Guidry

surname · English · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Guidry is a surname, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Mauritius it is the 9th most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and Arabic, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: from a personal name based on the Germanic root waido ‘hunt’.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 20K◐
  • AUAustralia1 in 39K
  • CACanada1 in 58K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈23K ◐

across 13 countries

Sources
189 ●

146K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 596 ◐

Mauritius

Meaning & origin●

from a personal name based on the Germanic root waido ‘hunt’. The name is particularly associated with Cajuns in LA, who seem all to be descended from Claude Guedry dit Grivois, who arrived in Acadia before 1671.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Where in the world●

Sorted by estimated bearers.

Where Guidry is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—≈17K138K rec.1 in 20K21KGuidry189
MU Mauritius#9≈2.3K△166 rec.1 in 596—Guidry1
SG Singapore#795≈659929 rec.1 in 9.4K—Guidry2
AU Australia—≈6491.7K rec.1 in 39K—Guidry8
CA Canada—≈6441.2K rec.1 in 58K—Guidry23
GB United Kingdom—≈6161.9K rec.1 in 107K—Guidry12
IE Ireland—≈291521 rec.1 in 18K—Guidry1
DE Germany—≈234302 rec.1 in 342K—Guidry19
JM Jamaica—≈158281 rec.1 in 18K—Guidry1
NZ New Zealand—≈7788 rec.1 in 64K—Guidry3
NL Netherlands—≈4274 rec.1 in 408K—Guidry3
BE Belgium—≈928 rec.1 in 1.4M—Guidry2

Roughly 17K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 20K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English150K90%
  • Arabic5.8K3%
  • Spanish3.3K2%
  • French3.2K2%
  • Chinese1.6K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English149,73390%
Arabic5,8353%
Spanish3,3072%
French3,1962%
Chinese1,6111%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Notable people with this name●

1920194019601980Jesse J. Guidry, b. 1921Dick Guidry, b. 1929Paul Guidry, b. 1944Richard Guidry, b. 1949Ron Guidry, b. 1950Greg Guidry, b. 1950Mark Guidry, b. 1959Greg G. Guidry, b. 1961Brian Guidry, b. 1968Amy Guidry, b. 1976

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 9 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Guidry
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201021K#1,739
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202020K#1,745
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200020K#1,645
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—12#109,635
KN St. Kitts & NevisSt Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 202620261#110
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames (Census 2010 + voter-file supplement)———

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-03 data build · 6 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Guidry?
We estimate roughly 23 thousand people bear Guidry (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
In which country does Guidry have the most bearers?
We estimate about 17 thousand people bear Guidry in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled guidry.
Where is Guidry most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Guidry is densest in Mauritius — about 1 in 596 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is Guidry compared with other names?
In Mauritius, Guidry is the 9th most common surname of 594 surnames recorded there.
What does the name Guidry mean?
Recorded meaning: from a personal name based on the Germanic root waido ‘hunt’.
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About this data

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Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Guidry” — the 9th most common surname in Mauritius. Data snapshot 2026-08-31.

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