ChatGPT Prompts for Business Names: 12 Naming Prompts

ChatGPT prompts for business names work best when you feed them your real positioning and then screen every idea hard. The 12 prompts below take you from a naming brief to a scored shortlist and a check list. Fill in each [variable], and remember that ChatGPT cannot tell you whether a name is available or trademark clear.

This is not legal advice. Run the checks yourself and talk to a trademark attorney before you file or print anything.

Write the brief

1. Naming brief

Write a five line naming brief for [business], serving [customers], with a [three word personality], that says what the name must do.

2. Avoid list

Help me list words, sounds, and ideas my name should avoid for [business], including overused words in my industry.

Generate ideas

3. Names by style

Give me 15 names for [business] in five styles: descriptive, compound, metaphor, invented, and place based, three each, with a short meaning.

4. Invented words

Make 10 invented names for [business] that are easy to spell after hearing them once, and explain the roots of each.

5. Place feel without lock-in

Suggest names with a local feel for [city] that would still work if I expand to [future area].

6. Names that say the benefit

Give me eight names that hint at [main benefit] without using [words to avoid].

Screen the list

7. First screen

Screen these names [list] against my avoid list [paste], spelling after one hearing, and closeness to well-known brands. Say why each dropped name failed.

8. Scorecard

Score these five names [list] from 1 to 5 on personality fit, clarity, memorability, and room to grow, with totals.

9. Say it out loud

For each name [list], show how people might mishear or misspell it on a phone call.

Check before you commit

10. Lookup list

List the exact .com domains and social handles I should look up for these names [list] on [platforms]. Do not tell me if they are taken.

11. Screening checklist

Write a checklist for clearing [name] in [state or country]: trademark search, business registry, domain, handles, and meaning in [languages].

12. Customer test

Write a short message asking five customers to pick between [name A] and [name B] and say which one they would remember.

Use the full naming prompt

The flagship Business Name Prompt: Shortlist and Screening Checklist runs every step from one brief, drops weak names with reasons, and ends with a trademark, registry, domain, and handle check list. Its example names a mobile bike repair service in Portland, Oregon that may expand to Vancouver, Washington.

Related prompts

Before naming, sharpen your positioning with the ChatGPT prompts for brand strategy or the brand positioning and messaging prompt. Once a name passes, brief a designer with the brand identity design brief generator or try the Ideogram logo mark prompt.

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