Tips & Ideas For Naming A Carpet Cleaning Business

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Last Updated on October 6, 2020

There are more than 32,000 carpet cleaning businesses in the United States alone. So, it’s no surprise, settling on a unique name when starting a carpet cleaning business feels impossible.

Picking the right name gives potential customers an idea about your carpet cleaning business’s services, creates a good first impression, and helps you stand out from the competition.

Are all the good carpet cleaning business names already taken? How do you come up with something fresh? And what about the availability of certain names?

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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 a catchy name and how to make sure your favorite choices are available across the board.

Let’s dive in!

Tips for Choosing the Perfect Carpet Cleaning Business Name

If you’re struggling to choose a company name for your carpet cleaning company, 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 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 many types of services a carpet cleaning business can offer, so it’s essential to consider the services you plan to offer. Maybe you want to focus on residential customers, or maybe you want to focus on commercial accounts. Regardless, you can 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 carpet cleaning 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, Hear, or Spell

Despite the technological advances of 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 carpet cleaning business 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 with choosing a few of your favorite words from your master brainstorm list.

You can then Google “words that start with C” to come up with names like Crazy Clean Carpets or Scrub & Steam 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 brainstorm 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 carpet cleaning business could use a vacuum or soap bubbles and focus the name around the image

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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.

8. See What Names Other Carpet Cleaning Businesses are Using

Here is a list of existing carpet cleaning business names that may help give you some inspiration. 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!

1 Call Cleaning & Restoration
1st Royal Carpet Cleaning
A & R Carpet Solutions
A S A P Carpet Cleaning 4 Less
A1 Steamer Carpet Cleaning
Acme Carpet & Tile Care
Action Steam Cleaning
Advanced Cleaning & Restoration
Affordable Carpet Cleaning
All American Carpet Cleaning
All Carpet Care
All Star Carpet Care
Alligator Carpet Cleaning
Always Green Carpet Cleaning
American Carpet Cleaning
Anderson Brothers Cleaning Service
Area Rug Cleaning
Assurance Carpet Cleaning
Awesome Carpet Care
Blue Bird Carpet Care
Broward Steam Team
Budget Carpet Cleaning
Bullseye Carpet & Upholstery
California Carpet Cleaning
Carpet Care & Beyond
Carpet Clean Indy
Carpet Doctors
Carpet Geeks
Carpet Pro Of Central FL
Charley’s Magic Carpet Cleaning
Cinderella’s Carpet Care
Clean Rite Carpet & Upholstery Cleaning
Clean Up Carpet & Tile Care
Cleanup Man
Coastal Breeze Carpet Care
Complete Carpet Care
D & C Hutch Steam Team
Dave’s Amazing Carpet Cleaning
Deep Clean Continental
Deep Steam Corp
Dirty Dog Carpet Cleaning
Dream Clean Carpet Cleaning
Echo Carpet Service
Ecosteam Carpet Care
Elite Carpet Cleaning
Extreme Carpet Care
E-Z Steemer
F & S Carpet Cleaning
Family Carpet Care
First Class Carpet Care
Freeman Carpet & Tile Cleaners
Fresh & Clean Carpet Cleaning
Fresh Start Carpet Cleaning
Go Green Carpet Cleaning
Gold Star Carpet Cleaning
Happy Star Carpet Cleaning
Heaven Scent Carpet & Cleaning
Heaven’s Best Carpet Cleaning
High Desert Carpet & Tile Care
Holy Carpet Cleaning
Hummingbird Carpet Cleaning
Indy Cleaning Solutions
Infinity Rug Care
Integrity Carpet & Restoration
Knockout Carpet Cleaning
Laguna’s Carpet Cleaner
Legacy Carpet Cleaning
Magic Touch Rug Cleaning
Majestic Carpet Cleaning
Matrix Carpet Cleaning
Max Steam
Mike’s Carpet Cleaning
Monarch Rug Cleaners
Mountain Carpet Care
Mr. Captain Clean
Mr. Carpet Cleaning
Neat Freak Carpet Solutions
Norman’s Dry Carpet Cleaning
One Minute Dry Time Carpet
Pacific Green Carpet Cleaning
Pacific Shores Carpet Care
Paradise Carpet Cleaning
Perfection Carpet Cleaning
Pet Friendly Carpet Cleaning
Precise Carpet & Tile Cleaning
Premier Carpet Cleaning
Pro Steam Carpet Care
Professional Carpet Cleaning
Pure Solutions Carpet
Pure Steam Carpet Cleaning
Quality Carpet Care
Quality Express Carpet Care
Quality Queen Carpet Cleaning
Quickdry Pro Carpet Cleaning
Reliable Carpet Care
Renew & Rejuv
Renew Steam Cleaning
Restoration Carpet Cleaning
Restoration Rugs
Royal Steamer Carpet
Royalty Kleen Carpet Cleaning
Rug Cleaning Co
Safe Dry Carpet Cleaning
San Diego Carpet Cleaning
Simply Floored
Simply Steam Carpet Cleaning
Smart Carpet Cleaning
Softsteem Carpet Cleaning
Spring Carpet Cleaning
Stain Master Steamers
Stain Out Carpet Care
Steam Brite Pro Carpet Care
Steam Clean Carpet Cleaning
Steam Clean Florida
Steam Clean Solutions
Steam King Carpet Care
Steam Masters Carpet & Tile
Steam N Fresh Carpet Cleaning
Steam Pro Carpet Cleaning
Steamer’s Of Tampa Bay
Steve Mcclean Carpet Steam
Suds Up Carpet Cleaning
Super Steamers Carpet Cleaners
Surfside Carpet & Upholstery
Swift-Dry Carpet Care
Team Carpet Cleaning
Team Steam
Top Notch Carpet Cleaning Po
Tru-Clean Carpet & Tile Care
Ultimate Carpet Cleaning
Upright Cleaning & Restoration
Wall-2-Wall Carpet Cleaning
Way2clean Carpet Cleaning
White Streak Carpet Cleaning
Wolverine Hydrovac
Xtreme Carpet & Tile Cleaning
Xtreme Carpet Clean

