Name Styles and Types

In starting your own business, giving your company the appropriate name is way more critical than finding a name for your child.  It involves a lot of elements or consideration, time, and effort to come up with one.  And it even goes beyond catchy names itself.  It has to ensure a good foundation for the business to make it last over time.

These days when the competition among companies in all industries has become fiercer, it is very important to make your company stand-out and pull the attention of the consumers and maintain them within the expanse of your business sphere.
To come up with a good and sound company name, why don’t we check out the different categories in the styles and types of naming many successful companies have opted for?

▪    Abbreviation refers to names that are a reduced form of longer names.

▫    Comcast

▫    Linksys

▫    Bisquick

▪    Acronym are names that are form from the initials of words.

▫    USAA

▫    UPS

 
▫    AT&T

 







▪    Alliteration refers to the use of similar consonants to come up with a creative name.
 
▫    Planters Peanuts

 


▫    Dunkin’ Donuts

▪    Appropriation incorporates an already existing word or phrases to the company name.
 
▫    Caterpillar

 

▫    Bloody Mary’s

 ▪    Combination refers to the combination of two words into one.
 
▫    Facebook

 ▫    Firefox
 

 ▪    Descriptive are names that describe the company’s nature or the products and services they offer.
 
▫    Bath & Body Works

▫    Toys R Us

▪    Evocative are names that stimulate graphic images that insinuate the company’s nature and its products and services.
▫    Amazon

 ▫    Apple

▪    Foreign words incorporation of foreign or non-English words, usually the names are altered in spelling.
 
▫    Volare

▫    Samurai

 ▪    Founders refer to names that are created after the company’s founder/s.
 
▫    Walt Disney

▫    Hilton

▪    Humor are names that incorporate funny words for more memorable characteristic.
▫    Cracker Jack

▫    Bullfrog
 

▪    Merged refer to names created from to merged companies.
▫    Rolls-Royce

▫    ExxonMobil 

 

▪    Mythological are names that make use of mythological characters, events, ideas, or items.
 
▫    Nike

▫    Oracle
 

▪    Onomatopoeia  are names that use sound that are associated with the company’s function.
▫    Kookooroo

 

▫    Meow Mix 

▪    Oxymoron is a styling that use contradictory words.
 
▫    Intimate strangers

▪    Statements are names that use for than two words and often come in phrases or sentences.
 
▫    Lettuce Entertain You Restaurants

▫    People are People

▫    Seven for All Mankind
 

You have almost countless options of how you should name your company. To free yourself of the burden of all these considerations in naming your company, you may go for company name generators that are easily found online.