Finding a great catchy name for a café may be a complicated task, mostly because that it seems that all possible brands were already used. However, the careful analysis of the existing names shows that they can be divided into the separate groups and that there are certain principles of naming. This classification will make a choice a lot easier for new business owners as well as for experienced businessmen.
How to Name a Café?
All café names can be virtually divided into 4 main groups: names associated with coffee, brands associated with food (meals, spice, fruits, vegetables, etc), foreign names, and other original brands. Each of them has its own features and advantages that are carefully described below.
- Names associated with coffee. This group is quite diverse, because to create such brands, one can combine different words, from the most widespread keyword ‘coffee’ to coffee varieties. These names can include such words as ‘bean’, ‘espresso’, ‘mocha’, ‘Arabica’, etc. You can make any combinations, puns, and phrases and your name will still be thematic.
- Brands associated with food. Names of vegetables, fruits, meals berries, spice, and words related to cooking can be used in naming as well. They can be combined with the ‘classic’ keywords, for example ‘cafe’ or ‘eatery’ or with any other words. Such brands are quite catchy, for instance, Champignon Café, Blue Jam Café, Sweet Treats, and so forth.
- Foreign names. The business owners can also use foreign words and phrases, especially if in you “specialize” in the cooking of dishes of the particular national cuisine. There is an infinite number of variants, from simple brands, such as Café Bellissimo to the complicated ones, for example, Eduscho Mit Einem Twist.
- Other original brands. This is the most diverse group of brands. Some of them include the keyword ‘cafe’, some do not, however, all of them are quite creative. They may be associated with certain locations, countries, people, moods, historical figures, and even materials. Most of them consist of two words, but there are shorter and longer variants as well.
Examples
1. Names associated with coffee
101 Coffee Shop 95 Degrees Aroma Coffee Aroma Mocha Aromatic Drinks Baristas Bean & Gone Beans & Cream Beans from Brazil Beans 'n Cream Cafe Beany Business Birch Coffee Birch Coffee Birch Coffee Black Fox Coffee Blue Bottle Coffee Blue Bottle Coffee Boston Barista Box Kite Coffee Brewed Mochas Cafe Arabica Cafe Latte Caffè crema House Caffee Latte Cakes and Espresso Capital Coffee Club Coffee Cocoa Coffee Cocobean Coffee & Cake Coffee 101 Coffee Break Cafe Coffee Central Coffee Crew Coffee Drips Coffee Express Coffee House Coffee Hut Coffee Lab Coffee Nature Coffee Project Coffee Republic Coffee Shot Coffee Time Coffeeville Cold Choco Café Compass Coffee Cosy Coffee Culture Espresso Dolcezza Gelato and Coffee Dream Bean Cafe Dream Bean Coffee Shop Eightfold Coffee Espresso Cafe Espresso Express Espresso Joe's Essence Cafe Expresso Express-O Coffee |
Fresh Coffee Stop Fresh Creams G & B Coffee Gimme! Coffee Gregorys Coffe Honest Coffeehouse Hot Coffee Day HuggaMug Cafe ilCaffe Illy Coffee House Impresso Espresso Interact Coffeehouse Jacked Up Coffee Joe Coffee Jumpin' Beans Cafe Jumpstart Coffee Shop Laughing Man Coffee Le Café Coffee Macchiato Espresso Bar Maru Coffee Max Caffe Milk & Cookies, anyone? Milky Pastries Mugs Coffee My Own Brew Ninth Street Espresso No Doze Cafe Peet’s Coffee Pushcart Coffee Roasted Beans Royal Coffee Screamin' Beans Southern Cross Coffee Special Mocha St Kilda Coffee Star Cafe and Coffee Steam Beans Cafe Steaming Mugs Robusta Cafe Steamy Beans Coffee Sweetbrew Swork Coffee The Busy Bean The Coffee Club The Coffee Grinder The Coffee Lounge The Family Bean The Friendly Bean The Roasted Bean The Split Bean Think Coffee Third Rail Coffee Tierra Mia Coffee Toby’s Estate Coffee Town & Country Coffee Verve Coffee Roasters Yo Yo Coffee Yummies Coffee Shop |
