There are more than 38,000 flower shops in the United States alone. So, it’s no surprise settling on a unique name when starting a flower shop feels impossible.
Picking the right name gives potential customers an idea about the services your business provides, creates a good first impression, and helps you stand out from the competition.
Are all the good flower shop names already taken? How do you come up with something fresh? And what 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 Flower Shop Name
If you’re struggling to choose a company name for your flower shop, one of the best things to do is to just 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 Products and Services You Plan to Offer
There are countless types of services a flower shop can focus on, so it’s worth considering the services you plan to offer for your name. Maybe you want to focus on weddings or maybe flowers for the holidays. Perhaps you’re considering offering other specialty products or 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. Names of Flowers
If you have a particular flower you love, you can integrate the flower name into your shop. Some examples could include Pattie’s Posies, Beautiful Roses, or Crazy Daisy’s Flowers.
3. Location-Specific Terms
Most flower 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.
4. 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 flower shop 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.
5. 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 Beautiful Blooms or F for Fantastic Flowers 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.
6. 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.
7. 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 flower shop could use an image of a flower or a bouquet and focus the name around the image.
Related: How to create a logo for your business.
8. 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 plans also 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 Flower Shop Names
Here is a list of existing flower shop names that may help give you some creative flower shop 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!
- 1315 South Flower
- 24 Hour Flowers
- 3 Princess Flowers & Gifts
- 411 Flower
- 6 Roses Corp
- 99 Roses
- Abigail’s Scents & Flowers
- Accents By Sage
- Ace Flowers
- Acme Floral
- Active Bloom
- All Purpose Flower
- All That Blooms
- Always Flowers
- Aqua Floral Design
- Bakersfield Flower Shop
- Bay Flower Remedies
- Bearded Bouquet
- Beautiful Roses
- Bee’s Flower Shop
- Bella Florals
- Bloom
- Bloom & Petal
- Bloom Babes
- Bloom Couture
- Bloom Florist
- Bloom It
- Bloom Maven
- Bloom Microgreens
- Bloom Nation
- Bloom USA
- Blooms & Bears Florist
- Blooms In The City
- Blossom & Bloom Corp
- Blushing Petals Flowers
- Bountiful Bouquets By Cindy
- Bouquet In A Box
- Bouquets By Bonnie
- Branches & Blooms By Beth
- Bring Her Flowers
- Buds & Blooms
- Busy Bee Floral
- Casablanca Flowershop
- Ceremony Of Roses
- Chocolates & Posies
- Colors In Bloom
- Cottage Flower Shop
- Cristina’s Precious Flowers
- Crystal Flower
- Cut Flowers
- Dabble In Flower
- Daisy Hills Floral Design
- Deluxe Flowers
- Desert Flower Collective
- Desert Rose Florals
- Designs By Maurice
- Divine Creations
- Dragon Flower
- Dream Roses
- Dry Creek Flowers
- Edge Flowers
- Elegant Flowers
- Emerald & Ivy Floral
- Emerald Flower Collective
- Enchanted Design Floral
- Enchanted Florist
- Everybody Loves Flowers
- Exotic Flowers
- Express Bouquet Florist
- Express Flowers
- Expressive Rose
- Fabulous Flowers
- Fairytale Flowers
- Faithful Flowers
- Fancy Flowers
- Fannie’s Flowers & Gifts
- Fantasy Flower
- Farm Fresh Flowers & Fruit
- Farmer’s Flower
- Faux Bouquets
- Fifth & Flower Corp
- Flora & Fronds
- Flora Flower Cart
- Floral Filosophy
- Floral Integrity
- Floral Memories
- Florist Arden Park
- Flower & Thorn
- Flower Bomb Collective
- Flower Boutique
- Flower Box
- Flower Boy
- Flower Bros
- Flower City
- Flower Connection
- Flower Creations
- Flower Fairy
- Flower Firm
- Flower Girl
- Flower Mama
- Flower Market
- Flower Market Shop
- Flower Pot
- Flower Power
- Flower Refinery
- Flower Rush
- Flower Shop
- Flower Sisters
- Flower Studio
- Flowers & Gifts
- Flowers Bazaar
- Flowers By Andrea
- Flowers By The Sea
- Flowers Etc
- Flowers Fauxever
- Flowers For A Cause
- Flowers For Mothers Day
- Flowers R Us
- Forbidden Flower
- Forget Me Nots Fine Floral
- Frannie’s Iris Garden
- Fressia Flower Shop
- Fringe Flower Co
- Full Bloom
- Garden Of Blooms
- Gateway Flowers
- Gem Flowers
- Glowing Flowers
- Golden Bouquet
- Golden Flowers Express
- Golden State Bloom
- Great Growth Flowers
- Happy Petals
- Happy’s Humboldt Flowers
- Haystack Floral
- Hello Flowers
- High Mountain Greenery
- His Garden Flowers
- Honey’s Flower Shop
- House Of Roses
- Hundred Flowers
- Inspirations Floral
- Interior Florals
- International House Of Flowers
- Isabelle’s Flower Boutique
- Ivette’s Beautiful Flowers
- Jan’s On The Corner
- Jennifer’s Flower
- Judy’s Blossom Shop
- King’s Flowers
- Laughin’ Gal Floral
- Le Daisy Flowers
- Leaf & Flower
- Let’s Talk Petals
- Liberty Florist
- Liliflorals
- Lion’s Bouquet
- Little Bloom
- Little Flower Productions
- Lotus 2 Bloom
- Lotus Flower Enterprise
- Love & Bloom
- Love & Grace Floral Design
- Love It Flowers
- Lush Flowers
- Luv My Flowers
- Mad Flower Boutique
- Magnolia Bloom
- Mariana’s Flower Basket
- Marose Flowers & Chocolates
- Marshall’s Florist & Fine Gifts
- Mirabel Floral Design
- Miss Scarlett’s Flowers
- My Angel’s Flowers & More
- My Flower Market
- Nashville Florist
- Native Poppy
- Nature Bloom Harvest
- Neighborhood Florist
- Odd Petals
- Only Roses
- Pinkz Floral Design
- Rainbow Florist
- Rodeo Roses
- Rosey Posey Flowers & Gifts
- Rustic Rose
- Same Day Flowers
- Secret Garden Flowers & Gifts
- Southern Stems
- Sweetheart Florist
- Tangled Tiger Florist
- The Prett Flower Shop
- Thistle & Vine
- Tilted Tulip Shop
- Timeless Flowers
- Whimsical Flowers
Is Your Flower Shop 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 for your flower shop 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 flower shop name!
