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Speaker 1 (00:10):
My Heart podcasts, hear More Kids podcasts, playlists and listen
live on the Free.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
I heard app and I.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Both expecting at the moment would trow and look up
through this. Around the other day, I said, what's what
we need for these names to name these new kids
of ours?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Is a professional baby namer.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Now, there was a story that came out this woman
based in San Francisco, or Taylor A. Humphrey, who is
charging forty five thousand dollars Australian allegedly.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
That's what reported.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
That's what's been reported, forty four one baby name. That
was the story, right, rattling, ratling, But also she must.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Be good as well. That's more.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
The more we discussed it, you know, it's almost like
having a priceless piece of art in your house. You know,
you've got a Jackson Pollock for a painting, you've got
a Humphrey for a baby exactly.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Taylor A. Humphrey joins us live right now from the US.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Welcome Taylor, thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Have we got the figure right? Taylor?
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Do you do you charge forty five thousand dollars a name?
Speaker 4 (01:08):
I'm going to have to go on to Google to
make sure that the exchange rate is correct. But yeah,
I do offer some VIP packages. They start in USD
ten thousand, they go up from there my Kardashian packages.
So this is a very different service. Like the majority
of my clients, they just need a little bit of
(01:28):
help honing in on that perfect name. They already have
a list, they're just trying to find like a happy medium.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
How do you decide that you're going to go into
a career where you name babies?
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Well, the truth is, you really don't. This career definitely
chose me. I always had an interest in baby names.
I was reading baby name books since the time I
could learn to read and write, and I started writing
about names on Instagram back in twenty fifteen. The more
that I would post about the numerology of the names,
(02:03):
the personality traits of certain names, the more parents started
writing to me and saying, well, what should I name
my baby? I had no idea that this is something
that parents really struggled with, So I decided to create
a process around helping them, you know, get that perfect
name and get it signed on the birth certificate.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
So what's the process? Tail?
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Generally, every package starts with an in depth questionnaire. I
want to get to know the families as well as
I can offer as much support I can at you know,
the various tiered prices. So for some families, it is
just starting with that initial questionnaire and then I'm just
giving a little bit of feedback, just helping them again
to narrow down their lists. Offering a little bit of
(02:50):
insight into popularity and spelling is a big one, like
should we go with a really popular spelling, do we
go with a less popular spelling elongated name? Do we
go with the nickname? So for that it's just helping
them kind of hone in on it. It ranges all
the way up into like a much more areas like
ongoing process, we're working together, maybe we're working together in person.
(03:14):
I'm getting to know them on a much deeper level,
and so it's more kind of like doula support. I'm
a trained yep, yeah, yeah, So I use my background
and my training in yeah kind of childbirth to help
families who are kind of navigating the murky waters of
the physiological process of pregnancy and birth.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
For the higher end that is called baby named branding.
So i'd be working with families, yeah, So for families
who you know, are in the public eye, they're going.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
To be made right, Okay, so.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
They might need a little bit of extra help just
making sure that the name that they do ultimately choose
aligns with the brand and like what they're known for, because.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
It has become a bit of a naming a celebrity
child thing. It's almost like uncouth to name a celebrity
child you're Williams, or you have Sarah's or that's just
not public gets disappointed, disappointed that again.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
This is why I bring up the subject of brand.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
The brand of the couple it.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Is and it's like if you made a name for
yourself on being silly on YouTube, for example, perhaps the
best name for actually is Malibu, Barbie or Wow. Christia Pates,
I don't know if you are familiar with her in Australia,
she was the big YouTube star named her kid Aquaman.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Who is that? Who's Who's that? Sorry? She named a
child Aquaman?
Speaker 4 (04:49):
She did? She does have three kids Malibu, Barbie, Elvis
and Aquaman. That feels perfectly aligned to her and to
her brand. I say, more power to you politicians or
or presidential hopefuls or you know people who are trying
to assents they probably would not want to choose a
(05:13):
name like Aquam.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
I do like Aquaman for president on my list.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
I think that's what the world is missing, is president.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
So here's the question, Taylor, so Woods and I you know,
we're both expecting.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
I didn't know that this was going to be a question,
but I prepared just wow huge, and I was like, oh,
I hope I get to use this. I wish I
had more time to prepare it to get this perfect.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Well, okay, wow, this is.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
Wild for we got he loves cycling, he loves the
movie Gladiator. That checks out very silly, and his wife
and his wife is an artist.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Yeah that'll that'll checks out and actually honest about me,
which is good.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
I think I have distilled it into some very good names.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Oh my baby, come at any moment, like my life
is thirty eight weeks pregnant and we currently have a name,
so you would be.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
Oh, okay, well, I'm sure that your name is going
to be way better than anything I could possibly come
up with. I always say that to my clients, like
you know yourselves better than I ever will. I'm just here.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Forts is pretty good, Okay, Tyler. If I really like
one of these names, I'm gonna put a beep over it,
just because I just think if if if everyone listening.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Right now he's the name, then then it kind of
ruins it. Okay, let's go far away.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
So I really ran with the Gladiator movie. So for boys,
I had to go with Oh, I had to go
with Aurelius. I know it's big, old, but.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
It's so good. What would you go through? Good? Would
you go for a nickname? There? That one?
