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The only Guy I've ever met was an American who pronounced it like the word "guy" instead of how it should sound as a name.

I think Guy is a name that is in desperate need of permanent retirement. It’s pretty ridiculous when you think how much it was used, when it’s objectively terrible! “Here’s our son, Guy. He’s not a guy yet, he’s a boy, but we figured he’d grow into it. Here’s our other son, Somebody- everybody’s a somebody, right? And here’s our daughter, She!” -_- The French pronunciation is simply silly in English.

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Guido is not appropriate, nor is it appealing.

I like the Gee-do pronunciation more than Gwee-do for Guido. I used to think that Guy was silly, but I like it now. It does sound really chill and low pressure.

I like the French pronunciation and it’s fine to use if you are in a French speaking country. If you use it in an English speaking country your name will always be mispronounced.

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I don’t like Guido.

Wouldn't consider Guido. I've only met one Guy, who was a very pleasant man who'd lost his eyesight while on military service but, with his wife's assistance, carried on with his former career as an estate agent. I remember going to a function where they were also present: it was held in a hall, with a space for dancing at the front, dinner tables in the middle and open space at the back where the doors were. And he asked his wife for a dance, they went to the back of the hall, and he danced very well, she didn't even try to lead. Of course, there was nobody to collide with! That said, I'd never use Guy for a child: in the USA I imagine the slang term for a male person would be inconvenient, and in the UK and certainly in my part of the Commonwealth we all remember the 5th of November and call it Guy Fawkes Day while letting off our fireworks. Perhaps it could work as a middle name, with a rather tough fn? Richard Guy?

I like Guy, if said just like the English word. If it's pronounced the French way, I'm meh about it.

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Guy feels very beatnik/hipster to me. I definitely see it's potential to be ironic. But it works just fine as a regular name, too - the actor Guy Pearce has a perfectly ordinary name to me. I know a lot of people find Guy to be too blunt or weirdly obvious, but I don't think it's any different from any other one-syllable male name.

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I always feel like Guido is a slur? Something about it feels really rude, so I wouldn't feel right using it as a name.

Sorry don't like either name

I like Guy Socrates. Yeah, in an ironic way but for real.

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I think you'd have to have a sense of humor about it even to be using it seriously. It's kind of like Wiley that way. So unpretentious it sticks out...but like it's trying to be slick in a Maverick type way or vaguely like Serge maybe. It's also kind of cute and old-fashioned like Gus. I think I mainly like it because it has that trendy 'eye' sound, though; I like Kai and Ty similiarly except Guy seems more standalone. I like Gaius but not Guido.

This message was edited 9/17/2024, 12:18 PM

I'm really sorry but I hate the name Guy. Not a fan of Guido either.