diff --git a/spacy/_ml.py b/spacy/_ml.py
index d4f0e8bef..2d366af74 100644
--- a/spacy/_ml.py
+++ b/spacy/_ml.py
@@ -243,8 +243,9 @@ class PrecomputableAffine(Model):
 def link_vectors_to_models(vocab):
     vectors = vocab.vectors
     if vectors.name is None:
-        raise ValueError(
-            "Unnamed vectors -- this won't allow multiple vectors "
+        vectors.name = VECTORS_KEY
+        print(
+            "Warning: Unnamed vectors -- this won't allow multiple vectors "
             "models to be loaded. (Shape: (%d, %d))" % vectors.data.shape)
     ops = Model.ops
     for word in vocab: