Stuck for baby boy names, our favourite just got vito’d by my mother!

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We are due our first baby - a baby boy in mid November but we are really struggling with names.
The middle name is going to be George after my dad.

Our top name was Archer, but when I told my mum, she quite angrily said it wasn’t a real name and I should be using Archie, as Archer sounds stupid. So it has put a spanner in the works and now we regret telling her our front runner.

The rest of our list includes:
Wilf
Charlie
Otis
Hugo
Seb (Sebastian)
Tobie (Toby)

We don’t want anything too out there but also don’t want anything too common. Any suggestions would be hugely appreciated.
Middle name George.
Surname starts with a W if that helps.

Thank you :)

Orlando, Tobias?

Your Mum sounds horrible! Go with Archer it's your favorite.

I know a lovely bright boy called Otis.

Call your baby whatever you want to call him! We have a William George.

That would motivate me all the more to go with the name! Why does she think she has a say

We have a really similar taste - love your names! I have a Zachary... his name always gets compliments. We also had Hugo, Jude and Archer on our list. Go for what you love!

Archer is certainly "a real name". Archie, arguably, is a diminutive - she'd sound a little less unreasonable if she were arguing it the other way around - e.g., use Archer, not Archie. But yeah: not her baby, not her veto. Regardless of what you decide - Archer or something else - stop talking to her about the subject.

How about Asher?

Go with Archer - you and your husband's choice, she has no say in the matter let alone power of veto.... tell her you were informing her of tge chosen name, not asking for her opinion......

I’ve never heard Archer as a name. How about Asher?

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I vote Archer, I do really love your name list! Although if she hates archer that Explosively she isn't going to like any of those names. She'll hate otis, despise the spelling of tobie, think that wilf, seb and Charlie and just nicknames etc. So just go with what you love anyway :)

Go with your choice, not your mothers! Nothing to do with her. Archer is a great name actually - different, but not too out there. Also like Otis, Hugo and Toby.

Your mum probably remembers Jeffrey Archer. Enough to put anyone off.

Archer is a gorgeous name. We had the same issue with my mother (I almost named my son something different to what we wanted to call him), but I'm so glad we didn't and stuck to our guns. Now, my parents couldn't see him as anything else

I like Wilf and Charlie, Toby spelt with a Y not an ie otherwise he will be forever getting his name spelt wrong.
I like Archer (and Archie)
Choose a name you and DP love.

Agree with your mum. I don’t like Archer either. Terrible name. She’s done you a favour! Not keen on any of your name choice tbh but your baby, go with what you like!

Alex, Travis, Calvin, Kelvin, Theo...I like Archer, but u do realise his pals will shorten it to Archie....

I never told my mum the names on our shortlist, instead I told her we were going to call the baby Wolfgang, even if was a girl, just to wind her up.

Our grandson was named after his grandfather, but my son, Billy Burdock, formally Wolfgang, now wishes he called him Thomas Mortimer. So we call him Thomas Mortimer when he's naughty, which is quite often.

My son's first names are Harvey James 💙

Call him Archer.

Your choice, Archer definitely is a real name while Archie is actually not….so if that’s the one you love go for it (and he could be Archie as a nn anyway).
My favourite from your list is Sebastian though

Of course Archie's a real name. Thousands of boys are called it.

Archer makes me think of Peach Schnapps 🍑🍸

Hugo, Otis or Toby. There you go OP. You’ve been told! 😆 I’d prefer Michael or Steven for a baby. The above names would be contenders to name a puppy 🥴

Seriously, just choose a name you like. Nobody gets to choose your baby’s name except his/parents.

I love the name Archer. As pp said, your name, your choice!
My son is called Archie George, it is a great name.
Just to add, my mum wasn’t keen on Archie but she got used to it. He’s 21 now!