Are there restrictions as to what I can name my corporation?
Just like any other legal entity, every state has restrictions on what you can name it and most of those come from a few different areas. Number one would be you can't name anything where there's a name that's confusingly similar or exactly similar to a name of another corporation that's out there. You can always check that out by taking and reserving the name in advance or having someone do a name check first. Additionally, corporations, states like you to identify them by placing something after the name of the company. Typically it's I N C, Inc. or it's incorporated or corporation or company or corp. or some combination of that, either with or without a comma. What that does is it really identifies to individuals when you put it on a business card or on a website or on a contract that they're dealing with an entity and not with you personally. Also, many states have other regulations that would prevent you from naming a company like a bank or naming it a trust company or naming it 'Police' or naming it, you know, like the 'Federal Bureau of Investigations' or, you know, even if it's something that isn't taken in your state they don't want anything that's going to, kind of confuse you with a government entity or make people think that you might be a bank when you're not an actual bank.
