.
Guido at a glance
Gender
Boy name
Origin
Portuguese · German
Meaning
“wood”
Pronunciation
/ˈɡwidoʊ/
About the name Guido
Guido belongs to the Portuguese and German tradition. Its meaning — “wood” — is the sense carried by its Portuguese roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page.
In the United States, Guido first appears in Social Security records in 1904. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #525 in 1913, and in 2024 6 babies received the name — 3,352 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
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