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How to name your after school care business

Hey, I’m Ashley (Branding Expert) and I’m going to guide you through our four steps to name your after-school care business. Below you’ll find twenty example names I created in this process and next, I’ll show you how you can create your own. To get started, try our after-school care business name generator above and then scroll below to find the first step in the naming process.

Kidwarts
The Shield
Elementary Alliance
The Kid Lounge
Homework Habitat
Create Crew
The After School Club
Kid’s Coffee
Hangout Haven
The Drop Zone
The Brat Pack
Kid Protect Industries
League of Lambs
Urchin Care
S’Cool Club
Stay & Play
KidWise
First Years Club
The Cookie Club
Kids Quest

Four steps to naming your after school care business

This four-step process will help you name your after-school care business. In this example, I created names that illustrate fun and care. Here’s each step I took in crafting these business names.

#1) Brainstorm your name ideas

Brainstorming on the words you want to use to represent your business is very important because this is the first impression your business makes on your potential customers. I used words like hangout, care, and play to show a fun but safe zone. Your goal here is to create a list of words or names that come to mind when thinking about your business.

If you’re stuck on words to use, try our business name generator.

Here are my name ideas after brainstorming:

Kidwarts
The Shield
Elementary Alliance
The Kid Lounge
Homework Habitat
Create Crew
The After School Club
Kid’s Coffee
Hangout Haven
The Drop Zone
The Brat Pack
Kid Protect Industries
League of Lambs
Urchin Care
S’Cool Club
Stay & Play
KidWise
First Years Club
The Cookie Club
Kids Quest

#2) Shortlist your ideas

Once you’ve developed a list of possible names, do an analysis of your ideas. Remove any names that could be hard to remember, spell or speak aloud. Keep names that are brandable, sound great, are memorable, and communicate your brand values, product, or service to your target audience.

Here’s a quick checklist you can run your ideas through to help shorten your list of names:

Is the name simple and easy to remember?
Is the name easy to read and say aloud?
Is the name different from competitors?
Does the name convey a relevant meaning?
Does the name avoid overused words or cliches?

My Shortlist:

Create Crew
The After School Club
Kid’s Coffee
Hangout Haven

Removed Ideas:

Kidwarts
The Shield
Elementary Alliance
The Kid Lounge
Homework Habitat
The Drop Zone
The Brat Pack
Kid Protect Industries
League of Lambs
Urchin Care
S’Cool Club
Stay & Play
KidWise
First Years Club
The Cookie Club
Kids Quest

#3) Get some feedback

You’ll now have a list of 3-6 great after-school care business names and you can start to ask potential customers or people working in the industry for feedback (your target audience). Avoid feedback from family and friends, are more likely to praise all your ideas and they aren’t your customer.

Be sure to ask questions like:

What first comes to mind when you first hear the name?
How would you spell it?

With you’re customer feedback you can now ask yourself is the name still relevant? and did it represent your business how you intended?

My customer feedback:

The After School Club

This sounds like a collection of different fun activities.

Kid’s Coffee

This sounds like a restaurant for kids only.

Hangout Haven

This sounds like a fun place for kids to go after school.

Create Crew

This sounds like an innovative club after school.

#4) Check if it’s available

At this point, it’s good to have at least three great after-school care business names on your list, in case any of your names are already taken. You can do a quick Business Name Search online to find out if you’re name is available within your country/state, also be sure to search if the name is also available for Trademark and Domain name Registration.

Competitor Name Analysis

To help you brainstorm potential business names, let’s take a look at three successful after-school care businesses and break down why and how they’ve chosen to name their business and why it works for them.

HiMama is a name that emphasizes the motherly care kids get here and also helps the parents feel at ease to leave their kids. It is a short and memorable name.

KinderCare Learning Centers combine kindergarten and care but also emphasize the mental development of kids. The name is very detailed as to qualifying the business rightly.

Head Start is a name that speaks for itself. The idea is to help your kids reach their potential early enough giving them a better shot and start at life.

5 Tips for naming your after school care business

The ideal business name should be simple, memorable, and convey a meaning all at the same time. Here are my 5 tips to keep in mind when developing your business name.

1. Do a Competitor Analysis

Doing a competitor analysis as your first step will save you a lot of time in the future, knowing what names to avoid and understanding why and how your competitor’s business name words for them will help you in forming your own business names. When analyzing competitors think about:

What business or product values are they conveying in their business name? How does that work for them?
Is there a trend in how these businesses are naming themselves? It’s best to avoid sounding like “just another one of those businesses”.
Who does it best? Why does it work and how can I produce a better name?

