girls:
1.3k births since 1887
#4437 (22nd percentile)
boys:
54.1k births since 1880
#471 (90th percentile)
overall:
55.4k births since 1880
#1010 (87th percentile)
The name Archie is the #1,010 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 55,350 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 87.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 87.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #471 (89.7% percentile) for all time with 54,064 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #4,437 (22.4% percentile) for all time with 1,286 births since 1887.
Archie has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1887 for girls).
The name Archie has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Archie reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 74.5% percentile (ranked #137) with 1,005 births per million. The name was most common in 1890, with 1,846 births per million (ranked 66.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2002, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Archie ranks #328 for boys (64.1% percentile) with 513 births per million, which is 27.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Archie reached its peak popularity in 1927, achieving the 6.3% percentile (ranked #565) with 35 births per million. The name was most common in 1902, with 43 births per million (ranked 2.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Archie".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Archie. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 66.7% confident that Archie is pronounced as AHR-chee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AHR-kee, at 33.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like AA1 R CH IY0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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