Classic laundry shop names
Clear about what you do and easy to read on a tarpaulin from across the street. These age well and never need explaining.
- Fresh Fold Laundry
- Clean Press Laundry
- Daily Wash Laundry Shop
- Pure Linen Laundry
- The Laundry Room
- Crisp & Clean Laundry
- Soft Touch Laundry
- Clear Water Laundry
- Neat Stack Laundry
- First Rinse Laundry
- White Label Laundry
- Everyday Laundry Shop
- Clean Cotton Laundry
- The Wash House
- Bright Linen Laundry
- Simply Fresh Laundry
Catchy and funny laundry business names
A pun customers repeat to a neighbour. Funny works as long as the word laundry is still somewhere on the sign.
- Suds & Buds Laundry
- Spin Doctor Laundry
- Load & Go Laundry
- Tumble Time Laundry
- Soap Opera Laundry
- The Spin Cycle
- Lost Sock Laundry
- Fold Mine Laundry
- Wash Wash Baby
- Dirty Laundry Shopworks as a joke only if the signage is spotless
- Sud's Up Laundry
- Rub a Dub Laundry
- Spin City Laundry
- Fluff Enough Laundry
- Press Start Laundry
- Hang Time Laundry
Filipino and Taglish laundry business names
A Tagalog word tells customers you are from here, and it sticks in the memory better than an English one. Choose a word that is easy to spell, because people will type it to find you.
- Labada Expresslabada means laundry
- Mabango Laundrymabango means fragrant
- Presko Laundry Shoppresko means fresh
- Malinis Laundrymalinis means clean
- Banlaw Laundrybanlaw means rinse
- Puting Puti Laundryputing puti means pure white
- Labandera's Laundrylabandera means laundrywoman
- Bagong Labadafreshly laundered
- Plantsadong Perfectplantsado means pressed
- Tupi Laundry Shoptupi means fold
- Sabon at Tubig Laundrysoap and water
- Amoy Bago Laundrysmells brand new
- Labahan ni Aling Rosalabahan means washing place
- Linis Lahat Laundryeverything clean
- Araw-Araw Laundryaraw-araw means every day
- Suki Laundry Shopsuki means a regular customer
Self-service and coin laundry names
For a shop where customers run the machines themselves. The name should say so, or you will spend all day explaining it at the counter.
- Coin & Spin Laundromat
- Self Serve Suds
- Drop a Coin Laundry
- 24/7 Wash Station
- Quick Coin Laundromat
- Wash Bar Self-Service
- Sarili Mong Labadayour own laundry
- Piso Wash Laundromatpiso is the one-peso coin
Pickup and delivery laundry names
For a service that collects from the customer's door. Put the collection in the name and you answer the first question before they ask it.
- Wash on Wheels
- Doorstep Laundry
- Pickup & Press
- We Collect Laundry
- Sundo Labadasundo means to fetch
- Laundry Delivered
- Hatid Labadahatid means to deliver
- Door to Door Laundry Co.
Make your own: four formulas
- Your street or barangay + Laundry. Neighbours find you, and the name says where to walk to. Hard to beat for a shop that lives on foot traffic.
- Your name + Laundry Shop. It puts a person behind the counter, and your own name is almost never already registered.
- A clean word + your town. Presko, Malinis or Mabango with the place name: short, local, and it spells itself.
- A promise + Laundry. Labada Express, Araw-Araw Laundry, Wash on Wheels. The name tells customers what they get before they ask.
Laundry service names
Three tiers is enough to choose from at the counter. Laundry sells by what happens to the clothes rather than by how long it takes, so name the tiers that way and price each one per kilo on the board above the counter.
Taglines for a laundry tarpaulin
A tagline sits under your name on the tarpaulin. Keep it short enough to read while walking past.
- “Drop it off. Pick it up folded.”
- “Labada tapos, araw mo libre.”laundry done, your day is free
- “Clean clothes, zero effort.”
- “Mabango, malinis, mabilis.”fragrant, clean, fast
- “Same day in by 9, out by 6.”
- “We wash. You rest.”
- “Your clothes, treated like ours.”
- “Sulit na labada, every kilo.”laundry that's worth it
How to pick the right one
- Say it out loud. If you have to spell it twice over the phone, customers will misspell it when they search for you, and they will not find your page.
- Say what you do. Laundry, Labada or Laundromat in the name tells people what you are before they read anything else.
- Picture it on a tarpaulin. A short name prints big enough to read from across the street. A long one shrinks until nobody can read it from the jeepney.
- Leave room to grow. If you might add dry cleaning, pickup or a second branch later, do not pick a name that rules them out. “Self Serve Suds” is awkward the day you start folding for people.
- Check it is free before you spend anything. Generic laundry names get registered early, including some on this page.
Check the name is free before you print anything
A tarpaulin, a signboard and a stack of claim stubs are all cheap to reprint once and expensive to reprint twice. Check three places first:
- The DTI's Business Name Registration System at bnrs.dti.gov.ph has a name availability check. As a sole proprietor, you register your business name there; a partnership or corporation registers with the SEC instead.
- IPOPHL's trademark database at ipophil.gov.ph, for marks already registered or pending. WIPO's Global Brand Database searches it too.
- Facebook and Google Maps, for laundry shops near you already using the name, registered or not. This is the one that catches the shop two barangays over.
Business name registration for a sole proprietor is handled by the Department of Trade and Industry through bnrs.dti.gov.ph; trademark searches are through the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines at ipophil.gov.ph. Confirm current requirements with each agency before registering.
Registering the name is the first step of opening. The rest, from the barangay clearance to the sanitation rules a laundry has to meet, is in our guide to starting a laundry business in the Philippines. If you are writing this up for a lender, the laundry shop business plan page covers the sections they look for.
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