Archie
Top 1000
About Archie
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) back in 2019. Already a popular choice in England, Wales, and Scotland, where it has featured in the Top 100 since the 2000s, and the Top 20 since the the 2010s, Archie has begun to recover its status in the US, after its fall from grace, thanks to the bigoted character, Archie Bunker of All in the Family and its spin off.
Back in the US Top 1000 since 2018, it has since jumped up to the #301 mark in a recent year, when it ranked alongside other retro choices like Sonny and Otto. Similar in sound to contemporary Archer, it may well continue to climb, leaving its long form, Archibald behind.
Meaning "truly brave" from Archibald, it could additionally meaning "archer, bowman", or even "master counsel" from truly unexpected Archimedes (used for 14 boys in 2025).
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, meaning "honoring, praising" in Sanskrit.
Pronounced AR-chee.
As of October 2026, Archie ranked #301 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #79 in 1890, Nameberry popularity #166.
Editor's take: The name Archie is a boy's name of German origin meaning "truly brave".
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #1,473 | 110 | 57.3 |
| 2015 | #1,245 | 146 | 76.2 |
| 2016 | #1,340 | 133 | 70.1 |
| 2017 | #1,163 | 161 | 87 |
| 2018 | #984 | 210 | 115.6 |
| 2019 | #674 | 384 | 214 |
| 2020 | #468 | 635 | 367.9 |
| 2021 | #400 | 784 | 448.1 |
| 2022 | #375 | 861 | 493.1 |
| 2023 | #347 | 946 | 553 |
| 2024 | #333 | 1,037 | 601.9 |
| 2025 | #301 | 1,129 | 661 |
World rankings
Similar names
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- Otto
- Oscar
- Beau
- Rory
- Odis
- Maxwell
- Dexter
- Winston
- Gus
- Charlie
- Calvin
- Kit
- Hugo
- Gordie
- Jude
- Freddie
Archie on lists
Famous Archies
- 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
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"
- "Archie o Cawfield"
A ballad in the 19th century collection "The Child Ballads"