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Stefan, 27, said: “We came up with the name as soon as we realised Jess was pregnant, so it didn’t influence our decision – although the 666 was a fairly strange coincidence.”
He and Jess, 25, who live in Redcar, North Yorkshire, came in for online trolling after Lucifer was included in a roundup of New Year babies born at James Cook Hospital in neighbouring Middlesbrough.
The hospital had to ask for the online abuse to be removed from Facebook and the couple admit some friends and family have been less than impressed.
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Jess said: “It has mostly been people from the older generation who have told us: ‘You can’t call him that, what will it be like when he’s at school?’
“But we are just normal loving parents and certainly have no interest in associating our son with the devil, that’s not what this is about.
“The name is lovely and it actually means “lighter bringer” which is exactly what he has done for our lives.
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“He’s the best-behaved baby you could ever wish for. After his bottle, he goes to sleep and you don’t hear a peep out of him, we haven’t had a single sleepless night, he’s an angel, not a little devil.
“I hope that people will get used to the name because we absolutely love it and couldn’t imagine him being called anything else now.
“We received quite a bit of abuse online from people saying awful things.
“Someone even criticised his middle name – which is Gary after my uncle who died as a child. Both names really mean something to us and it’s unfair for people to pass judgement on us.
“We’ve loving parents and Lucifer is the most adored little boy. His big sister Juliet is also absolutely besotted with him.”
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The couple first became interested in the name Lucifer due to their love of the 2021 TV fantasy series of the same name.
In the Netflix show Tom Ellies plays the devil, Lucifer Morningstar, who has become bored with hell and arrives in Los Angeles where he launches his own nightclub.
Whilst in LA Lucifer becomes a consultant with the LAPD and spends his time solving murders.
Stefan said: “We absolutely loved the show and when Jess became pregnant Lucifer became the name we decided on within a few weeks of discovering.
“The show made us look into the story of Lucifer and we found that the Bible says he was a loved angel who became disillusioned with God after visiting Earth and seeing all the suffering, wars, and disease.
“It made us even more certain that the name didn’t have really bad associations – it’s not as if we called him Satan.”
The couple, who met on Halloween three years ago in a hospital’s A and E department, say they hope they won’t have any opposition to baptise and registering their son.
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Stefan said: “There has been a case where a council refused to register a boy called Lucifer and we can only hope that doesn’t happen to us.
“I’ve already asked the opinion of a vicar at a local church because we do want to have him christened.
“We explained why we chose Lucifer and what the name means literally and she was delighted we’d thought so carefully about the name.
“She said she would have no problem in baptising him at her church.”
Jess said she and Stefan studied the rights and wrongs of baby names before making their choice.
She said: “In this country, there are no banned names, but the law does prevent you from using slang or obscene words.
“There’s no way we would do something like that. It had been suggested we call him Romeo because his big sister is Juliet – but I think that would have been so much worse than Lucifer.”