Considering that there are more than 32,000 adult day cares in the United States alone, it’s no surprise that settling on a unique name when starting an adult day care business is no easy task.
Picking the right name gives potential customers an idea about your business’s services, creates a good first impression, and helps you stand out from the competition.
What adult day care names can you use? How do you come up with something that represents your brand best? And what about business name best practices?
If you’re not sure how to answer those questions, you’re in the right place. Keep reading to learn my top tips for choosing the perfect business name and how to make sure your favorite choices are available to use.
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Guidelines for Naming Your Adult Day Care Business
If you’re struggling to choose a company name for your adult day care, one of the best things to do is just to start brainstorming. As you go through the tips outlined below, make a list of words, phrases, and terms associated with your business.
From there, you can narrow down the list and cross off ideas you don’t like.
Once you have several top considerations, we’ll walk you through how to make sure you’re allowed to use them. This last step helps you narrow down your list even more so you can make a final decision.
1. Location-Specific Terms
Many adult daycares are specific to a geographic service area. So, if that’s true for your business, consider adding a location-specific term to your business name.
You can consider things like:
- City nicknames
- Neighborhoods
- Regions or states
- And descriptive terms
However, consider what happens if you expand outside your intended service area. Does the name become limiting? If so, it’s best to avoid it if you plan to expand or change directions later.
2. Avoid Business Names That Are Hard to Pronounce or Spell
Despite the technological advances in voice search, assistants like Siri and Alexa struggle to understand slang and other confusing words.
This could limit how often your business shows up in voice (and text-based) search if your name is hard to spell, pronounce, or hear. Because of that, it’s important to avoid complicated words, industry jargon, and using numbers in place of letters. While having a unique adult day care name is good, being too unique may not be so good.
Keep your business name as simple and easy to remember as possible so potential customers can easily find you.
3. Consider Alliterations and Rhyming Words
Alliterations and rhymes are catchy and easy to remember. Because of that, they make for great business names.
That said, it’s not always easy to come up with them. Start by choosing a few of your favorite words from your master brainstorming list.
Then, you can Google “words that start with C” to come up with a name like Compassionate Care or S for Senior Services or whatever letter you’re using to create an alliteration. Alternatively, you can search “words that rhyme with _____.”
It can be time-consuming, but it’s an excellent place to start.
And don’t forget to add any exciting finds to your brainstorm list while you’re at it. Try not to overthink the names you come up with. Just write them all down, as some of the more interesting ones may spark better ideas later.
4. Steer Clear of Initials or Obscure Acronyms
Initials and unusual acronyms are hard to remember, so they typically don’t make great business names. They can also be challenging to pronounce and confusing for voice search as well.
Furthermore, there are 325 different two-letter combination possibilities in the English language. And the odds of your customers remembering the specific letters you chose are pretty small.
5. Imagery Words
Another consideration when brainstorming name ideas is whether there are industry-related words that could also lend themselves to be used in a logo. For instance, an adult day care could use a heart or hands and focus the name around the image.
Related: How to create a logo for your business.
6. Try the Owner’s Name
If you’ve made it this far and are still struggling to find the best name, you can always consider using the business owner’s name. Doing so works well if the owner also plans to be the face behind the business.
Something to keep in mind is that using the owner’s name as the business name can make it more challenging to sell the business in the future.
List of Catchy Adult Day Care Business Names
Here is a list of existing adult day care names that may help give you some creative ideas. While many of these names may be available for you to use, be sure to check first to be sure they can be used.
Tips on how to check business name availability are after the list of names!
