There are more than 17,000 laundromats in the United States alone. So, it’s no surprise settling on a unique name when starting a laundromat 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.
Are all the great names already taken? How do you come up with something fresh? And which names are available to use?
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 Laundromat Name
If you’re struggling to choose a company name for your laundromat, 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 laundromat can offer several types of services, so one strategy is to consider the services you plan to offer. Maybe you plan to be a self-service laundry facility or offer wash and fold services. Maybe you plan to operate as a dry cleaner. 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
Most laundromats are specific to a geographic service area. So, if that’s true for your business, consider adding a location-specific term to your laundry 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, Hear, 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 laundromat name is good, being too unique may not be so good.
Keep your laundromat business name as simple and easy to remember as possible so your target market 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 a catchy name.
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 Clean Central or S for Soap Suds 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 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 laundromat could use an image of a washing machine or a soap bubble and focus the brand 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 or the name of a family member. Doing so works well if the owner also plans to be the face behind the small 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.
Best List of Catchy Laundromat Business Names
Here is a list of existing laundromat 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 business name availability are after the list of names!
- 10th Ave Laundrymat
- 113 Millsboro Laundry
- 13th Street Coin Laundry
- 2 Boys Laundromat
- 24 Hour Laundry
- 24/7 Coin Laundry
- 24th St Laundromat
- A Beach Bubble Laundromat
- ABC Coin Laundries
- Ace Laundromat
- All Time Coin Laundry
- All Washed Up Laundromat
- Aloha Laundry
- AM/PM Laundromat
- Amazing Grace Laundrymat
- Amigo Laundromat
- Bay Wash Coin Laundry
- Bayport Laundromat
- Beachside Laundry
- Best Coin Laundry
- Best Laundromat
- Big Bundles Laundromat
- Big Laundromat
- Big Tub Wash Coin Laundry
- Blue Water Laundromat
- Bright Laundry Service
- Broadway Coin Laundry
- Bubble Brothers Laundromat
- Bubbles & Suds Laundry
- Bubble’s Dry Cleaners & Laundry
- Bubbles Laundromat
- Bubbles R Us
- Busy Bee Laundromat
- Busy Bubbles Laundromat
- Carolina Coin Laundry
- Cheyenne Coin Laundry
- City Suds Laundry
- Clean Dream
- Clean O Rama
- Clean Queen
- Clear & Clean Laundromat
- Clothes Pin Laundromat
- Clothesline Laundromat
- Coin Laundry At Valley Park
- Coin Op Laundromat
- Coin Wash N Dry
- Community Coin Wash
- Corner Giant Wash
- Corner Laundry Mat
- Country Clean Laundrymat
- Countryside Laundromat
- Courtesy Coin Laundry
- Crestwood Coin Laundry
- Crown Cleaners
- Crystal Clean Coin Laundry
- Dirty Bird Laundry
- Dodge Plaza Laundromat
- E Z Laundromat
- Eastern Ave Laundry Mat
- Express 7 Coin Laundry & Deli
- Express Cleaners
- Extremely Clean Laundromat
- E-Z Laundromat
- Family Coin-Op Laundry
- Fast Wash Coin Laundry
- Fiesta Coin Laundry
- Fit & Fold Laundry Mat
- Five Star Laundromat
- Fold & Go
- Fresh ‘n Clean Laundromat
- Fresh Suds
- Get A Load Of This
- Great American Laundromat
- Green Acres Laundry
- Green Clean Laundromats
- Happy Laundromat
- Hogwash
- Hollywood Coin Laundry
- Hollywood Laundromat
- I Mean Clean Laundry & Dry Cleaning
- Ideal Coin Laundry
- In & Out Laundromat
- Jackson Heights Laundromat
- Kate’s Coin Laundry
- Lakeside Express Laundromat
- Launderland Coin-Op Wash
- Laundromat Guys
- Laundry Basket
- Laundry Day
- Laundry Depot Of Burlington
- Laundry Express
- Laundry Heaven
- Laundry List
- Laundry On Madison
- Laundry Room
- Laundry Time
- Laundry Warehouse
- Liberty City Wash House
- Loads Of Clothes
- Lonely Sock Laundromat
- Lost Sock Laundromat
- Loving Wash & Fold Service
- Magic Bubbles Laundromat
- Magic Hamper Laundromat
- Master Laundromat
- Midtown Coin Laundry
- Miss Clean Laundry
- Modern Laundry
- Mr. Bubbles Coin Laundry
- My Laundromat
- My Mom’s Laundromat
- Neighborhood Laundromat
- Nice N’ Clean Laundromat
- North Broadway Laundromat
- Oasis Laundromat
- Oldtown Laundrymat
- One Stop Laundromat
- Palace Laundromat
- Payless Cleaners
- Peanut’s Coin Laundry Corp
- Peoples Coin Laundry
- Plaza Coin Laundry
- Prime Laundromat
- Queen Wash Express Laundry Center
- Quick Clean Laundromat
- Quick Wash Laundromat
- Rainbow Coin Laundromat
- River Side Wash & Dry
- Save Laundromat
- Soapbox Laundromat
- Social Spin Laundromat
- Southside Laundry
- Sparkle Brite Laundromat
- Sparkle Clean Laundromat
- Speed Queen Laundry
- Speedy Wash & Laundromat
- Spin City
- Spin Cycle
- Spin Doctor Laundromat
- Spintastic Laundromat
- Spin City Laundromat
- Spring Clean Laundry
- Star Coin Laundry
- Suds Laundromat
- Suds Laundry
- Suds Your Duds Coin Laundry
- Suds-R-Us Laundromat
- Sudzy’s Laundromat
- Summer Breeze Laundromat
- Sunshine Laundry
- Sunshine Pro Cleaner
- Super Bubbles Laundromat
- Super Coin Laundry
- Super Kleen Launderland
- Surfside Laundromat
- The Laundry Hamper
- Tiny Bubbles 24 Hour Laundromat
- Tiny Bubbles Coin Laundry
- Tons Of Bubbles Laundromat
- Top Laundromat
- Wash & Dry
- Wash & Go Coin Laundry
- Wash N Dry
- Wash Stop
- Wash Street
- Wash Tub
- Wash Wizard Plus
- Wash World
- Washboard
- Washed Up
- Wash-U-Doin Laundromat
- Wishy Wash Coin Laundry
- Wishy Washy Laundromat
- Your Neighborhood Laundromat
Is Your Laundromat 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 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 laundromat. 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 laundromat name!