2. Brands Associated with Food
Bits and Bites Cinammon Café Sugar Cube Cafe Sweet Treats The Jam Jar Waffle On Zest 85 ° C Bakery Cafe Blue Jam Cafe Marmalade Cafe |
Macaron Cafe Peacefood The Bread Factory Cranberry Cafe Champignon Cafe Sugar Hill Cafe Frame Gourmet Eatery Bloom’s Deli A Little Taste Cafe |
3. Foreign Names
Abraco Antonucci Cafe Boissons Chaudes Bouchon Bakery & Cafe Café Aromatic Cafe Bellissimo Café Bonjour Café Boulud Café Con Crema Café D’Alsace Café Dupont Café Fiorello Café Gitane Cafe Pronto Café, N'Importe Qui? Caffè Con Susan Caffè e Pizze Caffè Nella Pioggia Délicieux Gateaux Eduscho Mit Einem Twist El Espresso Salvaje |
El Parador Cafe Elle Esquina Capuchino Fanelli Jivamuktea Cafe Kaffeinate Koneko L' Espresso Géant Le Bon Cafe Le Grainne Cafe Maketto Meow Parlour Milchige Getränke Mille-feuille Bakery Cafe Mmm ... Café au lait New Tong Shing Pasticcini Caldi Reiz Conversations Viztango Cafe Warme Getränke |
4. Other original names
7 Monks Cafe Anyway Cafe Arte Cafe B Cup Cafe Banc Cafe Basin Cafe Basket & Green Beach Cafe Bennie Thai Cafe Berri’s Big Bear Cafe Blue Dog Cafe Blue Hill Blustone Lane Broadway Deli Brother’s Bakery Cafe C&M Cafe Cafe 2.0 Café 28 Café 50’s Café Amrita Café Angelique Café Carlyle Café Centro Café China Café Clover Cafe Continental Cafe Culture Café Duke Café Gratitude Café Gratitude Venice Café Grumpy Café Habana Café Integral Cafe Italia Cafe Java Café Kabila Café Lafayette Café Lalo Café Luxembourg Café Metro Cafe Mode Café Olympia Cafe Plus Café R Café Select Café Standard Cafe Thirteen Café Verona Café Wha? Café Zaiya Caffe Regio Candle Cafe Candle Café West Carrera Cafe Cascade Cafe cinBrekky Cafe City Cafe Colburn Cafe Convivial Coral Tree Café Corner Café and Bakery Cornerstone Cafe Country Lane Cafe Covina Cup o' Joe Cupping Room Cafe Dante Dean & DeLuca Dirty South Deli Cafe Dunhill Cafe Eastside Cafe Edgar’s Cafe Edge Cafe Eight Acres Cafe Epic Cafe Europa Cafe European Cafe Fairway Cafe Fiat Cafe Five Stuy Cafe Flamenco Flip Cafe Fluffy’s Cafe Frank Fresh Gaby Genes Cafe Globe Great Jones Grind House Grinders Cafe Ground Support Cafe Ground Up Cafe Happy Bones Hector’s Café & Diner Hidden City Cafe Hillside Homegirl Cafe Hype Cafe Inside Cafe |
Isadora’s Cafe Jerusalem Cafe Juan Valdz King's Cafe Kings Road Cafe Kinship La Rose Lacma Cafe Lava Java Le Cafe Le Moulin a Cafe Literati Cafe Little Collins Lucid Cafe M Cafe Mae Mae Cafe Mamajuana Cafe Martinique Cafe Mezzanine Cafe Midori Matcha Cafe Morso Myriad Nectar Cafe New Dynasty New Leaf New Word Cafe Nick’s Cafe Oh! Ol' Cafe Paper or Plastic Cafe Paradigm Cafe Parisian Cafe Park Cafe Peacock Cafe Petrossian Boutique & Cafe Piccolo Cafe Pomme Palais Pot Luck Providence Cafe Riverside Cafe Round K Russ & Daughters Cafe Sidewalk Slipstream Spectrum Cafe Spiced Chai Cafe Spoke Bicycle Cafe Spoonful Cafe Springtime Cafe Stillwater Cafe Streets Cafe Studio Cafe Sunrise Cafe Sweet Home Cafe Tatiana's Cafe Telegraph cAfe Temptations The Antique The Atrium The Barracks The Bluebell Cafe The Boardwalk The Brim The Corner Cafe The Cube The Daily Grind The Elk The Griddle Café The Grind The Guest House The Hideout The Highland Cafe The Lab The Little Cafe The Mansion The Modern The Paris Cafe The Red Flame The Riggsby The River Cafe The Smile The Steam Room The Uncommons The View The Village Cafe Topped Off Trump Cafe Tulip's Cafe Two Hands Uncle Joe's Uncle Vanya Cafe Urban Vees Café Viand Cafe Victor’s Cafe Wake Up Cafe Waterfront West Blank Cafe Wide Awake Cafe With Love Market & Cafe Zone Café |