Considering there are many dumpster rental businesses in the United States, it’s no surprise settling on a unique name when starting a dumpster rental company 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 dumpster rental business names are you allowed to use? How do you come up with something that represents your brand best? And what about business name best practices?
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Guidelines for Naming Your Dumpster Rental Business
If you’re struggling to choose a company name for your dumpster rental business, one of the best things to do is 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
A dumpster rental business can offer several types of services, so it’s worth considering the services you plan to offer when picking a name. Maybe you want to focus on commercial, residential, or hazardous waste management. Perhaps you’re considering offering other specialty services.
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
Many dumpster rental businesses 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) searches 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 dumpster rental business 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.
4. 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 T” to come up with a name like Trash Takers or D for Dumpster Dudes 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.
5. Steer Clear of Initials or Obscure Acronyms
Initials and unusual acronyms are hard to remember, so they typically don’t make great small 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. For instance, a dumpster rental business could use an image of a dumpster or a trash truck 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 Dumpster Rental Business Names
Here is a list of existing dumpster rental business names that may help you come up with 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 for new business name availability are after the list of names!
- 1 Community Dumpster
- 108 Disposal
- 365 Disposal & Recycling
- 4 State Roll Off Service
- A & J Commercial Dumpsters
- AAA Trash Be Gone
- Able Dumpster Rental
- Abraham Carriers
- Acadia Roll-Offs
- Access Disposal
- Ace Garbage Pickup
- Affordable Construction Dumpster
- Affordable Disposal
- Affordable Dumpster OK
- Affordable Roll Offs
- Ag & Sons Rolloff Service
- All American Dumpsters
- All Purpose Dumpster
- All Service Refuse Co
- All-Haul Waste Service
- Allied Dumpster Rentals
- American Waste Service
- Austin Garbage Grabbers
- Bay Area Dumpsters
- Bedlam Disposal
- Big Buck Dumpsters
- Big Country Roll-Offs
- Big Dogs Dumpster Service
- Big Stuff Trash
- Bigger Than Texas Trash
- Bin There Dump That
- Black Hills Dumpster Rentals
- Blue Ridge Trash Solutions
- Broomm Trash Valet
- Brother’s Disposal
- Bullseye Dumpsters
- Buster’s Dumpsters
- Capital Dumpster Service
- Circle H Rolloffs
- Citrus Roll Off Dumpster
- Concept Dumpster Service
- Daddy’s Dumpsters
- Darkhorse Dumpster
- Dependable Dumpsters
- Dial 3 Dumpster
- Diamond Dumpsters
- Discount Dumpster Rental
- Discount Dumpster
- Dorsey Dumpsters
- Double D’s Dumpsters Service
- Dumpstars – Mini Dumpster Rental
- Dumpster Bandit
- Dumpster Buddy
- Dumpster Dan
- Dumpster Diva
- Dumpster Dude
- Dumpster Dudes
- Dumpster Duo
- Dumpster Express
- Dumpster Pro
- Dumpster Rental Service
- Dumpster Today
- Dumpsters Express
- Dumpsters Made Easy
- Elite Dumpster Rentals
- Everready Rolloffs
- Florida Dumpsters
- Frank’s Dumpster Service
- Gorilla Dumpster Rental
- Gulfcoast Dumpster
- Guy’s Hauling & Dumpster Service
- Haulaway Dumpsters
- Humpty Dumpsters
- Ideal Rolloff & Equipment
- In & Out Dumpster
- Jet Roll Off Dumpsters
- Joe’s Junk Removal Service
- Jones Dumpsters
- Just Dumpster
- K&L Haul Away Service
- King Of Dumpsters
- Lady Dumpster
- Load & Go Dumpsters
- Local Easy Dumpster
- Mid Tenn Rolloff
- Mini Bini Dumpsters
- Need A Dumpster
- No D-Lay Transfer
- Norcal Bin Service
- North Texas Roll Off
- Onsite Disposal
- On-Site Dumpsters
- Paragon Dumpster Rental
- Peachtree Waste
- Penn Container
- Permian Disposal Solutions
- Phillip Bros Disposal
- Pro Dumpsters
- Rack & Roll
- Rapid Dumpster
- Ray’s Roll Off
- Ready Now Dumpster Rental
- Rescue Dumpsters
- Rocket Dumpster
- Roll Off Express
- Roll-Offs R Us
- Ruggiero Brothers Carting
- Shawnee Dumpsters
- South Florida Dumpsters
- Southern Dumpsters
- Superior Dumpster Rental
- T L C Disposal
- Tarheel Containers
- Temporary Dumpster Solutions
- Tiger Dumpster
- Top Notch Containers
- Tote Away
- Ultimate Rentals
- United Dumpsters
- Unlimited Dumpsters
- USA Dumpster Rentals
- Vanish Rolloffs
- Waste Carting & Disposal
- We Bring It Dumpster Rental
- We Got Dumpsters
- Western Waste Bin Rental
- World Is Your Dumpster
- Your Trash Transporters
Is Your Dumpster Rental 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 dumpster rental business. 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 dumpster rental business name!
