Archie
- Boy
- 6 letters
Archie is a boy’s name of English and Scottish origin. Meaning in English: A popular diminutive of Archibald, meaning true and bold, valuable. Meaning in Scottish: True and bold. Also ‘bald’. Introduced from England and Germany during the Norman conquest, the Scottish interpreted the ‘bald’ to refer to the shaven head of a monk. Archie is a short form of Archibald. Famous bearer: a ventriloquist’s dummy in the radio programme ‘Educating Archie’; a philisophical cockroach created by American writer Don Marquis. The name has 6 letters.
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