{"id":85402,"date":"2022-10-03T07:37:07","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T07:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/aj-mclean-says-it-was-his-daughters-choice-to-change-her-name-to-elliott\/"},"modified":"2022-10-03T07:37:07","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T07:37:07","slug":"aj-mclean-says-it-was-his-daughters-choice-to-change-her-name-to-elliott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/aj-mclean-says-it-was-his-daughters-choice-to-change-her-name-to-elliott\/","title":{"rendered":"AJ McLean Says It Was His Daughter&#8217;s Choice to Change Her Name to Elliott"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<ul class=\"summary-list\">\n<li>Backstreet Boys singer AJ McLean discussed his daughter&#8217;s decision to change her name from Ava to Elliott.<\/li>\n<li>McLean told People that it was not &#8220;a transgender thing&#8221; but a &#8220;personal choice&#8221; by his daughter.<\/li>\n<li>McLean said that Elliott felt that her old name, Ava, was &#8220;not that unique and not that original.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"inline-newsletter-signup &#10;                        headline-regular loading\" id=\"formContainer\" data-component-type=\"inline-newsletter-module\" data-event-label=\"morning_brew\" data-list=\"Morning Brew\" data-acq-source=\"morningbrew\" data-origin=\"MorningBrew\" data-campaign=\"entertainment\">\n<section class=\"inline-newsletter-content\">\n<div class=\"js-loader hidden\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"svg-icon \" version=\"1.1\" role=\"img\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" viewbox=\"0 0 50 50\" style=\"enable-background:new 0 0 50 50;\" xml:space=\"preserve\">\n                        <title>loading<\/title>\n                        <desc>Something is loading.<\/desc>\n                        <path fill=\"#111\" d=\"M43.935,25.145c0-10.318-8.364-18.683-18.683-18.683c-10.318,0-18.683,8.365-18.683,18.683h4.068c0-8.071,6.543-14.615,14.615-14.615c8.072,0,14.615,6.543,14.615,14.615H43.935z\">\n                          <animatetransform attributetype=\"xml\" attributename=\"transform\" type=\"rotate\" from=\"0 25 25\" to=\"360 25 25\" dur=\"0.6s\" repeatcount=\"indefinite\"\/>\n                        <\/path>\n                      <\/svg><\/div>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<p>The Backstreet Boys singer AJ McLean opened up about his 9-year-old daughter&#8217;s decision to change her name from Ava to Elliott. <\/p>\n<p>McLean told People that he will &#8220;support&#8221; his daughter&#8217;s name change regardless of the reason. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When my daughter asked to change her name to Elliott, initially, I didn&#8217;t know if it was a transgender thing, which it is not, but it is a personal choice,&#8221; McLean said.  &#8220;It is her body, it&#8217;s her name, it&#8217;s everything.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Elliott&#8217;s name change was first announced by her mom in a back-to-school post on Instagram last month. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She&#8217;s still Ava. She&#8217;ll always be Ava to me,&#8221; McLean told People.  &#8220;But at the same time, whatever reasoning it is, she that&#8217;s hers, and I&#8217;m going to support it a million percent, my wife will (too).&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>McLean added that Elliott first picked her new name over a year ago, according to People. <\/p>\n<p>He recalled his daughter saying: &#8220;Dad, I just feel like my name is not that unique and not that original, and there&#8217;s a lot of Avas at dance and a lot of Avas at school.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On her Instagram Story, McLean&#8217;s wife Rochelle addressed the questions about Elliott&#8217;s name change, People previously reported. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Not that it&#8217;s anyone&#8217;s business but Elliott&#8217;s name change is not a gender thing,&#8221; Rochelle wrote, noting that her daughter wanted to change her name for a long time and the name Elliott &#8220;stuck.&#8221; <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Backstreet Boys singer AJ McLean discussed his daughter&#8217;s decision to change her name from Ava to Elliott. McLean told People that it was not &#8220;a transgender thing&#8221; but a &#8220;personal choice&#8221; by his daughter. McLean said that Elliott felt that her old name, Ava, was &#8220;not that unique and not that original.&#8221; loading Something is &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/aj-mclean-says-it-was-his-daughters-choice-to-change-her-name-to-elliott\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AJ McLean Says It Was His Daughter&#8217;s Choice to Change Her Name to Elliott<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":85313,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/it-is-her-body-its-her-name\/","url_meta":{"origin":85402,"position":0},"title":"&#8216;It is her body, it&#8217;s her name&#8217;","date":"October 3, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Backstreet Boys singer AJ McLean discussed his daughter's decision to change her name from Ava to Elliott.McLean told People that it was not \"a transgender thing\" but a \"personal choice\" by his daughter.McLean said that Elliott felt that her old name, Ava, was \"not that unique and not that original.\"The\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Entertainment&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":56125,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/why-aj-mcleans-daughter-ava-changed-her-name-to-elliott\/","url_meta":{"origin":85402,"position":1},"title":"Why AJ McLean&#8217;s daughter Ava changed her name to Elliott","date":"August 25, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"AJ McLean's 9-year-old daughter has changed her name from Ava to Elliott, but the choice was \u201cnot a gender thing,\u201d according to the Backstreet Boys member's wife. 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