There are more than 63,000 furniture stores in the United States alone. So, it’s no surprise that settling on a unique name when starting a furniture business feels impossible.
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.
Have all the good furniture store names already been taken? How do you come up with something fresh? 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 across the board.
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Tips for Choosing the Best Furniture Store Name
If you’re struggling to choose a company name for your furniture store, 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. Consider the Services You Plan to Offer
There are several types of furniture stores, so it’s essential to consider the products you plan to offer. Maybe you want to focus on living room furniture or bedroom furniture. Perhaps you want only to sell office furniture, or maybe you’re considering offering other specialty products.
Add the different types of services you want to offer to your brainstorming list.
Remember to avoid anything limiting your business’s future growth if you decide to go in another direction down the road.
2. Location-Specific Terms
Most furniture stores 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.
3. 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 furniture store name is good, being too unique may not be so good.
Keep your furniture company name as simple and easy to remember as possible so potential customers can easily find you.
4. Consider Alliterations and Rhyming Words
Alliterations and rhymes are catchy and easy to remember. Because of that, they can make for great 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 F” to come up with a name like Fantastic Furniture or C for Crafted Collections 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 brainstorming list while you’re at it. Try not to overthink the names you come up with during this stage. Just write them all down, as some of the more interesting ones may spark better store name ideas later.
5. 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.
6. 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 design. For instance, a furniture store could use an image of a sofa or desk and focus the name around the image.
Related: How to create a logo for your business.
7. Still Struggling? 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 Furniture Store Business Name Ideas
Here is a list of existing furniture store names that may help give you some creative name 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!
- 209 Furniture
- A Beautiful Life Furnishings
- A Touch Of Country
- All Things Furniture
- Alpha & Omega Furniture
- Alpine Furniture
- American Furniture
- American Furniture Galleries
- American Home Décor
- Arlina’s New & Used Furniture
- Baja Furniture
- Baker Interiors Furniture Co
- Bay Area Business Furniture
- Beautiful Home Furniture
- Bella Home Furnishings
- Best Buy Furniture
- Best Furniture
- Best Home Furnishings
- Better Home Group Furniture
- Big City Furniture
- Bob’s Discount Furniture
- Brothers Furniture
- Casa Bella Home Furnishing
- Casa Decor Plus
- Casa Latina Furniture
- Colorado Furniture
- Comfy Bed Furniture
- Cost lus World Market
- Cost U Less Furniture
- Crafty Furniture
- Crest Office Furniture
- Custom Sofa Co
- Desert Discount Furniture
- Design Within Unique Style
- Discount Everyday Furniture
- Economy Mattress & Furniture
- Elegant Home Furniture
- Elite Home Furniture
- Elk Grove Furniture Outlet
- Fantastic Furnishings
- Fatcat Sofa
- Fine Furniture Group
- First Rate Furniture
- Five Star Furniture
- Functional Furnishing
- Furniture & Beyond
- Furniture & Mattress Corner
- Furniture 4 Lessss
- Furniture Ave
- Furniture City
- Furniture Collective
- Furniture Discount
- Furniture Express
- Furniture Factory
- Furniture For You
- Furniture Gallery
- Furniture Heaven
- Furniture King
- Furniture Land
- Furniture Liquidation
- Furniture N Beyond
- Furniture Of America
- Furniture Palace
- Furniture Shack
- Furniture Superstore
- Furniture Trading Co.
- Hollywood Glam Furniture
- Home Comforts
- Home Comforts Furniture
- Home Design Furniture
- Home Discount Furniture
- Home Rooms Furniture
- Home Style Furniture
- House Of Furniture & Mattress
- In Style Furniture
- Interior Furniture Design
- Internacional Furniture Outlet
- Kay’s Furniture & Bedding
- L A Furniture Express
- Latitudes Furniture
- Luxury Home Furnishings
- M & M Office Furniture
- Man Cave Collective
- Mancini’s Sleep World
- Mattress Land & Furniture
- Modern City Furniture
- Monarch Home Furnishings
- My Sofa Factory
- Neighborhood Furniture
- New & Used Furniture Outlet
- New Modern Furniture
- Priced Rite Chairs & Sofas
- Primo Furniture
- Quality Furniture & Mattress
- Queen Home Furniture
- Ramos Furniture Home Store
- Real Home Furnishings
- Recycled Office Furniture
- Roomors Home Furnishings
- Royal Oaks Furniture
- Rustic Home Furniture
- Simplicity Sofas
- Simply Home Furnishing
- Sweet & Cozy Furniture
- Take Me Home Furnishings
- The Furniture Shoppe
- Thomas Furniture Mart
- Top Drawer Furniture
- Topline Furniture
- Tru Bargain Furniture
- Unique Furniture
- Woodworks Furniture
- Your Space Furniture
- Zero Down Furniture
Is Your Furniture Store 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 good name ideas to name your furniture store. 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 furniture store name!
