Product Naming

Einstein said if he had 60 minutes to save the world, he would spend 55 of those minutes on problem definition.

No other naming company works harder than Strategic Name Development to understand your target market and competitive landscape.

As naming consultants, what we know about building brand strategy, we learned from the companies who perfected it.

Experience is the key. You benefit from over 15 years of success with building brand strategies. As naming consultants, we continually keep up with the ever-changing arena of naming a business and naming a product or service.


The Branding / Naming Connection

Because your product name is built on your brand strategy, branding and naming have a powerful connection. Together they present a vision, create an emotional connection and express the benefits of your product/service to your target group.


A Naming Company that Relies on People, not Software

It's all in our heads. No name service software here. Selected brand naming strategies include:

Method Company Application
Metonymy Starbucks Corporate / product name
Haplology Toys R Us Naming a business
Synecdoche Staples Corporate name
Alliteration Coca Cola Corporate / product name
Theronym Mustang Product name
Mimetics Google Naming a business
Eponymy Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. Naming a business
Description Bed, Bath & Beyond Retail name
Poetics USA Today Product name
Combination Walkman Product name
Allusion London Fog Product name
Clipping FedEx Naming a business
Morphological Borrowing Nikon Product name
Omission RAZR Product name
Acronym Adaptation NYSE Corporate name
Backronym KFC Brand repositioning
Onomatopoeia Ferrari Product name
Classical Roots Pentium Product name
Arbitrary Apple Company name