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Find baby name inspiration and advice on the Mumsnet Baby Names forum.

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Spencer or Archie?

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shelli135 · 24/04/2013 18:24

Due in 4 weeks, can't decide which name..... also which goes best with Jacob (our other son).

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aoife24 · 24/04/2013 22:02

Archie is such a good name and willl stand the test of time too, Archibald is perhaps a step too far.

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shelli135 · 24/04/2013 22:09

Lol thank you for your advice and opinions, I have never seen balamory. I think Archie is winning at the moment

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kneedeepindaisies · 24/04/2013 22:44

Tolliver- As long as no one says Edie Mcredie I think it will all be ok.

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TolliverGroat · 24/04/2013 22:46

Did you know she was one of the young women capering about naked outside in The Wicker Man ?

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kneedeepindaisies · 24/04/2013 22:55

Naked Edie Mcredie!

Balamory will never be the same again.

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notwellboy · 25/04/2013 09:01

Don't really like either sorry but at a push Archie.

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Laquila · 25/04/2013 11:41

Love Spencer - it's on my list but I don't think my husband's convinced.

I like Archie but I have a definite preference for giving a child a "full" name that can then be shortened, but am not so keen on Archibald. Archer?

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dontblameme · 25/04/2013 19:42

I think they both go with Jacob well :) Lots of little Archies around at the moment. My friend just had a Spencer and half of me thinks cool, half thinks hmmmm. It will depend on his character.

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MooMooSkit · 25/04/2013 20:03

My nephew is called Archie, I shorted it to arch all the time when I speak to him or call for him, it's really odd people don't like names because "they aren't proper"

I do prefer archie to. There's lots of older generation men called Archie so it seems to be standing the test of time.:)

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jellybeans · 26/04/2013 17:59

Out the two I prefer Spencer as there are so many Archies. There are 4 at my DS nursery, it's very confusing. I also heard one older boy gets called Archibald even though that is not his BC name.

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MummyBurrows · 26/04/2013 18:47

I'd pick Spencer,just because its not as popular as Archie! Archie's seem to be everywhere at the moment...

But yes they are both Balamory characters. Archie is the inventor who lives in a pink house and wears a kilt and pink jumper and Spencer is a painter and lives in an orange house...youtube should enlighten you and probably put you off both names