Checking the Availability of Your Top Considerations

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 vital 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.

Trademark Search

Trademarks are the most critical, so we’ll start here.

If a name or phrase is trademarked, you’re not allowed to use it in a similar capacity. So, run a trademark search for each business name you’re considering and cross off those that aren’t available.

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Local Search

Just because there isn’t a federal trademark on a name doesn’t mean the name you want is available. That’s because there is a trademark known as a common law trademark. A common law trademark isn’t filed anywhere but provides someone who uses that name in commerce some limited rights in their geographical area to use the name. It can be hard to define how far geographically these rights extend as each industry is different. Still, at a basic level, someone can’t open a business and name it the same or similar name as a competing business in town. If you think the name could potentially create confusion with customers, it is usually best to just find another one to use to avoid potential legal issues down the road.

To do a local search, open up the phone book (if you still have one), and do a Google search to see if there are any local competitors with a similar business name to the one you want to use.

Cross off any similar names from your list and take the rest and let’s keep checking.

State Entity Search (If Applicable)

If you plan to register your carpet cleaning service as a corporation or LLC, you must register with a unique business name. Each state requires every corporation or LLC to register a unique name for their entity. This doesn’t necessarily protect your name from anyone else using it, but nobody can register a corporation or LLC under the same name in your state.

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If you find the name is in use, cross it off your list and move on.

Domain Name Availability

Website addresses aren’t as critical as the first three searches, but it’s still worth doing. Typically, you want your domain name to be “yourbusinessname.com” without any numbers, dashes, etc.

It’s easiest for customers to remember, but these are hard to come by.

However, you can explore other configurations and extensions if your preferred domain name isn’t available. Just remember your customers may have a more difficult time finding you online.

You can start with . Type in the domain name you want to use to see if it’s available. The tool also returns other possibilities you may want to consider.

Social Media Profiles

Next, especially if you are stuck between a couple of names, check and see if anyone is already using your potential carpet cleaning business names on social media such as Facebook or Pinterest. Consider which platforms you plan to use and start with those.

Keep in mind you may have to shorten your company name for some platforms. Twitter only allows 15 characters, for example.

Start with your preferred platforms and do a quick search for your name. If nothing pops up, that likely means no one is using it, and you’re good to go.

Example: Someone is using startingyourbusiness on Instagram, so I would have to choose a different handle, making it more difficult for customers to find me.

Vanity Phone Number

An inexpensive way to make your business stick out and is easier for your customers to remember is to get a custom phone number with your business name. These are affordable, too, with pricing typically around $10-$25 per month, depending on the level of features you need.

Companies like and let you type in words to quickly see if a local or toll-free number is available.

Hopefully, you now have some ideas to name your carpet cleaning business. Once you have this list narrowed down 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 carpet cleaning business name!