Archer

What Archer means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Archer yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #289 in 2015, #98 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Archer?

US: Rising: up from #289 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #337 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 3,627 boys got the name (#98 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 471 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 768 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 935 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in VT (8.25 per 1,000 boys), MT (7.17 per 1,000 boys), ND (7.15 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Archer is #98 in the US and #152 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.3% of US babies named Archer were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

If you like Archer

Boys

• Fletcher#545“arrow-maker”^*
• Emerson#254Editor’s note Up from #300 in 2015 to #254 in 2025 in the US
• Tatum#202Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #585 in 2015, #202 in 2025
• Hudson#17Editor’s note Up from #65 in 2015 to #17 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 200 US boys in the 2025 records
• Nolan#65“descendant of Nuallán”^*
• Laith#893Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #254 vs #893 in 2025

For a sister

• Emery#74Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #74 vs #1,197 in 2025
• Kinsley#93“Royal (a man's name) + s + woodland clearing”^*
• Evelyn#8Same root as Eileen, possibly meaning “radiance, beauty”^*
• Harper#16From a surname for “a player of the harp”^*
• Quinn#97“descendant of Chief”^*
• Hadley#121“heath + woodland clearing”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under From a surname, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Archer’s. Rank is US 2025.