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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?