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Archer or Asher?

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Algor1thm · 14/11/2022 18:39

Which do you prefer and why?

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ElizaSkye · 15/11/2022 06:55

Honestly, having read so many name threads on here- go with what YOU like. Both are perfectly normal and nice names.
its a real badge of honour on here to declare anything that’s not John or David as “awful” or “made up” - gets really boring!
I do wonder if some of the posters have actually spent any time in a school or around kids recently, because names now are so varied and culturally diverse that literally nobody would bat an eyelid at Archer (which is an old English name anyway)

ipswichwitch · 14/11/2022 23:16

Archer is definitely a name - was my grandads name, and he wasn’t American either.

gogohmm · 14/11/2022 23:04

Asher is biblical, archer is someone who uses a bow and arrow, I'm not keen on those sorts of names very American

Gummibär · 14/11/2022 23:02

Asher if I had to choose.

Archer is not nice. Even Archibald is better

Epicstorm · 14/11/2022 22:39

Asher if I had to chose either. Really dislike Archer.

Toddlerteaplease · 14/11/2022 22:35

Neither. Both awful.

ElizaSkye · 14/11/2022 22:27

Worth noting that there has been an MP, a 19thC portrait artist and an actual Nobel prize winner all called Archer - definitely an actual name

ElizaSkye · 14/11/2022 22:23

They’re both actual names, obviously. Honestly.

I like both, but Asher probably slightly more - I do think he’ll get Ash though, so depends if you warm to that

allboysherebutme · 14/11/2022 22:18

Neither. X

SwedishEdith · 14/11/2022 20:09

Asher because it's an actual name. Agree with a pp that they're completely different types of names.

Gummibär · 14/11/2022 20:04

Imagine Archer being nicknamed Arch ..?!

LadyMonicaBaddingham · 14/11/2022 19:35

Asher, if I had to choose. Archer is dreadful.

I must admit that I don't particularly like Asher either, though it's the best of the two by a country mile.

Rauha · 14/11/2022 19:26

Asher

Lesserspottedmama · 14/11/2022 19:25

Two very different names IMO. Archer is like Hunter, Tyler, Fletcher etc - what I tend to think of as American names. Which is not to say that is a bad thing at all. Asher is a bible name like Levi, Jacob, Seth etc and therefore seems more traditional. I prefer Asher. I personally wouldn’t choose Archer simply because of how many Archie’s there are in Britain.

FayCarew · 14/11/2022 19:20

Is one of those Sugar, Sugar and the other a Brimful of..?
My evening ruined!

Pocketfullofdogtreats · 14/11/2022 19:19

Asher, which is an actual name.

SheWoreARaspberryBeret123 · 14/11/2022 19:19

I now have 2 songs in my head...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wNEawM6vZf4

And....

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5LBnMRWeV-E

GoldenCupidon · 14/11/2022 19:14

OK that was weird - anyway in answer I like both, although Archer will probably generate more comments about The Archers or Archers and lemonade as a PP said (who must be about the same age as me :)).

Asher is a beautiful biblical name and has always been on my list.

MollieMarie · 14/11/2022 18:59

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It's a biblical name. It's nothing to do with the name Ashley.

ConnieTucker · 14/11/2022 18:59

Asher. Love it. One of Jacob’s sons.

NowWhatBipolar · 14/11/2022 18:57

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This is really fucking offensive to me as a pagan. Taking the worst bullshit stereotypes about witchcraft and embellishing them. Ashley is a popular 90s name and the only person knocking around graveyards in the 90s was Buffy the Vampire Slayer and occasionally the Backstreet Boys. It also wasn’t the name OP asked about.

FayCarew · 14/11/2022 18:55

Of the two, Asher. Archer is awful.

Archer - smart, modern, in keeping with the following trend to resurrect old profession names. I like it . Distinctive too, not too common, as in Mason, etc
You could add Butcher, Barker, Cartwright and Costermonger

oncefromsydney · 14/11/2022 18:55

I like Archer. My grandfather born in 1911 was called Archer but always known as Archie.

Sparklingbrook · 14/11/2022 18:55

Neither. What else have you got.

Beees · 14/11/2022 18:55

To be honest both will most likely just blend into the current sea of boys names beginning with A think Alfie, Albie, Arthur, Arlo and Artie etc

Also Archer will most likely just become another Archie and given how popular and overdone it is he will inevitably be one of many.

Neither would be a great choice to be honest.