Archer or Asher?

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Which do you prefer and why?

Imagine Archer being nicknamed Arch ..?!

Asher because it's an actual name. Agree with a pp that they're completely different types of names.

Neither. X

They’re both actual names, obviously. Honestly.

I like both, but Asher probably slightly more - I do think he’ll get Ash though, so depends if you warm to that

Worth noting that there has been an MP, a 19thC portrait artist and an actual Nobel prize winner all called Archer - definitely an actual name

Neither. Both awful.

Asher if I had to chose either. Really dislike Archer.

Asher if I had to choose.

Archer is not nice. Even Archibald is better

Asher is biblical, archer is someone who uses a bow and arrow, I'm not keen on those sorts of names very American

Archer is definitely a name - was my grandads name, and he wasn’t American either.

Honestly, having read so many name threads on here- go with what YOU like. Both are perfectly normal and nice names.
its a real badge of honour on here to declare anything that’s not John or David as “awful” or “made up” - gets really boring!
I do wonder if some of the posters have actually spent any time in a school or around kids recently, because names now are so varied and culturally diverse that literally nobody would bat an eyelid at Archer (which is an old English name anyway)