Travel Blog Names

Travel blogs should be informative, fun, and engaging, the name needs to reflect that. Start by brainstorming creative words around the idea of travel. Words like seafarer, wanderlust, expedition, voyage. Suggest grandeur and adventures, but also make it light-hearted, and hint at the witty engaging writing style. You also want to make sure people trust the advice and information you offer, so try and avoid anything to tongue in cheek or silly, but use language that promotes trust.

Lifestyle Blog Names

A lifestyle blog should have a name that indicate a carefree, fun, and happy blog. No one wants to read about depressing things in a lifestyle blog, they are looking for life hacks to better their own lives. Or in the very least to vicariously experience good things through reading your blog. In addition, because a lifestyle blog can cover many topics, from food, to exercise, to fashion and beauty, the name should be fairly abstract and unrestricted. For example the blog, ‘Barefoot Blonde,’ plays upon the stereotype of blondes having more fun and the word barefoot shows she is carefree. This name also doesn’t in anyway hint at any particular topics, allowing her to blog around numerous subjects.

Food Blog Names

First thing you need to decide is what aspect of food are you going to cover? Health foods? Restaurants? Decadent cake recipes? If you are going to focus on something specific, like pizza joints, you want a name that informs the reader of what they are getting into, so should likely incorporate the word pizza.

You might decide to cover a broader range of topics though. ‘Spoon Fork Bacon’ is a great example of a blog name that says nothing in particular, but you instantly know the blog is going to be about food, and probably not healthy food. This is someone who likes eating and likely has a perfectly understandable, very relatable, but potentially unhealthy addiction to bacon.

If you’re looking to start a business in any of these areas we’ve written some naming guides you can check out specific to your industry including, Health Business Names, Restaurant Names, Cake Business Names and Juice Business Names.

Creative Blog Names

There are a vast array of niches surrounding creative blogs. DIY, graphic design, advertising, illustration, photography, art, writing. A creative blog should address a specific creative category and as such the name should clearly indicate what the main topic will be. A DIY blog might be called, ‘A Crafty Mess’. The word craft implies homemade, DIY, the word mess makes it seem lighthearted. It suggests it isn’t a serious DIY blog, but a creative one using everyday items to create incredible crafty ideas. We’ve written a handy Creative Business Name Guide here that might be helpful.

Personal Blog Names

First we should define what we mean by a personal blog. We don’t mean your average angsty online teen diary. A personal blog is where you write about anything, without necessarily any goals or specific topics beyond things that interest you and your opinions. Mostly the popular ones encourage online engagement and are fun to read. A personal blog can help you make a good first impression. You can display your knowledge, skillsets and passions which may help with your career down the line.

However, building a loyal readership can be hard if you try and please too many people. So, focusing on a certain niche will help you connect on a deeper level with your audience in the long run. This means choosing a name that accurately displays your interests, passions and style is incredibly important. You might, for example, take topics that you have talked about with friends over coffee. ‘The Coffee Fuelled Muse’ then would make an interesting personal blog title. Being fuelled by coffee is relatable, and Muse suggests a creative interpretation. This name is also unrestricted.

Beauty Blog Names

For a beauty blog you really want to think about using language which connotes ideas that surround beauty, such as: refined, elegant, stylish, love, grace, allure, glamour. A lot of beauty blogs are also based around personal brands, which makes this a very difficult industry to break into. Successful beauty bloggers often come from a successful career in the beauty industry, for example modeling, fashion stylists, make-up artists. This previous experience lends their blogs credibility. Thus a lot of blogs incorporate a name alongside descriptive language. If you’re thinking about starting a business in the beauty industry take a look at our Beauty Business Name guide that’s packed full of helpful guidance.

Blog Name Inspiration

1. Wander with the Wind: The alliteration makes the name easy to remember. Also, it refers back to the novel Gone with the Wind. Wander makes it sound whimsical and suggests you cover a broad range of locations and information. 
2. Those who Voyage: A voyage sounds like a great adventure. By using the word ‘those’ you incorporate the reader into the circle of those that wander, making the blog more relatable.
3. Style of Life: Taking apart the word lifestyle allows you to add and mix meanings. Style of life could refer to literal fashion styles or anything that constitutes an important part of living a balanced lifestyle. This isn’t too restricting, meaning you can, in time cover a broad range of subject matters.
4. Latest Craze: This describes quite literally what you would be offering, an analysis of latest trends and crazes. By making it clear what you are offering you can quickly grab your relevant target audiences attention.
5. The Passionate Pizza People: This name instantly identifies the blog’s niche. It is quite a restrictive name. However, most people like pizza so the potential audience could be huge.
6. Read, Set, Bake!: A blog about baking. It identifies the niche, and also sounds fun and light, playing on the children’s starting call, ‘Ready, Set, Go!’
7. Homemade Mysteries: This could refer to a few things. The use of the word mysteries is in itself mysterious, enticing the reader’s curiosity to discover what these are.
8. The Crafty Challenger: The use of the word challenge is an immediate challenge to the readers. This instantly grabs the target audience. If the content is done well and matches the promise of the blog name you could easily build up an engaged readership.
9. Fabric of Passion: Fabric refers to literal fabric as well as to the metaphorical make up of passions. The use of the word passion also suggests that fashion, style, fabrics, textiles are the bloggers passion.
10. Luckily Alluring: Alluring suggests beauty and luck has positive connotations. This matched with the alliteration of ‘L’s’ throughout the words makes the name easy to remember and phonetically pleasing.
11. [Your Name]: Using your own name in your blog name relies heavily upon your confidence in your personal brand. If you are already a respected name in your industry then this could easily help your blog take-off. On the other hand, if you are building your personal brand, using your own name could make it more challenging to develop an interested engaged readership. Either way though, your name should lend credibility to your blog and make your content seem more trustworthy.

What Not to Name Your Blog

When it comes to naming your blog you want to make sure that the subject matter of your blog is easily understood. However, it also should be creative and draw readers in. Try not to go for the obvious name but work in abstract associations, interesting idioms and word play.

Avoid using cliches and equally avoid using language that people won’t understand. Whilst you might think it’s clever, complex language is easily forgotten or misunderstood.

You also want to try and create an original name, something that identifies your niche and stands out from other similar businesses.

Further things to avoid are purposeful misspellings. You want to make your name as easy to find online as possible.