Business name generator · United Kingdom
A name generator that knows where you are.
Most name generators are built somewhere else, check the .com and stop. If you are naming a business in the UK you need the .co.uk answered too, you need the price in pounds, and you need to know which of your candidates Companies House is going to have an opinion about. Five names free, no card, no sign-up.
What the UK changes
A name that is free in America and gone here is not a shortlist. It is a morning wasted.
Four things that are different
.co.uk beside .com
The free run checks the .com. On the full shortlist you tick the extensions that matter, and .co.uk sits at the top of that list because for most UK businesses it is the one that actually gets typed. Every answer comes from the registry as the names arrive — available, registered, or listed on the aftermarket at a price.
Priced in pounds, VAT included
£39 is £39. Prices here are VAT-inclusive by decision rather than by oversight, so the figure on the pricing page is the figure at checkout — no conversion, no twenty per cent appearing at the last screen.
Three registers, not one
A UK name has to survive Companies House, the trade mark register at the IPO, and the domain registry. They are separate checks with separate answers, and only the last of the three is one a generator can settle. What this does is stop you falling in love with a name whose domain is already gone.
Built for the market you are in
The brief asks which competitors you will appear beside. Name a UK category and the candidates are constructed to stand apart from the conventions of that category here — not from whatever the equivalent American sector happens to be doing.
Be clear about this
What it will not
do for you.
It does not clear a name. Whether Companies House will accept it, and whether it collides with a registered trade mark, are checks against registers this does not query and would be guessing about if it claimed to. Any generator that shows you a green tick labelled “available to register as a company” has inferred it, and an inferred answer on a question with legal consequences is worse than no answer.
What you get is a shortlist worth taking to those checks: candidates you can defend, with the one availability question a registry can actually answer already answered.
How the Companies House rules workSeven questions.
Five names free.
The brief takes about three minutes and the free five come back in about one, each with the strategy behind it, who it lands with, an honest note on where it might cost you, and the domain checked at the registry.
Begin the brief