Considering there are more than 885,000 cleaning companies in the United States alone, it’s no surprise settling on a unique name when starting a commercial cleaning company can be challenging.
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.
Are there registration requirements for a commercial cleaning company name? How do you come up with something that represents your brand best? And what about business name best practices?
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Tips for Choosing the Perfect Commercial Cleaning Company Name
If you’re struggling to choose a company name for your commercial cleaning company, 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 services an commercial cleaning company can offer, so it’s worth considering those services when picking a name. Maybe you want to focus on hospitals and medical offices or floor care. 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 commercial cleaning companies 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 Say 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 commercial cleaning company 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 B” to come up with a name like Bucket Brigade or S for Sparkle Specialists, or use 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 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 commercial cleaning company could use an image of a mop or bubbles 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 Unique Commercial Cleaning Business Names
Here is a list of existing commercial cleaning company 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 it can be used.
Tips on how to check business name availability are after the list of names!
- 2 Girlz & A Bucket
- 3H Commercial Cleaning Services
- 5 Stars Janitorial Service
- A A A Cleaning Service
- A Plus Commercial Cleaning
- A Professional Building Service
- A+ Cleaning Solutions
- Accu-Clean
- Action Cleaning Service
- Advanced Building Maintenance
- Advanced Cleanroom Solutions
- Advanced Specialty Cleaning
- Affordable Commercial Cleaners
- All Business Cleaning
- All Clean
- All Control Cleaning
- All Pro Cleaning
- All Seasons Cleaning
- Alpha Janitorial Service
- Amber’s Facility Maintenance
- Ameri Clean Choice
- Ameri Clean Solutions
- American Cleaning Service
- American Janitorial
- AMF Cleaning & Maintenance
- Anderson Cleaning Solutions
- Andrew’s Janitorial Service
- Authentic Commercial Cleaning
- Aztec Janitorial
- B & B Total Care Cleaning
- Back-Up Cleaning Service
- Badger Commercial Cleaning Service
- Balanced Earth Pro Cleaning
- Bay Area Pro Cleaning
- Bay Area’s Cleaning Team
- Bell Janitorial Service
- Best Janitorial Service
- Biggs Industrial Cleaning
- Blue Bird Commercial Cleaning
- Bluegrass Commercial Cleaning
- Blueprint Cleaning Specialists
- Bonded Building Cleaning
- Bright Cleaning Services
- Building Cleaning Service
- Business Cleaning Solutions
- Busy Bee Cleaning Service
- Buzz Janitorial Services
- Caliclean Janitorial & Mntnc
- California Office Cleaning
- Cascade Cleaning & Maintenance
- Central Commercial Cleaning
- Central Valley Commercial Service
- City Janitorial Service
- Classic Janitorial Service
- Clean Break
- Clean Impact Commercial Office Cleaning
- Clean Queen
- Clean Sweep Janitor Service
- Clean Tastic LLC
- Clean Team Of Fresno
- Clean Up Guy’s
- Clean Works
- Cleaning Bee
- Cleaning Co Of San Diego
- Cleaning Crew
- Cleaning Solutions Janitorial
- Cleaning Team LLC
- Commercial Building Services
- Commercial Cleaning Specialists
- Commercial Cleaning Team
- Commercial Green Cleaning
- Commercial Janitorial Services
- Commercial Mobile Cleaning
- Commercial Quality Cleaning
- Complete & Quality Janitorial
- Core Business Cleaning
- Crimson Cleaning
- Crusader Cleaning
- Diamond Shine
- Diligent Janitorial Co
- Dirt Fighters Commercial Cleaning Service
- Dirty Deeds Janitorial Service
- Down And Dirty Cleaning Service
- Dr. Janitor
- Dust Bunnies
- Dust Busters
- Eagle Eye Commercial Cleaning
- Eco Commercial Janitorial Services
- Elite Cleaning Solutions
- Emerald Janitorial
- Enviro Clean Abatement Service
- Excellence Janitorial
- Executive Cleanse
- Expert Custodial Services
- Free Spirit Commercial Cleaning
- Fresh N’ Clean Janitorial Service
- Gleam Team
- Go Green Commercial Cleaning and Carpet Cleaning
- Golden Shine
- Green Clean Commercial
- Green Clean Team
- Grime Busters
- Groove Cleaning Service
- Icing Cleaning
- Innovative Cleaners
- Just In Time Maid Services
- LRL Commercial Cleaning
- Magic Broom Cleaning Services
- Magic Moppers
- Magic Rags
- Maid Brigade
- Maid to the Rescue
- Majestic Cleaning Company
- Meticulous Maids
- Minute Maids
- Mr. Clean
- No Mess Too Big or Small
- Office Management Services
- Office Prid
- e Commercial Cleaning Services
- Office Pride Commercial Cleaning
- Orancom Cleaning Service
- Patriots Windows & Cleaning
- Peppy Cleaning Service
- Perfectionism Cleaning
- Polished to Perfection
- Precision Office Cleaning
- Pristine Cleaning
- Professional Building Service
- Professional Cleaning Services
- Rag Tag Team
- Rainbow Cleaners
- Scrub Science of Nevada
- Select Commercial Cleaning Services
- Sharp Edge Cleaning
- Soft-Touch Cleaners
- Sparkle – Residential & Commercial Cleaning
- Spotless Cleaning
- Spotless Services
- Square One Commercial Cleaning Services
- Starshine Cleaning & Maintenance
- The Cleaning Authority
- The Cleaning Co
- The Cleaning Wizard
- The Dirty Spot
- Tidy Shine
- Titan Up Commercial Cleaning
- True Shine
- Tucson Eco-Clean
- Twin City Cleaning Corp
- White Glove Cleaning Service
- Wildcat Cleaning & Restoration
Is Your Commercial Cleaning Business Name Available to Use?
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 the common ones.
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 for your commercial cleaning company. Once you have narrowed this list to just a few and researched, they are all available; start asking friends, family, and potential customers their thoughts to get feedback, and then pick the best commercial cleaning company name for you!
