Final two!

[Thesaltandthesea]

Baby boy due imminently. Big brother Oliver. We have narrowed it down to the final two:

Archie
Ruaridh (I like the spelling Ruary but DH has vetoed it)

Middle name will be Calum and we have a double barrelled surname which goes well with both.

Ruaridh without a doubt! Especially as you're Scottish.

Archie is overused, twee and yes, a little 'naff'. And full name Archibald is ugly imo.

Ruaridh vote from me too. it was on our finals list for DS 😁

Thanks everyone! Seems like a pretty even split. At this rate we might end up flipping a coin in the delivery room!

Ruaridh.

Archie is not to my taste at all.

Ruaridh . Child will love it.

Is it pronounced Rory?

Ruaridh by a long way.

Ruaridh is by far the nicer name but I think Archie goes better with Oliver.

Archie definitely

Much prefer Ruaridh

Pronounced Roo ree.

I like Ruari as a spelling op, not keen on the y so out of the two prefer your DHs option

Prefer Ruaridh but Archie goes better with Oliver

Ruadhri is much nicer than Archie.

Ruairi was our boys name if #2 was a boy.

I love it, DH is dyslexic and couldn't quite grasp the "dh" spelling so we opted to drop them - not keen on the Y spelling.

Also note that although we live in Scotland where is popular, lots of people seemed to pronounce it Rory (Roar-y) to start with but once you've introduced him and corrected it is not an issue.

I'm not keen on Archie - it's a very "meh" name to me.

Ruaridh 100% (roo-ah-ray). Plus Roo is a really cute nickname. Archie is twee and sounds to me like a children's tv character.

I'm embarrassed to say I'd never come across Ruaridh before. I'd only ever seen Rory, which my partner liked but I didn't, but this name seems nicer. I tried to look up the pronunciation just to be sure on youtube but weirdly the videos seem to be by non-native speakers and they're trying to sound out all the letters LOL.

It'll cause the kid more issues with explaining how to say it but I still would go for it over Archie.

Ruaridh.

Unless you call him Archibald which is fab name.

Ruaridh!

Ruaridh.
It's lovely. I'm not Scottish but I know how to say it!

Ruaridh.

Not a fan of Archie.

I'm biased towards a family Archie, but I like Ruaridh too.

With regards the spelling yes he'll have to spell it out but I have quite a common easy to spell name and am asked to spell it out all the time so I think anyone would have to pick a very simple name to avoid it completely.

When it comes to Starbucks / restaurants / anything else of no consequence he'll be free to tell them he's called Dave or Tim if it bothers him

If you’re Scottish please don’t spell it Ruary

Another vote for Ruaridh!
Oli and Rhu is cute.

Archie for sure