Like Nameberry, which regards itself as the world\u2019s largest baby naming site, Humphrey is capitalising on a growing trend of parents fretting over the \u201cperfect\u201d name.<\/p>\n
Pamela Redmond, chief executive of the website, told the San Francisco Chronicle curated services help parents deal with the pressure to pick something special.<\/p>\n
\u201cA lot of people say they want a name that\u2019s unique or individual. But, when it comes right down to it, they really don\u2019t. Most baby name consultants are selling a vast idea of what constitutes good taste.\u201d<\/p>\n
But Humphrey said her work goes beyond name selection.<\/p>\n
On her Instagram, the trained doula wrote \u201cI don\u2019t name peoples babies; I help them craft legacies that will stand the test of time\u201d.<\/p>\n
Her full-service offering is limited only to prospective parents\u2019 \u201cown imagination\u201d and can include benefits like baby name branding or a naming think tank.<\/p>\n
While she started out charging a flat rate of $172 (US$100), over the years, Humphrey increased her prices as her customer base expanded to the uber-wealthy.<\/p>\n
A New Yorker profile published her starting package price of $2590 (US$1500) in 2022 – to much public ridicule. <\/p>\n
\u201cI had to come to terms with the fact that people often find me through content that pokes fun at me,\u201d she told the San Francisco Chronicle.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt the same time, I\u2019m like, \u2018Well, it is silly.\u2019 I come up with baby names for a living.\u201d<\/p>\n
But it seems Humphrey is having the last laugh.<\/p>\n
While she wouldn\u2019t say what she was currently making a year, the New York Post previously reported she made an estimated $221,000 (US$150,000) in 2020. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Like Nameberry, which regards itself as the world\u2019s largest baby naming site, Humphrey is capitalising on a growing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42344,45669,6794,1558,45670,1873,10712,45667,13245,305,42,5838,45668,45671,44191,5969,13617,21409,13631,43,3766,15407,9939,163,165,61,40,38,41,39,9938,810,102,1354],"class_list":["post-53655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-42344","tag-50k","tag-baby","tag-been","tag-bundles","tag-charges","tag-claiming","tag-consultant","tag-expecting","tag-have","tag-headlines","tag-help","tag-humphrey","tag-joy","tag-lucrative","tag-much","tag-name","tag-names","tag-never","tag-news","tag-parents","tag-pick","tag-states","tag-taylor","tag-their","tag-to","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-united","tag-up","tag-with","tag-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}