How rare is the name Archie?

16,983 people in the United States have the first name Archie, about 1 in 17,784. It ranks #1,771 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

ARCHIE

#1,771

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
16,983
About
1 in 17,784
This common or more
76.9%
Who bears it

Of the 16,983 people named Archie, 56.3% reported their origin as White, 31.4% as Black and 4.1% as Hispanic or Latino. 97.8% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Archie peaked in 1918, when 1,137 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802025
Peak year
1918
Births that year
1,137
In 2025*
1,134
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 57,535 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Archie by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1880s, when it ranked #220. The largest share of babies named Archie, 29.5%, were born between 1901 and 1927, the Greatest Generation's birth years.

1880s#2201,827
1890s#2742,116
1900s#3182,126
1910s#3367,129
1920s#3669,614
1930s#4316,978
1940s#5156,505
1950s#6805,598
1960s#9133,594
1970s#1,1842,351
1980s#1,8101,376
1990s#3,153783
2000s#4,561636
2010s#2,7191,477
2020s#7145,425
Before 19017.2%
Greatest Generation 1901–2729.5%
Silent Generation 1928–4521.7%
Baby boom 1946–6417.9%
Generation X 1965–807.1%
Millennials 1981–963.1%
Generation Z 1997–121.8%
2013 and later11.6%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Archie is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Archie has been most common in Mississippi (3.7×), Arkansas (2.8×), and South Carolina (2.8×), and least common in Connecticut (0.13×).

45,758 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Archie

#1,769 Itzel · 17,021#1,770 Kaylin · 17,014#1,772 Joselyn · 16,968#1,773 Deloris · 16,930

Spelled almost the same

One first name in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Archie, most common first.

#49,963 Arcie · 122

Also a last name

As a last name, Archie ranks #4,952 of 156,621, with 6,893 people. See Archie as a last name

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