Name help! (Meghan markle stole ours)

[JusRol]

Due a baby boy in three days time, we had decided months ago on Archie. Then the royal baby came along! It was already a popular name I'm aware but feel it'll sky rocket now MM has used it and it's put us off. So we're back at the drawing board!

Previous names we'd considered are:

Frankie (Franklin on BC)
Freddy (Fred on BC)
Luca
Alfie
Arlo
Eli
Joe

Open to new suggestions as well!

I’m not keen on Arlo or Eli but your other names are lovely. I like Joe but would probably go with Joey. I like the ie/ey sound
If you love Archie, try not to let it put you off. It may actually go down in popularity as people, like you, are put off. Just a thought

Like Eli
Joe is great but only if it’s Joseph

Frankie (Franklin on BC) - ok
Freddy (Fred on BC) - ok
Luca - very common now
Alfie - massively common now
Arlo - ok
Eli - no
Joe - bit dull

If you love Archie, then Alfie is the most similar.

Alfie is the most similar to Archie so I’d go with that

Just Meghan? Not Harry?

Frankie - sort of see it as a girls
name these days,

Franklin could be cool
and unusual
Freddy- like Freddy... Fred not so

much
Luca- like it alot
Alfie- don't like it at all
Arlo-dont like it at all
Eli-its ok
Joe- like it, it sounds like a cool and kind boys name.... For some reason

What about Milo?

She's done you a favour, IMO.

From your list I'd go for Luca, Eli or Joseph, nn Joe.

I like Joel.

I'd still use it. What's the problem.
Not even the Royals own a name.
Other ideas, though.
Albie. Arnie. Dougie. Teddy. Stanley.
Lenny. Richie.

Eli or Joe if short for Joseph

I really like Franklin/Frankie

Just use it.. my favourite boys name is George and I don’t much care there is a Prince George nor do I care it’s super popular. It’s my fav name & the name I went to call my child..

But on your list, Arlo is nice but I know four Arlos in one toddler group if that’s your concern.. Joe is nice, I like Joey & Joseph! Less common these days I recon..

With both Alfie and Freddy on your list, what about Alfred, known as Freddy but giving him the Alfie option if he turns out to suit that better?

I also like Joel.

What about something like Jasper or Milo/Mylo?

Jonty (short for Jonathan) or Monty (Montgomery) if you are keen on a "ie" ending name.

Frankie or joe
Alfie and freddy have been done to death

Frankie (Franklin on BC) - no
Freddy (Fred on BC) - no
Luca - like
Alfie - overused
Arlo - like
Eli - no
Joe - no

Go Alfred so you could use Freddy or Alfie.

I love Jos as a nn for Joseph.

Nico or Miles are other options.

I also love Billy as a nn for William.

I like ordinary snowflake suggestion of Alfred to then have the Alfie and Freddy options! Also Alf is very cute.

If not then just Alfie as it’s closest to Archie

Had a thought - a colleague recently named their kid Artie? Not too different to Archie? Bit more unusual, first heard it on Glee I think but I think it’s quite a nice name!

jackson
Hudson
Raffety
Milo
Logan
Zachariah
Elijah

Luca would be my top pick from your list

Fraser

Jonathan

Adam

Simon.

Joe/Joseph is boring AF

But there's Josiah

Arlo is lovely. Luca is nice.

TBH I couldn't believe it when the royals used Archie because it's so, so, so, so overused, like Alfie and all the other names ending in 'ie' sounds. No pic wants to reach adulthood being called Archie. Surely. There's no more adult shortening of it.