SIL having a boy - can't decide between Maximus or Archie.....comments please!!!!

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I said I would throw this out onto the forum......

ooooh Archie definatly

Archie

Archie is also the name of that weird castle guy in Balamory
I have a Max, pretty common in 3-4 yr olds names my Max is 13 and not many around his age, it has got more popular last few yrs..

Love maximus,
Archie is nice.

Maximus has much more gravity than Archie and still shortens well.
When (all together now) he is called to the Bar, knighted, graduates etc I think it's good to have the option of a non-abbreviated name.

Max, deffo not Maximus imho
Archie is the nicer of the two. Probably a bit less popular too, so wouldnt have about 6 in one class.
And not that Im biased but it is also the name of my dog

Instinct said Archie but it can't be shortened and we know a Max who is known as Maxie too, which is sweet... so I guess it depends if she wants to be able to shorten it or not.

ummmm....neither? Max is ok but not in the full form.

Max Max Max Max Max

Love Maximus

archie or max, not maximus.

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Archie is a diminutive, no.
Maximus - isn't that the name of the Russell Crowe character in gladiator? what about Maxwell or Maximilian or just Max?

Maxim, surely (shades of de Winter). Or even at a pinch Maximilian or however you spell it.
Maximus is too Gladiator for words.
Archie is nice-ish though.

Max definitely

oh, now Maxwell is pretty good...

I thought it was an either/or thread theough - no wandering off!

Archie reminds me of Balamory too!! She loves Maximus but thinks Max sounds like a dogs name!!! THe middle name is probably James.....

Or Maxicosi after the carseat?

I prefer Archie myself (so long as I scrub the image of that guy from Balamory out of my head!), but Max is cute too. Max is a very popular name at the school I work. We only have one Archie.

She is sitting next to me right now and hadn't thought of Maximillian....shes loving that as thought Maximus was a bit too Russell Crowe.....she still loves Archie though!

ds is a Maximus so I love it naturally - it's timeless, cool and unusual without being weird; we shorten it to Max most of the time.

Don't like Archie much - Archibald isn't exactly easy on the ears.

I like maxwell better too, or max. I don't liek the full version, I think it is terribly poncey.

Archie is nice, but I had a rabit called archie, and next door's little brat is called archie, so couldn't go there.

both are fine.

'tis ok, I can take it
have to admit I was thrilled when we registered ds's birth and were told they'd not had a Maximus in N. Yorks. for 6 years.
I think Maximillian is really poncey.

one man's poncey is another man's mainstream, as I thought when I met a Florian at the weekend...

I love Max. Maximus is what I call DT2. In the hospital I called him Maximum Aurelium and the mw thought it was his real name. PMSL!!!!! But he's Max... fullstop! I just call him Maximus

geekgrrl - have you met any other boys called Maximus???? How do people react to that.......