2. Focus on Naming your Business not Describing it.

A typical pitfall most businesses run into is describing their business name too literally, using overused words when naming your business like babies, school, and support. A more effective business name should convey to customers your businesses and product values at a deeper level. Try to name your business in a way that has a story behind it.

Let’s take for example a real after-school care business named “Head Start “.

Literally, this name conveys the start of something new and is a business name that is excellent because it passes its message without the use of common words.

3. How to make a more memorable name

Creating a memorable business name is the first step in getting into a customer’s mind and is also a task that’s easier said than done. Your business name should aim to stop a customer in their tracks and give extra thought to your product among your wave of competitors. Some tips to create a memorable name would be:

Use rhythmic pronunciation or alliteration (The Cookie Club, Homework Habitat)
Try using a word that wouldn’t be relevant when out of context (The Shield: Shield is used to defend in battles, but in this context, it refers to protecting kids and keeping them safe)
Keep it short and simple.

4. Try purchasing a Brandable business name

Brandable business names are names that are non-sensical but read and are pronounced well. They often use letter patterns of Vowel/Consonant/Vowel as these word structures are typically short, catchy, and easy to say and remember. For example, some brandable after school care business names could be:

Kidwarts
KidzKlub
Beanstalk babies

You can find a full list of Brandable business names at Domainify.com

5. Avoid combining words just to create a unique name.

Another mistake business owners typically make is creating bad word combinations when they find out that their business name idea is already taken. For example, shortening Homework Habitat to HomeHab.

You can see how these ideas are a step backward as they are not catchy, easily pronounceable, or memorable. In these situations, we suggest starting from scratch and trying the tips we mentioned previously.

Business Name Ideas

Here’s the ultimate list of related words you could use in your business name. Below is a list of trending, descriptive, and action words that are often related.

Trending Words

Here are the top trending words used in after-school care names.

kids
before
after
school
child
care
center
program
nursery
educational
community
day
daycare
life
enrichment
bright
future
company
house
treehouse
treasures
imagine
lunch
action
learn
place
learning
early
little
yours
ours
smart
doodle
club
brain
power
first schoolhouse
playcare
age
active
services
bright
horizons
start
choice
orbit
art
sports
academy
grade
summer
stars
skills
zone
new
meeting

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Words After School Care often describes

(“after school care ______”)

You can use these words to create after-school care names like ‘The After School Club’ and ‘After School Play’.

programs
program
activities
hours
job
jobs
clubs
classes
activity
snack
work
tutoring
club
centers
sports
sessions
meetings
staff
settings
groups
programming
detention
snacks
center
meeting
class
supervision
employment
arrangements
lessons
centres
workshops
special
services
events
recreation
play
workshop
setting
specials
director
schedule
opportunities
session
courses
games
project
contact
experiences
responsibilities
hour
help
participation
treats
programmes
conferences
sport
appointments
game
programme
playgrounds
conference
tutorials

How After School Care is often described

(“______ after school care”)

Example after school care names using these related descriptive words ‘Public After School Care’ and ‘Quality After School Care’.

good
public
site
time
affordable
infant
quality
free
subsidized
universal
adequate
family
funded
based
private
home
educational
municipal
institutional
nonfamilial
local
available
doggy
full
regular
formal
onsite
protective
mandatory
better
clean
decent
run
safe
corporate
italian
licensed
preschool
excellent
inadequate
developmental
institutionalized
suitable
unlicensed
nearby
commercial
geriatric
elder
acceptable
sponsored

After School Care Adjectives

You can use an adjective in your business name to create a business name like ‘Alternative After School Care‘ or ‘Universal After School Care‘.

extracurricular
supervised
regular
extracurricular
coeducational
alternative
universal
understaffed
supervised
subsidized
shared
public
private
postsecondary
good
funded
free
family
correctional
available
affordable
adequate

After School Care Verbs

You can use a verb in your after-school care name to create business names like ‘After School Drop Care‘ or ‘The After School Place‘.

afford
attend
attending
drop
dropped
find
finding
going
offer
pay
pick
picked
place
provide
provided
provides
providing
put
putting
take

Combine Words

We’ve taken words from above and from our generator results and combined the words to create new after school care names.

careol (care + school)
kare (kids + care)
schare (school + care)
sity (school + community)
lecare (learning + care)
cgram (care + program)
cace (care + place)
klub (kids + club)

Child Care in Foreign Languages

Consider using foreign words in your business name to give the impression of an international or exotic brand.

Latin: noun (cura puer).

French: noun (garde d’enfants).

Italian: noun (cura dei bambini).

Spanish: noun (cuidado de los niños).