Tools · Business name generator · 2026
Business name generator with instant trademark check.
Ten candidate names in one click. Paste any of them into the checker below and get a real screening — US, EU, and UK trademark registers, plus .com, .io, .co, and social handles — in under three seconds. Free for the first five, no signup.
Step 1 · Generate a shortlist
Prefix + suffix combinator · 20 seeds · client-side only
Step 3 · Screen the candidate
Why most business name generators leave the hard part out.
The classic naming loop looks fun until you hit the wall. A generator gives you ten names. You fall for one. You buy the domain, print a card, and launch a landing page. Sixteen weeks later a USPTO Office Action arrives, or a cease-and-desist from a company you'd never heard of, and the whole brand goes in the bin.
The gap is the screening step. A generator that stops at “here are ten names” is doing the low-value half of the work. The high-value half is checking whether any of them can survive the two things that kill launched brands: trademark collisions and unavailable domains. Our screening methodology runs both, plus cultural and pronunciation checks, on every candidate you paste in.
The combinator above is a starter — twenty prefixes, sixteen suffixes, deterministic locally in your browser. It's useful when the blank page is the blocker. What makes the tool actually different is the second step: every candidate goes through a live check against USPTO, EUIPO, UKIPO trademark data, RDAP domain lookups, and a curated handle probe across the platforms that matter for a modern brand.
The screening returns one of three signals: PROCEED (clear across the axes we probe), PROCEED_STRATEGIC (workable with specific action items — an alternative class, a hedged domain), or ABANDON (a hard blocker we found). Each result is Ed25519 signed, which means an attorney can verify the receipt independently at etymolt.com/verify without trusting our server. Paste the receipt into the verifier and it checks the signature in your browser, no key required.
If a generator gives you ten names and the screening finds them all blocked, that's good news, not bad news — you spent twelve seconds discovering what would have taken twelve weeks of launch work. Iterate, add a seed word closer to your industry, generate again.
Where the moat is.
The screening pipeline behind this generator was trained on 177,880 real Trademark Trial and Appeal Board opposition outcomes. The opposition-risk model — the one that answers “if this name goes to opposition, who wins?” — measured at AUC 0.6315 on that corpus. That's not a marketing number; it's what a data scientist would want to know before trusting the output. Details are on the trust page.
The signature primitive is the other half. Every candidate you check returns a signed receipt; the signature binds the name, the signal, the score, and the moment it was issued. Nothing downstream can tamper with the result and hand you a modified copy — the verifier at /verify catches that. If you're a developer, the docs walk through the REST call and the MCP tool.
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Frequently asked.
- Is the business name generator free?
- The generator itself is free with no signup. The trademark and domain screening that follows each candidate is free for the first five checks per IP address; after that you can create an account for a free tier or pay $0.25 per check.
- Does the generator check if the business name is taken?
- The generator suggests candidates. The check widget below it runs the real screening: US trademark register, EU trademark register (EUIPO), UK register, the .com/.io/.co/.app domains, and social handles. You paste any candidate and get a screening signal in under three seconds.
- Can I use this to name a startup, LLC, or product?
- Yes — the screening pipeline is the same regardless of whether the name is for a startup, an LLC, a product line, or a project. The one thing worth knowing: trademark risk is scoped by industry class. Add a one-line description of what you're building when you check a name and the screening scopes to the right industry class.
- How is this different from other business name generators?
- Most name generators stop at 'here are ten names.' The next step — is any of them safe to actually use — is left to you. We shrink that gap: every candidate you check runs against the live US, EU, and UK trademark registers plus domain and handle probes. Each result is signed so an attorney can verify it independently before you commit.
- What kinds of names should I avoid?
- Descriptive names ('BestCoffee', 'FastCloud') often fail trademark because they can't be exclusively owned. Names that look clear on Google but sit next to a registered mark in the same industry class are the second-biggest trap. The screening surfaces both patterns — the check panel lists the specific findings so you can iterate.
- How accurate is the screening?
- The screening pipeline uses the current USPTO, EUIPO, and UKIPO indexes with per-source freshness metadata (typically under 24 hours). The opposition-risk model was measured at AUC 0.6315 on 177,880 real TTAB opposition outcomes — a defensible number, not a marketing number. Etymolt is a pre-launch screening signal, not a legal opinion; a registered trademark attorney is still the right decision-maker for a launch.
Verify any result
See the signature?
Paste any receipt at etymolt.com/verify to verify it yourself, cryptographically, in your browser. No trust required.
Open the verifierEtymolt is a pre-launch screening signal, not a legal opinion. Signals returned by the trademark, domain, and cultural checks are computational outputs derived from public registry data and proprietary heuristics. They are not a substitute for a clearance opinion by a licensed trademark attorney. For any launch with material legal exposure a registered trademark attorney is the correct decision-maker; Etymolt makes the attorney's job cheaper by surfacing the obvious failures first. Full terms: etymolt.com/terms.
Screening methodology v2.4 · TTAB AUC 0.6315 (n=177,880) · CC BY 4.0