diff --git a/bson/__init__.py b/bson/__init__.py
index 088ed0e990..91bb094cce 100644
--- a/bson/__init__.py
+++ b/bson/__init__.py
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ def _get_string(data, position, obj_end, opts, dummy):
                          opts.unicode_decode_error_handler, True)[0], end + 1
 
 
-def _get_object(data, position, obj_end, opts, dummy):
+def _get_object(data, position, obj_end, opts, element_name):
     """Decode a BSON subdocument to opts.document_class or bson.dbref.DBRef."""
     obj_size = _UNPACK_INT(data[position:position + 4])[0]
     end = position + obj_size - 1
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ def _get_object(data, position, obj_end, opts, dummy):
     if end >= obj_end:
         raise InvalidBSON("invalid object length")
     if _raw_document_class(opts.document_class):
-        return (opts.document_class(data[position:end + 1], opts),
+        return (opts.document_class(data[position:end + 1], opts, element_name),
                 position + obj_size)
 
     obj = _elements_to_dict(data, position + 4, end, opts)
diff --git a/bson/_cbsonmodule.c b/bson/_cbsonmodule.c
index 31d1f49181..716ae6aed3 100644
--- a/bson/_cbsonmodule.c
+++ b/bson/_cbsonmodule.c
@@ -1769,8 +1769,8 @@ static PyObject* get_value(PyObject* self, PyObject* name, const char* buffer,
 
             if (options->is_raw_bson) {
                 value = PyObject_CallFunction(
-                    options->document_class, BYTES_FORMAT_STRING "O",
-                    buffer + *position, size, options->options_obj);
+                    options->document_class, BYTES_FORMAT_STRING "OO",
+                    buffer + *position, size, options->options_obj, name);
                 if (!value) {
                     goto invalid;
                 }
diff --git a/bson/codec_options.py b/bson/codec_options.py
index 7ef4151deb..ea47c5dc29 100644
--- a/bson/codec_options.py
+++ b/bson/codec_options.py
@@ -69,8 +69,8 @@ def __new__(cls, document_class=dict,
                 tz_aware=False, uuid_representation=PYTHON_LEGACY,
                 unicode_decode_error_handler="strict",
                 tzinfo=None):
-        if not (issubclass(document_class, MutableMapping) or
-                _raw_document_class(document_class)):
+        if not (_raw_document_class(document_class) or
+                issubclass(document_class, MutableMapping)):
             raise TypeError("document_class must be dict, bson.son.SON, "
                             "bson.raw_bson.RawBSONDocument, or a "
                             "sublass of collections.MutableMapping")