Royal Baby

[Shelbe34]

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?

it wouldn't bother me

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.

I would never even consider it a link.

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.

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

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

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

@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?

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.

@Shelbe34 June

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'. )

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.

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.

No. They are irrelevant and nobody thinks of them or their kids in real life.

Archie is so popular I doubt anyone makes an instant association with the royals. Just use it if you like it!

I associate Archie with Monarch of the Glen so no, it is not a royal name.

Was Archie the amiably thick gamekeeper type who looked like a labrador in a kilt or the tiresome son of the house, @TowelCurtainBob?

He was the son of the house

FWIW I don't like the name Archie, and it gets shortened to Arch, which is dreadful.

and he was the village idiot type in Emmerdale, although I think it was called Emmerdale Farm then.

@MikeUniformMike

The old man in Emmerdale farm was called Seth

@MikeUniformMike

Actually no there was an Archie in Emmerdale. Thank you for the opinion on the name..
Would not do for us all to like the same names I suppose :)

I wouldn't make the connection as it is such a popular name.

One of my friends named their son Archie after the Monarch of the Glen character

I rather like Archie. Archibald is a dreadful name. I'm not surprised most people nowadays use Archie instead.

Archibald is dreadful.

@Minai oh my goodness how strange, mine too! I thought it was just my husband being odd, maybe not!

OP you could say that about a lot of names... still plenty of George's and Charlotte's around! If you like a name then go for it 👍🏻