Archibald (name)

For other uses, see Archibald.

Archibald

Origin
Meaning	Derives from the Old High German Erkanbald, composed of erkan , "precious" and bald , "strong".
Other names
Variant forms	Arcimboldi Archambeault Archambault Erkanbald

Archibald is a family name and given name, deriving from the Old High German Erkanbald, composed of erkan , "precious", and bald , "strong". ^{[1] [2]} The name varies in Old French as Archambeault and Archambault, and in Italian as Arcimboldi. ^{[3] [4]}

People with the surname

• David Archibald (politician) (1717–1795), Canadian politician
  • Samuel Archibald (politician, born 1742) (1742–1780), Canadian politician
    • Samuel George William Archibald (1777–1846), Canadian politician
      • Charles Dickson Archibald (1802–1868), Canadian politician
      • Sir Edward Mortimer Archibald (1810–1884), Canadian politician
        • Edith Archibald (1854–1936), Canadian suffragist and union leader
• Matthew Archibald (1745–1820), Canadian politician
  • Alexander Lackie Archibald (1788–1859), Canadian politician
• Thomas Dickson Archibald (1813–1890), Canadian politician
• Adams George Archibald (1814–1892), Canadian politician
• Cyril Archibald (1837–1914), Canadian politician
• Donald Archibald (1840–1908), Canadian politician
• Raymond Clare Archibald (1875–1955), Canadian-American mathematician and historian of mathematics
• Edgar Archibald (1885–1968), Canadian agricultural scientist
• George W. Archibald (b. 1946), Canadian-American ornithologist
• Edward Archibald (athlete) (1884–1965), Canadian pole vaulter
• Frank C. Archibald (Newfoundland politician) (1887–1972), Canadian politician
• Harry Archibald (1910–1965), Canadian politician
• Nancy Archibald (1911–1996), Canadian fencer
• Jane Archibald, Canadian operatic soprano
• Joan Archibald (1913–2002), Canadian fencer
• Josh Archibald (b. 1992), Canadian ice hockey player
• Jim Archibald (b. 1961), Canadian ice hockey player
• Dave Archibald (b. 1969), Canadian hockey player
• Ben Archibald (b. 1978), American NFL player
• George D. Archibald (1820–?), American theologian
• James Archibald (1912–2006), American judge
• Joey Archibald (1914–1998), American boxer
• Lynn Archibald (1944–1997), American college basketball coach
• Nate Archibald (b. 1948), American basketball player
• Nolan D. Archibald (b.1943), American businessman
• Robin Tenney Archibald (born 1958), American tennis player
• Frank Archibald (died 1975), Aboriginal Australian elder in whose honour the Frank Archibald Memorial Lecture Series was named
• Jules François Archibald (1856–1919), Australian journalist and publisher
• William Archibald (politician) (1850–1926), South Australian politician
• Anna Archibald (b. 1959), New Zealander Olympian skier
• Jeff Archibald (b. 1952), New Zealander field hockey player
• Adam Archibald (1879–1957), Scottish Victoria Cross recipient
• Adrian Archibald (b. 1969), Irish motorcycle racer
• Alan Archibald (b. 1977), Irish footballer
• Bobby Archibald (1894–1966), Scottish footballer
• George Archibald, 1st Baron Archibald (1898–1975), British politician
• George Christopher Archibald (1926–1996), British economist
• Jimmy Archibald (1892–1975), Scottish association footballer
• Joseph Archibald (died 2014), British Virgin Islands Attorney General and judge
• Liliana Leah Archibald (1928–2014), English insurance broker
• Marion Archibald (1936–2016), Scottish numismatist
• Nicholas Archibald (b. 1975), Scottish cricketer
• Phyllis Archibald (1880–1947), English sculptor
• Robert Archibald (1980–2020), Scottish basketball player
• Sandy Archibald (1897–1946), Scottish association footballer
• Steve Archibald (b. 1956), Scottish association footballer and manager

Fictional characters with the surname

• Nate Archibald (Gossip Girl), a main character on the TV series Gossip Girl
• Kayneth El-Melloi Archibald, a character in Fate/Zero

People with given name

Medieval

• Archibald I, Lord of Douglas (ca. 1198–1238), Scottish nobleman
• Archibald (bishop of Moray) (died 1298), Scottish prelate
• Archibald Douglas, 3rd Earl of Douglas (1325–1400), Lord of Galloway
• Archibald Douglas (died 1333), Guardian of Scotland
• Archibald Douglas, 4th Earl of Douglas (1370–1424), also Duke of Touraine
• Archibald Douglas, 5th Earl of Douglas (1390–1439), Scottish nobleman and general
• Archibald Douglas, Earl of Moray (1426–1455), Scottish nobleman
• Archibald Douglas, 5th Earl of Angus (1453–1514), Scottish politician and magnate

Early modern

See Archibald Campbell (disambiguation), Archibald Douglas (disambiguation), Archibald Hamilton (disambiguation), Archibald Montgomerie (disambiguation), Archibald Napier (disambiguation), and Archibald Primrose (disambiguation) for lists of individuals with these names.

