Considering there are more than 32,000 pressure washing businesses in the United States alone, it’s no surprise settling on a unique name when starting a new business 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.
What pressure washing 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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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.
Tips for Choosing the Best Pressure Washing Business Name
If you’re struggling to choose a catchy name for your pressure washing 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 a pressure washing business can offer, so it’s worth considering those services when picking a name. Maybe you want to focus on exterior building washing or swimming pool cleaning.
Perhaps you’re considering offering other specialty services.
Add the different types of services you want to offer to your brainstorming list. For a boost of creativity, expand the words around what your business does using the thesaurus from your word processor or thesaurus.com to come up with additional synonyms.
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 pressure washing 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 pressure washing business name is good, being too unique may not be 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 P” to come up with a name like Pro Pressure or G for Grime Guys 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 business name ideas to your brainstorming 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 pressure washing business could use an image of a pressure washer or soap bubbles and focus the name around the image.
Related: How to create a logo for your business.
7. 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 Pressure Washing Business Names
Here is a list of existing pressure washing 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 they can be used.
Tips on how to check business name availability are after the list of names!
- A Plus Window Cleaning
- A Touch Of Love Pressure Wash
- A1 Orange Exterior Building Service
- AAA Saratoga Masonry Cleaners
- Adobe Powerwashing
- Advanced Power Wash
- Ageless Pressure Washing
- Akleen Spray
- American Pressure Wash
- Anytime Pressure Washing
- Aqua Pro Pressure Washing
- Atlanta Power Wash
- Award Window Cleaning Service
- Awesome’s Powerwash
- Beach & Beyond Window Cleaning
- Blue Coverall Pressure Washing
- Blue Sky Power Washing
- Blue Wave Pressure Washing
- Bran Knu Pressure Washing
- Bright Pressure Washing
- C & M Power Washing
- Camelot Pressure Washing
- Clean County Powerwashing Crew
- Clean Kings LLC
- Clean Power Rangers
- Clear View Pressure washing
- Clearview Pressure Cleaning
- Colorado’s Best Pressure Washing Service
- Dirt Busters
- Driven Water Pressure Washing
- First Choice Power Washing
- Flood’s Cleaning Service
- Full Blast Pressure Washing Services
- Full Force Pressure Washing
- Gene’s Pressure Washing Service
- Georgia Power Washing
- Golden State Pressure Washing
- Green Cleaners
- High Pressure
- High Tide Exterior Cleaning Services
- His & Hers Power Washing
- Hot Springs Pressure Washing
- Hurricane Power Washing
- Hydroblast
- Jet Stream Soft Wash
- KC Power Washing
- Keep It Kleen
- Knight’s Pressure Washing
- Lanier Pressure Washing & Deck
- Magic Clean Softwash
- Marco Pressure Washing
- Master Clean
- Midwest Pressure Washing
- Mike’s Powerwashing
- Min 2 Max Pressure Washing
- Montana’s Pressure Cleaning
- Moonlight Pressure Washing
- Naples H2o Pressure Washing
- Naples Pressure Cleaning Service
- Nautical Pressure Washing
- New Brite Pressure Washing
- New Look Powerwashing
- Next Level Pressure Washing
- No Pressure Pressure Cleaning
- North FL Power Washing
- Nutley Power Wash
- Off The Wall Pressure Washing
- One Stop Shop Pressure Washing
- Orlando Pressure Washing Co
- Paradise Pressure Cleaning
- Paragon Paver Cleaning
- Paramount Pressure Washing
- Patriot Power Washing
- Pauls Pressure Washing Plus
- Perfect Pressure
- Performance Pressure Washing
- Phoenix Pressure Washing
- Pinnacle Pro Wach
- Platinum Pressure Washing
- Porta Clean
- Power Clean
- Power House Pressure Washing
- Power Wash Express
- Power Washing Solutions
- Powerhouse Pressure Washing
- Powerwash Guy
- Powerwash Pros
- Powerwashin Pros
- Precise Hit Pressure Washing
- Precision Pressure Washing
- Preferred Pressure Washing Service
- Premier Power Washing
- Premier Pressure Clean
- Premier Softwash
- Pressure Cleaning By Steve
- Pressure Cleaning Man
- Pressure Kleen Co
- Pressure Kyngz
- Pressure Me Clean Service
- Pressure Wash Elite
- Pressure Wash It!
- Pressure Wash King
- Pressure Washing Express
- Pressure Works
- Pressure’s On Cleaning Service
- Primetime Cleaners
- Pristine Pro Washers
- Pro Image Pressure Washing
- Professional Mobile Wash
- Prospect Pressure Cleaning
- Pro-Tec Powerwash Supreme
- Pull Rite Up Pressure Cleaning
- Pure Pressure Washing
- Quality Pressure Cleaning
- Quickwash Pressure Washing
- Qwik Roof Cleaners
- Rainbow Hydra-Blast
- Rainmaker Pressure Washing
- Reel Life Pressure Washing
- Reliable Pressure Washing
- Right Touch Pressure Washing
- Riley’s Housewashing
- Rinseco Pressure Washing
- Rise N Shine Power Washing
- Roadrunner Power Washing
- Safewash Exterior Cleaning
- Sanford’s Mad Washers
- Simply Clean Pressure Washing
- Skeeter’s Pressure Washing
- Snapdragon Pressure Cleaning
- Spencer Pressure Washing Co
- Spot Off Pressure Cleaning
- Spring Clean Power Washing
- Strongarm Power Washing
- Suncoast Power Washing
- Sunset Power Washing
- Sunshine Power Wash
- Super Soaker Power Washing Co
- Superior Exterior Cleaning
- Superior Softwash
- Supreme Pressure Washing
- Sure Spray Pressure Washing
- Surfside Pressure Washing
- Swamp Dog Pressure Washing
- The Wash Doctors
- Titanium Pressure Cleaning
- Top Dog Pressure Cleaning
- Top Notch Pressure
- Total Home Enhancers
- Total Power Washing
- Total Pressure Cleaning Service
- Total Pressure Washing
- Transamerica Pressure Washing
- Triple I Power Washing
- True Blue Pressure Washing
- True Clean Pressure Washing
- True Pressure Washing
- Ultimate Pressure Cleaning
- Ultra Power Wash
- United Mobile Power Washing Company
- Universal Power Washing Service
- Us Veterans Pressure Washing
- Walking On Water Pressure Wash
- Wiseguys Pro-Wash
- Wipeout Power Washing
- Xtreme Pressure Washing & Cleaning
Is Your Pressure Washing 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 neessary 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 more 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 ideas to name your pressure washing 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 pressure washing business name!
