# what should I call my company? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 20, 2003, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-call-my-company/169866 "2003-04-20T16:39:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Iteki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/eada6e/32.png) [@Iteki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iteki)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2003, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-call-my-company/169866/1 "2003-04-20T16:39:01Z")
I am considering registering my own company for some of the freelance work I do. Since the freelance I do ranges from graphics to web-dev to translations to general-computer-fixerupping etc I would like to go with something fairly non-descript. I quite like the trend of “random” names for companys, for example I saw a company named “Orange You Glad” the other day, and another called “A Half Bee”. Suggestions along these lines would fun. I was half thinking “Bubblewrap” but I wasn’t really sold on it. Help me come up with some fun or clever suggestions 🙂 If there is a meaning behind the names, please explain it! ---
**Author:** ![Dogface](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@Dogface](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogface)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2003, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-call-my-company/169866/2 "2003-04-20T17:41:54Z")
Geeks Don’t Sleep ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2003, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-call-my-company/169866/3 "2003-04-20T17:50:51Z")
How about _ **Modnar Consulting** _ (Random spelled backwards). _ **Kitchen Sink Consulting** _ (As in, instead of “everything _but_ the kitchen sink”, you throw in the kitchen sink, as well). _ **Dubl Duty Consulting** _ (since you’re from Dublin _and_ the “double meaning” of offering more than one type of service). _ **Spider Byte Consulting** _ (should be obvious, no? – I think this is my favorite. Or maybe the one above – I can’t decide). ---
**Author:** ![Gregor\_Samsa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@Gregor\_Samsa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gregor_Samsa)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2003, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-call-my-company/169866/4 "2003-04-20T21:59:23Z")
When I had to set up a company some years back, I seriously considered “Vandalay Industries.” At that time, the name had not been taken in Canada. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2003, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-call-my-company/169866/5 "2003-04-20T22:21:10Z")
Jack of All Data Custom Design and More All Your Base Belong To Us :rolleyes: Morlock Consultants (reference to H.G. Wells’ “The Time Machine”) Mad Dogs and Irishmen (riffing on Noel Coward; there is/was a NYC ad agency called “Mad Dogs and Englishmen,” so there might be a legal issue with this one.) Personally, I love “Geeks Don’t Sleep”. Question: how many of the idiomatic (or idiotic?) English-language humorous suggestions would be understood by most Swedes? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-call-my-company/169866/6 "2003-04-21T02:26:55Z")
WereWare. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-call-my-company/169866/7 "2003-04-21T02:56:44Z")
Call it **Iteki**. Sounds very high-techy. Happy ---
**Author:** ![rumraisin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8e7dd6/32.png) [@rumraisin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rumraisin)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-call-my-company/169866/8 "2003-04-21T04:05:00Z")
Smock design. ---
**Author:** ![Anonymous\_Coward](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/94ad74/32.png) [@Anonymous\_Coward](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anonymous_Coward)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-call-my-company/169866/9 "2003-04-21T14:31:55Z")
Compuglobalhypermeganet 2Leet Microsoft (that one may be taken) Coldfire 🙂 Classical Computing Aardvark Consulting (get your name at the top of the yellow pages) Ministry of Information ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-call-my-company/169866/10 "2003-04-21T14:42:57Z")
Halfbit ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-call-my-company/169866/11 "2003-04-21T14:43:33Z")
Well, if I ever started an IT company I always wanted to name it _InSan I.T._ Feel free to use it. ---
**Author:** ![Spurious\_George](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/94ad74/32.png) [@Spurious\_George](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spurious_George)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-call-my-company/169866/12 "2003-04-21T19:14:39Z")
Utica Drop-Forge & Jewel Company. ---
**Author:** ![Nanoda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Nanoda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nanoda)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2003, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-call-my-company/169866/13 "2003-04-22T03:19:22Z")
Oh, Um… the… best… dang computer company in town! \Whooo!\ 😃 Perhaps look through the imdb for old B-movie titles, 'cause that’s (no, really!) what some of these remind me of. Or… no! My brother and his friends always come up with the wierdest names for their role-playing characters. Go find a D&D group. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Toddly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/22d042/32.png) [@Toddly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toddly)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2003, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-call-my-company/169866/14 "2003-04-22T04:05:25Z")
About the only thing that comes to my brain is “I Can Do I.T.” ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2003, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-call-my-company/169866/15 "2003-04-22T15:17:53Z")
I’m cracking up at the “Half a Bee” one. Genius! Whatever you name your company, make sure your website address is short and easy to remember. When my brother and some friends started a consulting business the name was something like: threeguyswhoallgottogetheranddecided [togointobusinessasconsultants.com](http://togointobusinessasconsultants.com) or some hilarious thing that didn’t even fit in the address bar. “Getting a lot of hits on that, are ya?” Ha! (Space added so as not to screw up the thread.) ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2003, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-call-my-company/169866/16 "2003-04-22T15:21:39Z")
The Daystrom Institute For PCs. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2003, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-call-my-company/169866/17 "2003-04-22T15:26:36Z")
Or _The Maria Futura Company_–think “Metropolis” by Fritz Lang. ---
**Author:** ![MSU\_1978](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac8455/32.png) [@MSU\_1978](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MSU_1978)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2003, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-call-my-company/169866/18 "2003-04-22T15:49:19Z")
From Dilbert- choose a random astronomi cal term and a random scientific term- How about Uranus Hertz? ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2003, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-call-my-company/169866/19 "2003-04-22T18:35:10Z")
Enron ---
**Author:** ![Benanuel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f14d63/32.png) [@Benanuel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Benanuel)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2003, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-call-my-company/169866/20 "2003-04-23T19:12:58Z")
Oooh, we went through this (again) last year. I was pushing for _Milwaukee Orange Grower’s Cooperative_ , but no luck. ☹ We’re IT consultants, and my partner didn’t think it was funny. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-call-my-company/169866.md?page=2)