• Archibald Douglas of Kilspindie (1475–1536), Scottish nobleman and Treasurer of Scotland
• Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus (1490–1557), Scottish nobleman
• Archibald Campbell, 2nd Earl of Argyll (died 1513), Lord Chancellor of Scotland
• Archibald Campbell, 4th Earl of Argyll (c. 1507–1558), Scottish nobleman and politician
• Archibald Campbell, 5th Earl of Argyll (1532/7–1573), Scottish politician
• Sir Archibald Napier (1534–1608), Scottish master of the Scottish mint and Laird of Merchiston
• Archibald Douglas, 8th Earl of Angus (1556–1588) (also 5th Earl of Morton)
• Archibald Campbell, 7th Earl of Argyll (c. 1575–1638), Scottish politician and military leader
• Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll (1607–1661), Scottish nobleman
• Archibald Douglas, 1st Earl of Ormond (1609–1655), Scottish nobleman
• Archibald Primrose, Lord Carrington (1616–1679), Scottish lawyer, judge, and cavalier
• Lord Archibald Hamilton (1673–1754), Scottish politician
• Archibald Cameron of Lochiel (1707–1753), Scottish leader in the Jacobite uprising
• Archibald Montgomerie, 11th Earl of Eglinton (1726–1796), Scottish general and politician
• Archibald Douglas-Hamilton, 9th Duke of Hamilton (1740–1819), Scottish peer and politician
  • Lord Archibald Hamilton (1769–1827), Scottish politician
• Archibald McBryde (1766–1816), Scottish-born American politician
• Archibald Murphey (1777–1832), North Carolina politician

Modern

• Sir Archibald Dickson, 1st Baronet (died 1803), British naval officer
• Archibald Hamilton (1790–1815), American naval officer
• Archibald McLean (judge) (1791–1865), Canadian judge
• Archibald W. O. Totten (1809–1867), American judge
• John Archibald Campbell (1811–1889), American lawyer
• Archibald McLelan (1824–1890), Canadian shipbuilder and politician
• Archibald Loudon Snowden (1835–1912), American diplomat
• Sir Archibald Geikie (1835–1924), Scottish geologist
• Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery (1847–1929), British politician and Prime Minister of the UK
• Archibald Grimké (1849–1930), American journalist and diplomat
• Archibald Gracie IV (1859–1912), American writer and RMS Titanic sinking survivor
• Archibald Keightley (1859–1930), English physician and theosophist
• Archibald Lampman (1861–1899), Canadian poet
• Archibald Butt (1865–1912), American journalist, army officer, presidential adviser and RMS Titanic sinking casualty
• Archibald Ritchie (British Army officer) (1869–1955), British general
• Archibald Boyd-Carpenter (1873–1937), British politician
• Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell (1883–1950), British commander
• Archibald Hill (1886–1977), British physiologist
• Archibald Cecil Chappelow (1886–1976), British fine art consultant
• Archibald Motley (1891–1981), American visual artist
• Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982), American modernist writer
• Archibald Roosevelt (1894–1979), American soldier
• Archibald F. Bennett (1896–1965) LDS genealogist
• Archibald Joseph Cronin (1896–1981), Scottish author
• Archibald Alexander Leach (1904–1986, stage name Cary Grant), American actor
• John Archibald Wheeler (1911–2008), American theoretical physicist
• Archibald Cox (1912–2004), American lawyer, politician and US Solicitor General
• Archibald David Stirling (1915–1990), British army officer
• Archibald Hall (1924–2002), Scottish serial killer
• Archibald Wickeramaraja Singham (1932–1991), Sri Lankan Tamil political scientist and historian
• Archibald Boyce Monwabisi Mafeje (1936–2007), commonly known as Archie Mafeje, was a South African anthropologist and activist
• Archibald Gemmill (b. 1947), Scottish Football Player (Hero of Mendoza, Argentina 1978)
• Archie Manning (b. 1949), former National Football League player
• Archie Thompson (b. 1978), Australian footballer
• Archie Mountbatten-Windsor (b. 2019), British royal

People with the mononym or pseudonym

• Archibald (musician), stage name of Leon Gross (1916–1973), American R&B musician
• Archibald Peck, 2011 ring name of Robert Evans (wrestler) (b. 1983)
• Archibald, a pseudonym of Waldemar Łysiak
• Archibald Joyce, pseudonym of Arthur Joyce (1873–1963), British light music composer

Fictional characters with the given name

• Archie Andrews (comics), the namesake character from Archie Comics
• Archibald Asparagus, a character from the Christian video series, VeggieTales
• Archie Bunker, a character in the sitcom All in the Family
• Archibald Craven, uncle and adoptive father of the protagonist, Mary Lennox, in The Secret Garden
• Archie Goodwin, a character in Rex Stout's mysteries
• Archibald Grosvenor, a character in the Gilbert and Sullivan opera Patience
• Captain Haddock, a character in The Adventures of Tintin
• Archibald the Koala , animated children's television series
• Archibald le Magi-chien , animated children's television series
• Archibald "Archie" Mitchell, a character from the television soap opera EastEnders
• Arcimboldo, a DC Comics character
• Archie, a character played by Mark Strong in the film RocknRolla
• Archie Wong, a character in Waterloo Road
• Archibald Archibaldovich, pirate and maitre d'hotel Griboyedev, a character in The Master and Margarita
• Archibald Witwicky, a character from Transformers
• Archibald MacGregor, a supporting character in Red Dead Redemption II
• Archibald Yronwood, a minor character in A Song of Ice and Fire

See also

• Arcimboldi
• Archambeault
• Archambault
• Erkanbald
• All pages with titles beginning with Archibald

References

1. Hanks, Patrick (2022). Dictionary of American Family Names (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. s. v. Archibald.
2. "Archibald". etymonline.com. Etymonline. Retrieved 13 October 2025.
3. "Arcimboldo, Giovanni". cardinals.fiu.edu. Retrieved 13 October 2025.
4. "Archdiocese of Milano (Milan)". catholic-hierarchy.org. Catholic Hierarchy. Retrieved 13 October 2025.