Tips & Ideas For Naming A Power Washing Business

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Last Updated on October 17, 2020

Considering there are more than 108,000 pressure washing businesses in the United States alone, it’s no surprise settling on a unique name when starting a new power washing 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 the 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.

Let’s dive in!

Tips for Choosing the Perfect 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 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, 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 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 with choosing a few of your favorite words from your master brainstorm 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 brainstorm 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.

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.

8. Look at the Names of Other Power Washing Companies

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 it 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
Akleen Spray
American Pressure Wash
Atlanta Power Wash
Award Window Cleaning Service
Awesome’s Powerwash
Beach & Beyond Window Cleaning
Blue Coverall Pressure Washing
Bran Knu Pressure Washing
Bright Pressure Washing
C & M Power Washing
Camelot Pressure Washing
Clean County Powerwashing Crew
Clearview Pressure Cleaning
Dirt Busters
First Choice Power Washing
Flood’s Cleaning Service
Gene’s Pressure Washing Service
Georgia Power Washing
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
Magicclean Softwash
Marco Pressure Washing
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
Platinum Pressure Washing
Porta Clean
Power Clean
Power House Pressure Washing
Power Wash Express
Power Washing Solutions
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’s On Cleaning Service
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 Power 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
Titanium Pressure Cleaning
Top Dog Pressure Cleaning-Slng
Total Power Washing
Total Pressure Cleaning Service
Transamerica Pressure Washing
Triple I Power Washing
True Blue Pressure Washing
True Clean Pressure Washing
True Pressure Washing
Ultimate Pressure Cleaning
United Mobile Power Washing Company
Universal Power Washing Service
Us Veterans Pressure Washing
Walking On Water Pressure Wash
Wieseguys Pro-Wash
Wipeout Power Washing
Xtreme Pressure Washing & Cleaning

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.

Learn more about how to do a trademark search before choosing a business name

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 pressure washing business 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.

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 pressure washing business names on social media. 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. How much more of a memorable name would you have if your phone number was 888-792-WASH? Vanity phones are pretty 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 keywords to quickly see if a local or toll-free number is available.

Hopefully, you now have some ideas to name your pressure washing 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 pressure washing business name!