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guay Name Meaning and History

  1. variant spelling of Gay.
  2. nickname from Old French guai ‘unfortunate’, ‘ill-starred’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of guay Families in the US in 1920
Number of guay families
 26-50
 9-25
 1-8
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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