Archer
Archer places #98 across the country in 2025, and more parents pick it every year. It has been on the books since 1880 and never mattered more than it does today; 31,391 bearers and counting.
Archer’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Archer, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Archer since 1880
Archer is at its all-time peak right now: #98 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Archer is most common
By share of a state's recorded boys' names, Archer runs strongest in Vermont at 0.83% in 2025, then Montana and North Dakota.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Archer
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Aaliyah
#101 in 2025
Amir
#105 in 2025
Audrey
#86 in 2025 · Teutonic
Adriel
#84 in 2025
Alaia
#117 in 2025
August
#81 in 2025 · Latin
Axel
#79 in 2025 · Teutonic
Ayla
#77 in 2025
Browse: names starting with A · all names
About Archer
How common is Archer today?
Archer places #98 across the country in 2025, and more parents pick it every year. Every point on the chart is the SSA's own count, back to 1880.
Does Archer have a meaning on record?
Honestly: our cited sources are silent on Archer, and we would rather show you nothing than something made up.
Which names sit near Archer?
On origin, era, syllables and first letter, Aaliyah sits closest, with Amir and Audrey just behind. Give the matcher the names already in the house and it scores the whole top thousand against them.
Get Archer’s free Name Kit
Five printables made in your browser: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Yours in a moment, for one email.
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A printed picture book where Archer earns every letter of their own name, page by page. See the preview pages and hear when it is ready.
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