Louis or Archie for a boy

[ltrue]

These are the top two contenders for our baby boy..the middle name will be David - opinions greatly welcome, ladies please...

[MrsMattie]

Archie is over used. Louis is lovely.

[BellaBear]

Louis

(pronounced loo-ee)

[pagwatch]

my beautiful biggest boy is Louis
He is 15 now.
He does get a bit fed up with dimwits who pronounce it Lou -iss but he likes it.
I still love it.
and he is so gorgeous and lovely..
aaahhh

[stillstanding]

Think these are both lovely names. MrsMattie has a point tho that Archie is becoming a little too popular (for my liking anyway) so would go with Louis

[chocolatespiders]

louis/louie

[belgo]

Louis, as long as you make it clear from the start it's pronounced Louie.

[ltrue]

Wow, didn't even occur to me that Louis may be mis-pronounced...
That's interesting about Archie, I live in Scotland and I would say it's still fairly uncommon here.

[pagwatch]

It does get mis-pronounced a lot.

[elijahblue]

Definitely Louis David. Archie will date.

[LouMacca]

LOVE Archie (only know of one). Sorry not keen on Louis (know of at least four).

[HonoriaGlossop]

Agree that Louis David is a lovely name - has class. Agree Archie will be very much 'of a time'. And it's not a full name.

Hopefully you won't get many people misunderstanding it; If I see Louis I think Lou-ee not Lewis.

Lovely name.

[LunarSea]

Both pretty popular around here. Two Archie's in ds1's class, along with a Louis, a Lewis, a Luke, a Lucas and a Luca!

[jimjamshaslefttheyurt]

I have both.

Louis is more common than Archie ime. When we chose the name Archie it was unheard of, then there was that blasted Monarch in the sodding Glen and it became popular (Balamory too )

People call my Louis all sorts of variations. Really you would think it was easy to get right wouldn't you!

[pagwatch]

ooh jimjam
we both have louis'

[ltrue]

Thanks ladies, you've given me some food for thought..
My dh is already addressing my bump as Louis, so I suspect it may be a fait accompli anyway! smile

[2point4kids]

Definitely Louis

[MadBadandDangeroustoKnow]

Lovely names but quite a few of them in this neck of the woods.

[pointydog]

Louis

[Communion]

Louis is lovely.

You may get an occasional misprounciatoin from poele you don't know,but I don't think that should be enough to put you off.

[yogabird]

i love Archie

[dinkymum]

Louis

[Wezzle]

Love them both

If I had to choose I'd go for Louis

[berolina]

Louis in particular is lovely, really lovely.

[AbbeyA]

I always think Archibald because I think this is where it must have come from originally.
I prefer Louis but think I would rather have Lewis.

[ReneeB]

Archie, still different enough not to be too common, but not to unusual as to outdate... if that makes sense!!

love archie/archer basically!! in my list of boys names!