A MUM has told how she had a hellish time after deciding to name her son Lucifer.
Naomi Baker, 25, says relatives and even midwives tried to talk her out of giving the lad the moniker of the Devil.
Lucifer with his mum Naomi Baker and sister Kallie[/caption]
But she says her Lucifer is no demon and goes to church every week.
Naomi, from Fochabers, Moray, said: “I liked the story of how God created Lucifer to be the most beautiful of his creations. My son is beautiful so the name fits.
“I didn’t spend that long thinking about it because it seemed perfect.
“Everyone tried talking me out of it, but I’m kind of stubborn and if I like something then I’m going to go for it.”
She added: “Some relatives pleaded with me not to use the name. When he was just born, the midwives said I shouldn’t use it. They said I couldn’t give a beautiful baby that name.
“I did begin to wonder if it was maybe a bit too unusual.”
The mum-of-two also has an eight-year-old daughter, Kallie, whose name is derived from the Greek word “kallos”, meaning beautiful.
Little Lucifer, one, goes to a church group every Friday.
Naomi said: “I think there was a lady who didn’t want to say his name, so she called him Lucy. All the rest of them are fine to call him Lucifer.
“No one has ever said anything to me about it.”
She told how Kallie loves Jesus, so it has become a family joke that her brother is named after Satan.
But Naomi has no concerns about how Lucifer will be received when he’s old enough to go to school.
She said: “People have talked about bullying. But I think kids get bullied either way. It doesn’t matter what they are called or what they look like.
“I have no regrets. I love how it’s really unique. No one else around here is going to be called Lucifer.
“As he gets older I’ll explain what his name means. I’m hoping that he’ll love it.”
Naomi is already planning to dress her lad up as the devil for Halloween.
She said: “He more than lives up to his name.
“I thought it would be a lot more cute when he was walking to be the devil.”
Records show five other kids have been registered as Lucifer in Scotland since 2013.
In 2019 a couple from Edinburgh defended giving their son the name. The lad’s dad, Damien, said: “It would have been even better if he was born on Halloween.” In January we told how Jess Bell and Stefan Wake, from Redcar, Yorks, tried to explain they got took their son’s name from the Netflix fantasy, Lucifer, starring Tom Ellis.