- A Better Life Adult Day Care
- A Gift Of Time – Adult Day Care
- A Happy Heart Adult Care Service
- A New Day Adult Day Service
- Above & Beyond Adult Day Care
- Active Day Senior Health Care
- Adult Day Care Center
- Adult Day Care Services
- Adult Day Services
- Aged To Perfection
- Always Best Care
- American Adult Day Care Center
- American Adult Daycare
- Among Friends Adult Daycare
- Angel Day Care
- Anytime Senior Care Service
- Autumn Adult Day Service
- Be Encouraged Senior Daycare
- Benevolence Adult Day Care
- Big Smiles Care Service
- Blessings Adult Daycare
- Bliss Adult Day Care
- Bliss Social Adult Day Care
- Blue Hill Adult Day Health Center
- Blue Jay Adult Day Care
- Brighter Day Adult Day Care
- Brighter Horizons Adult Day
- California Senior Day Care
- Caring Hands & More
- Caring Hearts & Hands
- Casa Del Sol Adult Day Care
- Comfort Adult Day Care
- Companion Day Center Of Arizona
- Compassionate Care Adult Daycare
- Daycation Senior Center
- Esplendor Adult Day Care
- Essentials Adult Day Care Corp
- Ethnic Adult Day Care Center
- Evergreen Senior Daycare
- Everyday Sunshine Adult Daycare
- Faithful Adult Daycare Service
- Family Daycare
- Family First Adult Day Care
- Five Star Adult Day Care
- Golden Age Adult Day Care
- Golden Family Adult Day Care
- Good Hope Senior Care
- Grace & Prosperity Adult Care
- Grace Adult Day Program
- Grandparents Adult Day Care
- Great Memories Adult Day Care
- Guardian Angel Adult Daycare
- Happy Days Adult Care Center
- Happy Place Adult Daycare
- Harmony Adult Daycare
- Heart To Heart Adult Daycare
- Hearthstone Care
- Heartland Adult Day Care
- Hearts For Minds Adult Care
- Heavenly Manor Adult Day Care
- Helpin’ Hands
- Home Away From Home
- Hope Springs Adult Daycare
- Horizons Adult Day Care
- Independence Home Care
- Judy’s Place Adult Day Program
- Just Like Home Adult Day Center
- Legacy Care Club
- Life Adult Day Care
- Life Essence Adult Day Service
- Los Angeles Adult Day Care
- Love & Joy Adult Day Care
- Loved One Adult Day Care
- Loving Family Care
- Loving Life Adult Day Care
- Millennium Home Adult Day
- Modesto Adult Day Program
- Morning Star Adult Day Care
- New Life Adult Care
- Open Arms Adult Care
- Optimum Adult Day Service
- Papas Place Adult Day Care
- Peace Of Mind Adult Day Care
- Precious Hearts Adult Social
- Rainbow Adult Day Health
- Riverfront Adult Day Care
- Senior Care Center
- Senior Safe Care
- Senior Service
- Shifting Sands Adult Day Center
- Silver Slippers Senior Day Cr
- Starlight Retreat Adult Daycare
- Stay For A Day Adult Day Care
- Stepping Stones Adult Day Care
- Sunshine Personal Care
- Sweet Home Senior Daycare
- Tender Care Adult Daycare Center
- TLC Adult Day Care
- Today’s Care Adult Day Care
- Trusted Souls Adult Daycare
- We Care Adult Daycare
- Welcoming Arms
- Well Being Adult Day Care
- Whispering Willows Adult Day Care
Is Your Adult Day Care Name Available?
At this point, you should have several top considerations to choose from. And the best way to narrow it down further is to check each one for availability.
This step is helpful because using a name that someone else is using could be very costly, time-consuming to rebrand your business, and possibly embarrassing. There are several places to look to check whether a name is available to use, so let’s walk through each one.
Can the business name be registered in your state?
If you plan to use a specific business name, you may be required by the state to verify it’s available to use.
Related: How to check business name availability in your state
Is your name already trademarked?
When searching for a name for your new business, you should check that your new name isn’t trademarked by someone else. If it is, you may not be allowed to use it legally.
Thankfully, the United States Patent Trademark Office (USPTO) makes trademark searching a breeze through their Trademark Database.
A name isn’t necessarily available if it doesn’t appear in this search. Every business has some limited protection through a common law trademark. This means another business can’t open up down the street with the same name, as this creates confusion for customers. Also, check local competitors by doing a Google search and looking through the Yellow Pages.
If your name is available and you want to protect it from being used by anyone else, you can register it with the USPTO.
Related: How to check for a trademark
Hopefully, you now have some ideas to name your adult day care. Once you have narrowed this list to just a few and researched that they are all available, start asking friends, family, and potential customers their thoughts to get feedback, and then pick your perfect adult day care name!
