Save Type Surname (from occupation) Usage English Meaning & History Occupational name for a guide, Old French gui (a derivative of gui(d)er "to guide", of Germanic origin).
Save Type Surname (from given name) Usage English, French Meaning & History From a French form of the Germanic personal name Wido, which is of uncertain origin. This name was popular among the Normans in the forms Wi, Why as well as in the rest of France in the form Guy.