Speaker 4 (07:05):
I'm not sure?
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Yeah? Whoa yeah, okay, yeah cool cool cool.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
I also, just as an aside, I think that Maximus
is kind of bold too, but I.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Think whoa, that's powerful.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
You get a good nickname like oh I.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Love oh wow she is Tyler, You're good, okay, any
anything else okay.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
And then for girls, I think again, just some very
beautiful Roman girl names like Lavina, Claudia, Alura.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Oh Claudia, whoa okay?
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (07:50):
If you if you had to a reckon for the boy,
wild like, I think that's that just feels that feels right.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
I love I feel the past.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
I want to pitch that one for girl, if you
had to choose one for a girl, who would you
go for?
Speaker 4 (08:03):
I'm going for a girl.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Wow. Wow, this was or even of beautiful.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Okay, yeah, this is this. This changes everything for me
and my wife.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Now it's going to be an interesting conversation tonight with
me and my wife.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Okay, she's good. She's worth single dollar of that forty
five a right, Okay, Okay, I mean I'm stunned.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Friends and family.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Wow, Wowie, why don't I pitch right now?
Speaker 1 (08:35):
I hate to just steal your name giving experience ceremony
with Taylor.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Fine, you're in the job zone, bro. I mean, min
could go at any more urgent.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
I need to pitch these names now, otherwise the opportunity
is gone.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Maybe Taylor can come back tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Taylor, I hate to put that on you, but maybe
you can come back tomorrow to name Will's future child.
My Heart podcasts, hear More Kids podcasts, playlists and listen
live on the Free.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
I heard app and I.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Both expecting at the moment would trow and look up
through this. Around the other day, I said, what's what
we need for these names to name these new kids
of ours?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Is a professional baby namer.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Now, there was a story that came out this woman
based in San Francisco, or Taylor A. Humphrey, who is
charging forty five thousand dollars Australian allegedly.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
That's what reported.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
That's what's been reported, forty four one baby name. That
was the story, right, rattling, ratling, But also she must.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Be good as well. That's more.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
The more we discussed it, you know, it's almost like
having a priceless piece of art in your house. You know,
you've got a Jackson Pollock for a painting, you've got
a Humphrey for a baby exactly.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Taylor A. Humphrey joins us live right now from the US.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Welcome Taylor, thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Have we got the figure right? Taylor?
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Do you do you charge forty five thousand dollars a name?
Speaker 4 (01:08):
I'm going to have to go on to Google to
make sure that the exchange rate is correct. But yeah,
I do offer some VIP packages. They start in USD
ten thousand, they go up from there my Kardashian packages.
So this is a very different service. Like the majority
of my clients, they just need a little bit of
(01:28):
help honing in on that perfect name. They already have
a list, they're just trying to find like a happy medium.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
How do you decide that you're going to go into
a career where you name babies?
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Well, the truth is, you really don't. This career definitely
chose me. I always had an interest in baby names.
I was reading baby name books since the time I
could learn to read and write, and I started writing
about names on Instagram back in twenty fifteen. The more
that I would post about the numerology of the names,
(02:03):
the personality traits of certain names, the more parents started
writing to me and saying, well, what should I name
my baby? I had no idea that this is something
that parents really struggled with, So I decided to create
a process around helping them, you know, get that perfect
name and get it signed on the birth certificate.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
So what's the process? Tail?
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Generally, every package starts with an in depth questionnaire. I
want to get to know the families as well as
I can offer as much support I can at you know,
the various tiered prices. So for some families, it is
just starting with that initial questionnaire and then I'm just
giving a little bit of feedback, just helping them again
to narrow down their lists. Offering a little bit of
(02:50):
insight into popularity and spelling is a big one, like
should we go with a really popular spelling, do we
go with a less popular spelling elongated name? Do we
go with the nickname? So for that it's just helping
them kind of hone in on it. It ranges all
the way up into like a much more areas like
ongoing process, we're working together, maybe we're working together in person.
