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Guy

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dumptrucksandcranes · 17/07/2022 09:44

What are your thoughts on Guy? What other names do you associate it with?

Thanks!

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ChagSameachDoreen · 17/07/2022 23:56

Not a fan. It's like calling a child Bloke or Fellow.

ChristmasJumpers · 17/07/2022 22:45

I work with a Guy and it always feels like more of a description than I name. I can't get used to saying it when I speak to him 😵‍💫

TemperTrap · 17/07/2022 18:35

I've known a few Guys. One of them was the sweetest and kindest man but the rest have been braying wankers who do too much coke and talk loudly about their money and their cars.

Spohn · 17/07/2022 14:01

Bloke or Dude for middle names?

DangerouslyBored · 17/07/2022 13:58

I love it and it would have been a contender for my son had it not sounded ridiculous with my surname.

It’s a bit like Miles. Strong, solid ‘handsome’ classic names. Although they really don’t suit babies!

DangerouslyBored · 17/07/2022 13:56

ClaryFairchild · 17/07/2022 11:20

In the UK I wouldn't, with all the "burning the guy" that goes in around England. I can just imagine kids shouting "burn Guy on the bonfire!"

Elsewhere where it has far less of that association it's a lovely name.

Eh Confused

Talk about tenuous

bitelover · 17/07/2022 13:53

I think I would like it more if it wasn't for the word "guy" i.e. an informal term for man.

KirstenBlest · 17/07/2022 13:22

I like it

ProfessorFusspot · 17/07/2022 12:55

Elsewhere where it has far less of that association it's a lovely name.

The rhymes-with-buy version has a different association in the US, where it's kind of the Frat Boy version of dude or bro. "Guy, guy, guy, guy, please like my video, guy." "Hey, guy? Can I get a light?" "I dunno guy, I think she's just not that into you."

The rhymes-with-bee version is fine, though.

Soundwise, I'd lump it with Clay, Gray, Jay, Kai, Ray, Roy, Trey, Troy.
Otherwise, maybe Blaise, Charles, Felix, Gabriel, Henry, Jules, Miles, Louis, Piers, Richard.

Twixchocolate · 17/07/2022 12:33

Like it.

yonce · 17/07/2022 12:32

Love it!!

SunnieShine · 17/07/2022 12:21

I like it.

GMH1974 · 17/07/2022 12:13

@userlotsanumbers Yep, the Guy of Gisbournre association for me too. Kind of has a nice ring to it

WhileMyGuitarGentlyWeeps · 17/07/2022 12:13

It's a no from me sorry @dumptrucksandcranes It's a bit like calling him Buddy or Chuck.. Just a big fat NO!

userlotsanumbers · 17/07/2022 12:12

Immediate association was with Guy of Gisbourne, but yeah, I loved Robin of Sherwood, so that's why. It's more nowadays been subsumed into a word for random man / random group of people, if you want that association?

AdaColeman · 17/07/2022 12:08

I love it, I also like Giles.

soundofsilver · 17/07/2022 12:07

The two Guys I know are both lovely.

Luredbyapomegranate · 17/07/2022 12:05

ClaryFairchild · 17/07/2022 11:20

In the UK I wouldn't, with all the "burning the guy" that goes in around England. I can just imagine kids shouting "burn Guy on the bonfire!"

Elsewhere where it has far less of that association it's a lovely name.

Oh giveover.

Luredbyapomegranate · 17/07/2022 12:05

Hotenoughtoburnasausage · 17/07/2022 09:49

I love it!
Sadly ds was born on 5th November and it was way too cheesy!!

That's hilarious

I really like it OP. Very underused.

FlissyPaps · 17/07/2022 11:58

Associate it with Guy Fawkes ….

Ontomatopea · 17/07/2022 11:25

Nice.

KurriKawari · 17/07/2022 11:24

Nope.

Amdone123 · 17/07/2022 11:21

I like it. My ds was due on the 5th November so I was having it. He was 2 weeks late, so I went with something else.

ClaryFairchild · 17/07/2022 11:20

In the UK I wouldn't, with all the "burning the guy" that goes in around England. I can just imagine kids shouting "burn Guy on the bonfire!"

Elsewhere where it has far less of that association it's a lovely name.

MolkosTeenageAngst · 17/07/2022 11:19

I don’t like it at all. I looked after a baby called Guy some years ago and I just couldn’t get my head around it on him, really didn’t suit a baby at all. I think because ‘guy’ is a slightly negative way of describing an unknown man (eg: ‘some old guy at the bus stop just flashed me!’) it felt both impersonal and a bit negative to be using it as a name. I also dislike that there’s no alternative nickname that can be used for it, although I appreciate for some that could be a positive.

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