A mum has been slammed for naming her son Lucifer.
Josie King was relentlessly trolled after calling into the Jeremy Vine show to share her opinions on baby names.
The 27-year-old, from Plymouth, said she was not inspired by the devil when she named her little boy.
She says her seven-month-old son’s name just popped into her head one day and she liked how unusual it was.
The mum-of-two told Devon Live: “There wasn’t any inspiration for the name. I’ve looked at many baby books and I like unusual names. I don’t like having the standard names.
“I assumed I was having a girl so I picked a girl’s name because we are a very female dominated family – I was going to call her Narnia but then I found out I was having a boy.”
Josie, who also has a six-year-old daughter called Talayla-May Barbara Elaine Kayleigh Kelsey Jade King, continued: “I like the names I like, it may not be right for other people.
“When I chose his name I knew people wouldn’t like it but it’s not up to them.
“I had a couple of family members saying ‘you can’t call him that’, but I said I’m not religious so it doesn’t stand for what other people think it stands for.
“But my dad knows what I’m like and that I like to be unique so he said that seems like you.”
Josie says she has received a lot of hateful comments since appearing on TV
She said: “I’ve had a lot of hate since being on Jeremy Vine but it still doesn’t change my opinion, I don’t regret choosing that name.
“I’ve had messages all day. I didn’t realise that one impulse phone call to Channel 5 would end up in me having so many.
“I do think people have a right to have an opinion – it’s mostly the older generation that don’t like it.
“I like the name because I like it, I don’t think it stands for the devil, in my eyes.
“If the devil was called something else, you wouldn’t like that name either.
“It’s about people’s mindset with the name.