Latest WTF trend?paying people to name your baby
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Wine With Everything. Cherries in the Snow. Back to the Fuchsia. If you ask me, naming lipstick (or nail polish, or My Little Ponies, for that matter) would be a dream job. But being paid to name humans certainly never occurred to me as a career option.
According to a recent recent Bloomberg report, parents-to-be in the U.S. and Europe are paying experts to name their future kids. Yes, you read that correctly. In Switzerland, one agency’s fee will run you close to $30,000 per name. In the U.S., you might find yourself paying only several hundred dollars. What a deal! But you’d better save your pennies if you?re considering a double name or want a professional to pick out the middle name, too.
These firms, which seem to be made up of former marketing people, research names to assure parents that their children?s names don?t come along with bad associations from history or mythology; that these names are unique and have positive meanings (some people think that can lead to your kid’s future success). The report they provide is usually about 30 pages long. So in between doctor’s appointments, setting up the nursery and napping, you can read this very long and detailed document. With the rise of the Internet and popular sites such as Nameberry, I?m not surprised to see old-fashioned baby-naming books being replaced by online databases. But given that the Internet makes it so easy to research on one’s own, the idea that one could open ...
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