(03:14):
I'm getting to know them on a much deeper level,
and so it's more kind of like doula support. I'm
a trained yep, yeah, yeah, So I use my background
and my training in yeah kind of childbirth to help
families who are kind of navigating the murky waters of
the physiological process of pregnancy and birth.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
For the higher end that is called baby named branding.
So i'd be working with families, yeah, So for families
who you know, are in the public eye, they're going.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
To be made right, Okay, so.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
They might need a little bit of extra help just
making sure that the name that they do ultimately choose
aligns with the brand and like what they're known for, because.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
It has become a bit of a naming a celebrity
child thing. It's almost like uncouth to name a celebrity
child you're Williams, or you have Sarah's or that's just
not public gets disappointed, disappointed that again.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
This is why I bring up the subject of brand.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
The brand of the couple it.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Is and it's like if you made a name for
yourself on being silly on YouTube, for example, perhaps the
best name for actually is Malibu, Barbie or Wow. Christia Pates,
I don't know if you are familiar with her in Australia,
she was the big YouTube star named her kid Aquaman.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Who is that? Who's Who's that? Sorry? She named a
child Aquaman?
Speaker 4 (04:49):
She did? She does have three kids Malibu, Barbie, Elvis
and Aquaman. That feels perfectly aligned to her and to
her brand. I say, more power to you politicians or
or presidential hopefuls or you know people who are trying
to assents they probably would not want to choose a
(05:13):
name like Aquam.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
I do like Aquaman for president on my list.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
I think that's what the world is missing, is president.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
So here's the question, Taylor, so Woods and I you know,
we're both expecting.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
I didn't know that this was going to be a question,
but I prepared just wow huge, and I was like, oh,
I hope I get to use this. I wish I
had more time to prepare it to get this perfect.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Well, okay, wow, this is.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
Wild for we got he loves cycling, he loves the
movie Gladiator. That checks out very silly, and his wife
and his wife is an artist.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Yeah that'll that'll checks out and actually honest about me,
which is good.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
I think I have distilled it into some very good names.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Oh my baby, come at any moment, like my life
is thirty eight weeks pregnant and we currently have a name,
so you would be.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
Oh, okay, well, I'm sure that your name is going
to be way better than anything I could possibly come
up with. I always say that to my clients, like
you know yourselves better than I ever will. I'm just here.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Forts is pretty good, Okay, Tyler. If I really like
one of these names, I'm gonna put a beep over it,
just because I just think if if if everyone listening.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Right now he's the name, then then it kind of
ruins it. Okay, let's go far away.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
So I really ran with the Gladiator movie. So for boys,
I had to go with Oh, I had to go
with Aurelius. I know it's big, old, but.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
It's so good. What would you go through? Good? Would
you go for a nickname? There? That one?
Speaker 4 (07:05):
I'm not sure?
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Yeah? Whoa yeah, okay, yeah cool cool cool.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
I also, just as an aside, I think that Maximus
is kind of bold too, but I.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Think whoa, that's powerful.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
You get a good nickname like oh I.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Love oh wow she is Tyler, You're good, okay, any
anything else okay.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
And then for girls, I think again, just some very
beautiful Roman girl names like Lavina, Claudia, Alura.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Oh Claudia, whoa okay?
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (07:50):
If you if you had to a reckon for the boy,
wild like, I think that's that just feels that feels right.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
I love I feel the past.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
I want to pitch that one for girl, if you
had to choose one for a girl, who would you
go for?
Speaker 4 (08:03):
I'm going for a girl.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Wow. Wow, this was or even of beautiful.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Okay, yeah, this is this. This changes everything for me
and my wife.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Now it's going to be an interesting conversation tonight with
me and my wife.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Okay, she's good. She's worth single dollar of that forty
five a right, Okay, Okay, I mean I'm stunned.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Friends and family.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Wow, Wowie, why don't I pitch right now?
Speaker 1 (08:35):
I hate to just steal your name giving experience ceremony
with Taylor.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Fine, you're in the job zone, bro. I mean, min
could go at any more urgent.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
I need to pitch these names now, otherwise the opportunity
is gone.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Maybe Taylor can come back tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Taylor, I hate to put that on you, but maybe
you can come back tomorrow to name Will's future child.
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