The family of a young boy from Afghanistan says their lives have been ruined after his superfan parents named him Donald Trump.

Born in September 2016 as his namesake was running for president, the 18-month-old was named by his father because of his admiration for the tycoon.

This Donald Trump is the third child of Jamila and Sayed Assadullah from the Shahristan District in central Afghanistan.

Sayed comes from a poor farming family but earned a college degree, read Trump’s books and watched him on television.

He told The New York Times that he hoped that naming his son after the famous real estate developer and television star would “rub off” on the child’s fortunes.

But the naming has had the opposite effect and has only added to the family’s misfortunes.

Sayed says the decision to give the child a non-Muslim name angered his relatives so much that the family no longer felt welcome in their village in Daikundi, and so they moved to a rental home in Kabul.

He added: “When I named my son Donald Trump, they were not happy.”

“They told me, ‘How you can select the name of an infidel for your son?’”

The naming of the young Donald Trump had been private even after they moved to Kabul, but a copy of the child’s national ID circulated on social media recently and Sayed believes it was distributed by employees of the population registration department without his permission.