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Archie

Diminutive of Archibald, Teutonic
"truly brave"
Clare Green
By Clare Green
Updated Tue Jul 01 2025

Archie Origin and Meaning

The name Archie is a boy's name of German origin meaning "truly brave".

Archie made global news as the surprise first name of the newborn royal baby, son of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex aka Harry and Meghan. Archie has now officially transcended Archie Bunker and Riverdale's Archie to take the, um, throne as the quintessential retro nickname name.

Though Archie dropped from the Top 1000 in the US in the late 80s because of Archie Bunker's negative image, it's been in the British Top 100 since the beginning of this century. Thanks to its new royal status, we expect Archie to rise again in the US too.

Funny couple Amy Poehler and Will Arnett for their son--though they did put the full name Archibald on the birth certificate.

Archie can be a female nickname name too--Archie Panjabi, who won an Emmy for her role as Kalinda Sharma in "The Good Wife" in 2010, was born Archana.

# 333 in the US

Archie Rank in US Top 1000

# 134 on Nameberry

Archie Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

Popularity of the name Archie

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Famous People Named Archie

  • Archie Shepp
    American jazz saxophonist
  • Archibald Campbell "Archie" MacLaren
    English cricketer
  • Archie Goodwin
    American comic book writer/artist
  • Archie Thompson
    Australian footballer
  • Elisha Archibald "Archie" Manning III
    American NFL football player; father of NFL players Peyton and Eli Manning
  • Archie Moore
    American boxer
  • Archie Cruz (b. Arttu Kuosmanen)
    lead singer/guitarist in Finish rock band Santa Cruz
  • Archie Kao
    American actor
  • Archie James Beale
    also known as Archie Renaux, English actor
  • Archie Clement
    pro,Confederate guerrilla leader in the American Civil War
  • Archie O'Hara
    son of footballer Jamie O'Hara
  • Archie Hindmarsh
    son of Australian Rugby League player Nathan Hindmarsh
  • Archibald William Emerson "Archie" Arnett (b. 2008)
    son of actors Amy Poehler and Will Arnett
  • Archie David Lloyd Jackson
    son of YouTubers Ash and James Jackson
  • Archie Jay Lomas (b. 2009)
    late son of actors Jamie Lomas and Kym Marsh
  • Archie Bullard
    son of footballer Jimmy Bullard
  • Archie Heaton (b. 2014)
    son of Charlie Heaton
  • Archie Payne (b. 2014)
    son of YouTuber Kate Murnane (DollyBowBow)
  • Archie Wersching Full (b. 2018)
    son of actors Annie Wersching and Stephen Full
  • Archie Harrison Mountbatten
    Windsor (b. 2019), son of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, Duke and Duchess of Sussex

The name Archie in Pop Culture

  • Archibald "Archie" Andrews
    character in "Archie Comics" and TV's "Riverdale"
  • Archie Bunker
    main character in the TV show "All in the Family"
  • Archie MacDonald
    character on British TV's "Monarch of the Glen"
  • Archibald "Archie" Campbell
    character from Louisa May Alcott's "Rose in Bloom"
  • Archie Goodwin
    detective assistant in Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe novels
  • Archie Moses
    character in the movie "Bulletproof"
  • "Archie
    Marry Me," song by Alvvays
  • Archibald "Archie" Forbes
    main character in G. A. Henty's, "In Freedom's Cause"
  • Archie Knox
    Alec Baldwin's character in "Suburban Girl"
  • Archie
    Team Aqua Leader in Pokemon video games
  • Archibald "Archie" Cullen
    character in "Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined" by Stephenie Meyer
  • Archie Johnson
    character on TV's "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation"
  • Archie Costello
    an antagonist in Robert Cormier's YA classic "The Chocolate War"

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