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Royal Baby

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Shelbe34 · 07/07/2020 12:15

Would a royal baby being named the same put you off?
I do not want to look like a copy cat but the name Archie I have loved even before MM and Harry was married..

Am I being silly or would this bother you?

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ZoyaTheDestroyer · 07/07/2020 13:37

Archie was already popular before the Sussexes used it. Archie M-W won't be a working royal or have a particularly high profile during his childhood so the connection wouldn't put me off.

RubaiyatOfAnyone · 07/07/2020 13:34

We gave dd1 the middle name “Charlotte” about a month after Princess Charlotte was born.

Honestly, i never think about the royal family at all so never occurred to me.

Two catty people made catty remarks. I smiled and said “oh, really?” And carried on.

No one in the last 5 years has asked her middle name or would connect it with a royal if they did. Honestly, having a name is very different to the moment of naming - once they’re named, that name only ever conjures up them not some random celebrity.

LesNanas · 07/07/2020 13:24

Honestly, Archie is so well-used in general I don't think anyone will assume you're some mad-eyed royalist.

()I originally thought your post was going to be about calling your baby 'Royal'. Grin)

dobbyssoc · 07/07/2020 13:20

@Shelbe34 June

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 07/07/2020 13:19

Wouldn't bother me in the slightest. From time to time, when I've said my (adult) children's names, people have commented that their names and my name are all used in the Royal Family. This is not why any of us have our names, they just happen to be very common classic names.

In the case of Archie, by the time your little one is growing up, Archie Windsor or whatever his surname is will be so far removed from our Royal Family that nobody will even think of it.

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Shelbe34 · 07/07/2020 13:19

@dobbyssoc

We were going to have Archie but decided not to as it was close to the royal birth. I was quite upset about it but it was close enough that the connection would've been mentioned
@dobbyssoc: when was your little boy born?
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Tlollj · 07/07/2020 13:15

Maybe not if it was around the same time. But I’d think it’s ok now.

dobbyssoc · 07/07/2020 13:11

We were going to have Archie but decided not to as it was close to the royal birth. I was quite upset about it but it was close enough that the connection would've been mentioned

Minai · 07/07/2020 13:09

It doesn’t bother me but my husband refuses to even entertain the idea of Louis because of the royal baby connection! Angry

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 07/07/2020 12:55

No because they're all just regular names aren't they.
There's nothing remarkable about them, is there. No one not even the Royals own a,name.

CormoranStrike · 07/07/2020 12:44

I would never even consider it a link.

Topseyt · 07/07/2020 12:40

I really don't see why it should bother you. If you like the name Archie then just use it.

It was a name I might have considered if I had had a boy, and all of my children were born long before Harry and Meghan had ever met.

sleepismysuperpower1 · 07/07/2020 12:26

it wouldn't bother me