LOS ANGELES: Archie, the red-headed comic book character? Or Archie Bunker, American television’s bad-tempered bigot from the 1970s?
The choice of Archie as the name for Britain’s newest royal baby sent social media into a tailspin on May 8 and confused Americans who associate the name with two of the nation’s biggest pop culture figures, and their pets.
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