Good electrical business names sound safe and switched on: a family name with Electrical, your town, or a pun on watts and ohms. Going it alone as a sparky? This electrical business name generator has names for electricians and electrical contractors: catchy and funny puns, classic family names, professional names for contractors and short modern ones, plus names from your town or your first name.
Eight good electrical business names
All eight came from the generator:
- Switched On: a catchy name that also says you're on the ball.
- Live & Neutral: two wiring terms that sound like a firm's motto.
- Ohm & Dry Electricians: a pun on the ohm, the unit of resistance, and on "home and dry".
- The Crown Joules: named after the joule, the unit of energy, and the Crown Jewels.
- Barlow Electrical Contractors: a classic name for a firm that wins commercial work.
- Ironbridge Electrical Contractors: professional and solid, for bigger jobs.
- Three Phase & Co.: short and modern, and every electrician knows what it means.
- Hampton EV Chargers: a town name with a specialism. Put your own town in the box.
What makes an electrical name work
Electricians are "sparkies" in British slang, and the trade has plenty of words that double as puns. The units are named after scientists: the watt after James Watt, the ohm after Georg Ohm and the joule after James Prescott Joule.
- Puns on units and wiring make a name memorable: Watt the Fuse, Sparks & Recreation. Pair them with a slogan that says you're qualified.
- Say the specialism. EV chargers, solar, data cabling and lighting are all searched for, so a name like Hampton Bright Solar & Electrical tells people what you do.
- Professional names with Contractors, Installations or Group suit firms bidding for commercial work.
- Qualifications sell. In England and Wales, notifiable domestic electrical work falls under Part P of the Building Regulations. Electricians registered with a competent person scheme, such as NICEIC or NAPIT, can self-certify it, and customers look for those logos.
Check it's free before you print the sign
A electrical name ends up on a van, a website, a Google Business Profile and a stack of invoices, so it's worth a few minutes' checking before any of that is printed:
- Press Check on any name above. The Business Name Checker looks up the domain, links to the company register (Companies House in the UK) and opens the trade mark search and social handles.
- Search your area. Look up the name on a map and in local search results. Two firms with the same name a few miles apart confuse customers and reviews.
- Don't use a scheme's name or logo, such as NICEIC, in your business name. Show it beside the name once you're registered.
This is general guidance, not legal advice. For the full process, from shortlisting to registering, read our guide to Business Naming Best Practices.
Getting the name onto the van
- Keep it short enough to read from across the road.
- Add a slogan if the name is a joke: choose Name with a slogan for lines like Bright ideas, safe wiring.
- Leave room to grow: a name that only says EV chargers can feel narrow if you later do rewires.
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