It's Alfie, NOT Archie!

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Calling all Alfie mums! Is it just me or do you get people calling your son Alfie, 'Archie' from time to time? Perhaps the names just sit together on a little shelf in the same part of their brains somewhere.

YABU.

I hate to say it but these names are completely interchangeable. They both arrived on the scene at the same time and were taken up with gusto by trillions of parents.

Sorry!

I love Alfie abd Archie and know people with children of these names. Altho just hadl a convo with dh as couldnt remember if work friends child was Alfie or Archie it was Archie.

i have friends who are sister with an alfie and one with archie i always get confused i cant help it!

Im an Alfie mum and dont think Ive had this problem.

I love the names Alfie, Archie and Albie.

I have to say these two names are totally interchangeable to me to, can never remember which is which. They look and sound very similar but they're also of the same "ilk" iykwim?

I love the names Alfie and Archie, I can imagine people would get them mixed up. In the same way people seem to confuse the names Anthea, Andrea, Angela and Anita.

My brother has a chocolate Labrador called Alfie.

I have an Emmeline, she may as well be called Emily because that is what EVERYONE hears, I only press the point of it's important now, if it's a little old lady asking her name I will say yes, Emily is lovely

I have two Archie's and an Alfie at the nursery where I work. I have to stop and think every time I say their names, but I do occasionally get it wrong. I think they are very similar names in terms of style, age and sound.

I also have a child on the absolute periphery of our family and I can never remember whether he is Alphie or Archie.

We have an Archie who's forever being called Alfie (or, for some reason, Charlie). He's a dog though so he doesn't really mind.

CaoNiMa - I don't recall the OP asking for your opinion on her choice of name. I think it's exceptionally rude to give your (somewhat unpleasant) verdict on someone else's child's name unless asked for it.

Fwiw, i don't mind in the least when someone gets my son's name a bit wrong, i usually just laugh. I have noticed how incredibly popular both names have become, having chosen Archie because am Scottish and I love Monarch of the Glen, I had no idea about how many little Archies there now are! However, it's not something i generally worry too much about! No need to be rude about it though.

I have an utter blank spot for Aidan and Aaron, Drives DD2 nuts that I mix them up.

She's amazing at names. I'm hopeless.

CaoNiMa - get out the wrong side of the bed this morning did you?

The names both begin with an A and end with ie but I don't think they are similar enough to mix them up. I have done it with Karen /Carol though, I know someone by one of those names and I just avoid using her name as I don't want to sound rude if I get it wrong!

I always have to check with DH whether his cousin's wife is Caroline or Carolyn.

Recently my DD2 has had her name shortened to Ellie or Ella. Both put my teeth on edge. At home we call her Lou or Wheezey. Weirdly a stranger once asked me if she had asthma as we called her Wheezey .

my name is always shortened to Tash or Tasha and quite a few people get it muddled and call me TRISH OR TRISHA errrm hello wrong decade!

Since you've already given him just a short variant of Alfred surely all others can be used?

Erm.... how about no? If the child is called Alfie he's called Alfie, not Alfred. That's obvious, I thought.

I have an Archie - who gets called many things including my daughter's name, but never Alfie ( which is a fab name) x

I think both names are quite sweet actually. It's because they are fairly similar, got popular at the same time and have that'used to be old mens names' thing about them.

How the hell are the names interchangeable????? Because they both start with an A and end with ie???

I would also get very cross. Some people are plain lazy/stupid

Nothing to do with the mix up of names but a friend of mine told me that she met someone recently who had twin sons: John and Jonathan!

I think both names became popular from EastEnders, Alfie Moon, loveable chap, and Archie.....ooh what was his last name? Ronnie (Veronica) and Roxy (Roxanne's) dad. Oh, I think it was Mitchell. He was a nasty peice of work and was murdered.

So I think THAT'S why people get them mixed up, apart from being very similar names, they are both characters from EastEnders! :)

I have an Archie, never met any others who live nearby.
I would be surprised if someone called him Alfie tbh.
I do regularly call him Arch, which seems to of stuck but he doesn't seem to mind, he is 3, very nearly 4 :)

I recently asked my friend how Archie was, when her son is actually called Alfie. I felt so guilty about it, was still kicking myself earlier today in fact.

She always takes great interest in my DD and I return that with her son, but made a genuine mistake as DPs sister has an archie and the names are really similar.

But they're not similar at all!

I can understand Susan and Suzanne, Carolyn and Caroline but Archie and Alfie sound nothing alike

But they are to a lot of people, for all the reasons given already on this thread.