Watching news of this type I wonder if the world has gone crazy, parents have gone crazy or what could have happened. The desire to have special, unique children goes to absurd extremes at times.
Would you be able to pay 30,000 euros for your child to have a unique name? Well, it seems that there are people who are willing, and to attract that select clientele a company offers this service.
It is a Swiss company, called Erflogswelle, dedicated to creating names for brands and products, but it has gone a step further after its director helped some friends to choose the name of its offspring.
How to find a unique name for your child?
It’s not really something we can do with just a Google search. The “crawlers” tasked with finding a unique anthroponym in twelve different languages spend around 100 hours on the entire process , and they dare to guarantee that the selected name is not owned by anyone in the world.
They have 12 translators who speak the most common languages of the world among 5.5 billion people. Together with the translators, the creative team puts together a list of 15 to 25 unique names using a combination of different words. Those names are what are presented to the customer for review.
After the family has chosen their favorites, a team of professional historians will look for any existence of those names in history.
Oh, and if you do not have so many pretensions and you are satisfied that your child has a unique name only at the national level , about 18,000 euros will suffice. The procedure is the same, but the scope of search and crawl is reduced.
The company points out that it is not just a simple name, that it is very important for them to offer a name that fits within the culture and the family. In a month of life, it already has some requests, although families have requested that their identities be kept private. I bet anything that their circle will let it be known that they have made this disbursement …
And what kind of names will come out? I guess pretty “weird” … The thing about making sure it’s a unique name can only be possible if it is. But how efficient will the tracking be in the records, in the archives, on the internet? I don’t want to think about the parents’ displeasure if someone with the same name were found out!
It is clear that in this case only exclusivity is sought when making the decision and the meaning and tradition are not taken into account, the other factors that normally influence when we look for a name for our children.
Why so much exclusivity?
I understand that some parents do not feel like having two or three children with the same name in their children’s class, or that when calling home on the phone there should be no question, “Father or son?” But from there to looking for exclusivity there is a long way.
We see that the madness to be “special” or rather to make our children “special”, has no limits . Paying such an amount of money to find a unique name for our son seems like a sad waste to me. Everything that could be done for the education of these children!
Although surely these families also spend a fortune in the most expensive and prestigious schools, those that forge future achievers, those that pass intelligence tests to babies. Another of the obsessions of many parents today.
Anyway, I’m sure you can also think of many ways to spend money on something more useful. In the end, although the name of the people is important, it is not decisive, not even final. What will these parents think if the son decides to change his name in the future?
Spending 30,000 euros to give your son a unique name in the world is an eccentricity of, as I said at the beginning, a crazy world. As Mafalda would say … stop, I’m getting off!
Via | AbcNews
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