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[deadsister.livejournal.com]

Hi everyone! I am yet another person who was thrilled to see this community in the spotlight. I have always loved names. I am pretty picky, right down to naming pets. My name is Amy which I love because it's not super common but it's not "weird" either. My mom read the name in a book when she was a teenager and loved it.I was almost Amy Rae but my dad talked her into Amy Lee. Which I am happy about. I am of Swedish heritage and love Swedish and Scandanavian names. I also love the tradition of mothers using their maiden names for their first daugher's middle name. For example my Aunt's name is Jann Bergstrom Ball as her mother's maiden name was Bergstrom.
I do not have any children but I think about names a lot. Most recently Archer for a boy. You may recognize it as the last name of Sterling Archer from the TV show. You may not. If you do, I don't care to hear about your opinion of the show. What I do care to hear is your opinions on nicknames. Most of my family is not into nicknames. My cousin Rebecca is NEVER Becky, for example. Unfortunately my uncle, her father, and his side of their family is really into nicknames. She has a baby, Abram James, who he is already calling AJ. No one is happy about this. I love the name Archer but I have a sinking feeling my uncle, and others, would end up calling him Archie. I do not like this. I suppose my question is, do you feel this would be common? As in teachers, coaches and classmates calling someone named Archer Archie? Or do you think the days of men called Archie are kind of bygone and I'm overthinking?

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[schexyschteve.livejournal.com]

If you don't want your child to be called by a nickname, you can say, "His name is Archer, no Archie." My husband is Anthony, and he never goes by Tony. You just correct them when the kid is little, and then he'll correct them himself when he's old enough.

[liltxangel83.livejournal.com]

The only Archie I know of is a character (and actually the actor as well) on CSI.

I love the name Archer as well, though I don't know if hubby agrees so I doubt we'd ever have a son named Archer... content myself with naming my Sims lol

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[thelasttruth.livejournal.com]

Archer and Archie both have two syllables, so I doubt a whole lot of people would change the name. Usually nicknames are shorter than the original name. I personally love the name Archer and as others have said, if you correct people from the time the boy is born, people should get the hint.

[deadsister.livejournal.com]

Fair enough

[hermione-vader.livejournal.com]

My aunt named her fourth child Andrew James and said from the outset, "Do not call him A.J.," so we never did. He's just Andrew, and no nicknames have stuck.

On the other hand, my name is Mary Grace, and people have called me M.G. all my life, including my parents, siblings, relatives, teachers, and friends. It's not all I've ever gone by, like how some people are only A.J., D.J., B.J., K.C., etc., but I like it.

Like someone said above, if you say from the outset that you don't want people calling him Archie and only address him as Archer, then he will correct people when he's older if they try to call him "Archie" and he doesn't like. If, later on, he decided he does like it, then it's probably out of your hands (like when he's a teenager).

[deadsister.livejournal.com]

Haha. I have a friend named Mary Grace and everyone calls her MG. :) Thanks for your input.

[http://users.livejournal.com/___heyvanity/]

1. I love the name Archer (but I also love Sterling)

2. I would assume Archie would be a nn but you can always just call him Archer around people and they may not shorten it. I think Archie is an adorable nn for Archer, though.

[snoglobel.livejournal.com]

My brother is Andrew, never Andy. If someone calls him Andy, or any other nickname he politely corrects them. It hasn't been much of a problem aside from some first meetings.

[linwenolatari.livejournal.com]

My mom hates middle names because she says nobody uses them, but I think it's all about the way you educate people.
If your kid is named Alice-Yvette, and you want the people to call her "Alice Yvette" not just Alice, or Yvette, then I think it starts at home.
If parents start calling their kids one name or the other, kids don't get used to calling themselves by both names and they will probably introduce themselves with whatever name they are familiar with.
For example, I have a cousin whose name is Jose-Felipe and that's what everyone calls him.
I know someone else whose name is Enrique, but nobody calls him that, to the point that I think he might even forget that's his actual name.

So I think that if you like Archer, you're just gonna have to fight for people to call him that until they get used to it.

[deadsister.livejournal.com]

Oh that's interesting. My whole family calls me by my first and middle name together almost always. I actually started writing it "Amili" when I was a teenager haha. I gave it up as an adult though.

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[spadoinkel.livejournal.com]

Amy, or Aimee, is very common in australia.. I know about 10 of them!

[ghostpassenger.livejournal.com]

When I think of Archer I don't think of Archer Sterling I think of Newland Archer from the Age of Innocence.

Anyway as far as Archie/Archer goes. I think if I knew someone named Archer my first inclination when I felt comfortable with them would be to call them Arch. But not Archie. If you don't want someone to call you something though just tell them what you'd like to be called or in your case, what you want your son to be called. Eventually they'll get it.

[deadsister.livejournal.com]

I'm not opposed to Arch, now that you say that. My friend has a dog named Archibald, who he calls Archie and who I call Arch.
Same with Anthony. I have a friend named Anthony who everyone calls Anth, not Tony.
Come to think of it that may be the reason I don't like the name Archie for a boy, because it's my friend's dog's name. Haha.
Thanks for your input.