Archibald

From Old French Archaunbault, from Old High German Erchanbald, from Proto-Germanic *Erknabalþaz, a construction of *erknaz (“pure, holy, genuine, precious”) +‎ *balþaz (“strong, bold”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑː(ɹ).tʃɪ.bɔːld/, /ˈɑː(ɹ).tʃɪ.bəld/

Archibald

1. A male given name.
2. A patronymic surname​.

• Used as an anglicization of Scottish Gaelic Gille Easbuig (literally “servant of the bishop”), which is also often anglicized as Gillespie.

• c. 1597, William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act 1, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:

  , Scene 1 :

  On Holy-rood day, the gallant Hotspur there

  Young Harry Percy, and brave Archibald,

  That ever-valiant and approved Scot,

  At Holmedon met.

• Archie