Archer
292
Babies in 2024
+152%
10-year change
2021
Peak · 308
-1%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Archer
Archer is a rising UK boy's name. Registrations in 2024 (292) are up 152% on a decade earlier — one of the steeper climbs in the ONS data for England & Wales.
Archer reached its peak in 2021, when 308 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #174 for UK boys that year. Today's count is broadly in line with the peak.
Across 26 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 3,147 boys have been officially registered with the name Archer in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 2,722 boys were registered with the name, starting from 116 in 2014 and ending at 292 in 2024.