Archie
The boy's name Archie has been in the national records since 1880, with 57,535 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 301st. About 22,000 Archies are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 54.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Archie boys named Archie
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 57,535
- Estimated living today
- 22,000
- Median age today
- 54
- Peak year
- 2025
- Best rank
- 301st
- Rank in 2025
- 301st
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 1,291 / 56,244
How old the living Archies are
born that year still alive today
Of the 57,535 babies given the name since 1880, about 22,000 are alive — 39 in every hundred. Roughly 7,000 of them are children and 8,100 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1971 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Germanic languages
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Archies
- Prince Archie of Sussex (born 2019)son of Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex
- Archie Panjabi (born 1972)British actress
- Archie Thompson (born 1978)Australian association football player
- Archie Shepp (born 1937)American jazz musician
- Archie Hahn (1880–1955)German-American athlete
- Archie Moore (1913–1998)American boxer
- Archie Gray (born 2006)English association football player
- Archie Gemmill (born 1947)Scottish association football player and manager
People named Archie with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Archie is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Archie is most concentrated in Mississippi (3.7×), Arkansas (2.8×), South Carolina (2.8×), North Carolina (2.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2025
The most popular boys’ names the year Archie peaked:
Archie elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Archie | 62,430 | 16th |
| Scotland boys | Archie | 4,419 | 8th |
| New Zealand boys | Archie | 1,574 | 19th |
| Ireland boys | Archie | 1,222 | 59th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Archie | 1,070 | 18th |
| France boys | Archie | 195 | 949th |
| Belgium boys | Archie | 127 | 355th |
| Switzerland boys | Archie | 44 | 882nd |
| Poland boys | Archie | 19 birth registrations | 483rd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Archie: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Archie | 20 | 0.002% | 1,097th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Archie | 22 | 0.005% | 353rd |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Archie | 2 | 0.003% | 188th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Archie: rank by region
In 2025, Archie was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Archie | 376 | 15 |
| Wallonia | Archie | 218 | 13 |
In 2023, Archie was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mazowieckie | Archie | 325 | 2 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Archie appears in the lists for Province of Antwerp (290th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Archie among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Archie | 11 | 20 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Archie against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.