girls:
360 births since 2008
#5356 (6th percentile)
boys:
24.6k births since 1880
#731 (84th percentile)
overall:
25k births since 1880
#1611 (79th percentile)
The name Archer is the #1,611 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 24,992 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 79.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 79.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #731 (84.1% percentile) for all time with 24,632 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,356 (6.3% percentile) for all time with 360 births since 2008.
Archer has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 2008 for girls). Birth data for Archer is available in 117 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (117 years for boys and 16 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Archer has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Archer reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 86.9% percentile (ranked #122) with 1,558 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 1,558 births per million (ranked 86.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1990, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Archer is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #127 (86.2% percentile) with 1,539 births per million.
For girls, Archer reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 3.2% percentile (ranked #906) with 20 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 20 births per million (ranked 3.2% percentile). Over the past 5 years, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Archer ranks #923 for girls (2.5% percentile) with 17 births per million, which is 84.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Archer".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Archer. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Archer is pronounced as AHR-cher, which has 2 syllables.
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