Influencer mum changes newborn son’s name, but insists she did so BEFORE people pointed out the ‘VJ’ blunder

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AN INFLUENCER has changed her newborn son’s name after realising that he’d be undoubtedly mocked over his original moniker.

Poppy and Jay Hollins recently welcomed a baby boy, and had announced in a YouTube video that they were going to be calling him Vinnie Jay.

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Poppy and Jay have revealed they’ve changed their newborn son’s nameCredit: YouTube / Poppy & Jay
They'd originally chosen to call him Vinnie Jay, but were bombarded by people pointing out the 'VJ' nickname

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They’d originally chosen to call him Vinnie Jay, but were bombarded by people pointing out the ‘VJ’ nicknameCredit: YouTube / Poppy & Jay

They had come up with the name after much debate, as Poppy had wanted to name him Vinnie, while Jay was keen to name his son after himself.

So they eventually settled on a double-barrelled name.

“Little VJ!” Jay laughed.

Poppy then giggled, and said: “I feel like he’ll be a rapper or something when he’s older.

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“VJ!”

But when the video was shared, people took issue with the moniker, with one writing: “Vay jay jay”.

“Literally the first thing that came to my mind,” another laughed.

“Instantly thought of this,” a third commented.

“That was my first thought,” someone else agreed.

So, in a new YouTube video, Poppy and Jay revealed they’d changed their mind – but not because of the comments people had been making.

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“We decided to change his name before we even saw that,” Jay said, referring to the backlash surrounding the VJ name.

“So we decided… cos Jay has never been that keen on Vinnie, and I’m not keen on Jay…” Poppy continued.

“I love Vinnie though, I really love the name Vinnie!”

“I don’t,” Jay piped up, as his other half continued: “But I just don’t know if he is Vinnie!”

But one person wrote in the comments on the YouTube video, writing: “Why can’t they just admit that’s why they changed the name?

“Just laugh about it and chill!”

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The UK has no law restricting names, but names that contain obscenities, numerals, misleading titles, or are impossible to pronounce are likely to be rejected when registering a child.

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Someone else urged the pair to “stop being so secretive” about the new name, while another said: “He looks like a Freddie or an Oscar!”

But someone else said that the couple seemed to have settled on a name during a recent live.

“They said on their live they wanted to name him either Cole or Jude,” they wrote.

“And decided on Jude Jay Porter by the end of the live, nickname JJ, but I’m not 100% sure if they kept the name.”

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