Archie
Archie is ranked 333rd among boys in 2024 (1,037 births). Its best rank was 79th, in 1890–1891.
- Rank in 2024
- #333up 14 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 1,0370.06% of boys
- Peak year
- 19181,110 births
- Best rank
- #79first in 1890
- Since 1880
- 56,395people given the name
The story in the numbers
55,109 boys have been named Archie in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 1,110 births — 0.11% of all boys recorded that year.
This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1937, and the 1920s alone account for 17%. It has spent 116 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 21 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 1,286 girls have also been given it, 2.3% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Archie | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 1,816 | |
| 1890s | 2,068 | |
| 1900s | 2,048 | |
| 1910s | 6,933 | |
| 1920s | 9,293 | |
| 1930s | 6,732 | |
| 1940s | 6,304 | |
| 1950s | 5,490 | |
| 1960s | 3,555 | |
| 1970s | 2,340 | |
| 1980s | 1,376 | |
| 1990s | 783 | |
| 2000s | 636 | |
| 2010s | 1,472 | |
| 2020s | 4,263 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Archie was the 138th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1918 were John, William, James, Robert and Charles. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Archie
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Lutherpeak 1922
- Claudepeak 1920
- Hardypeak 1921
- Monroepeak 1921
- Hendersonpeak 1918
- Rufuspeak 1922
- Percypeak 1921
- Dewittpeak 1921
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.