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California Rules on Naming Your corporation or LLC
Once you’ve checked to see if your California business name is available, you’ll need to confirm it follows certain naming rules.
Your California business name should not be confusable with or similar to another business in CA.
Normally, you cannot imply connection with a California state entity or that you will be carrying out activities your CA business is not legally able to provide.
If your California business is an LLC, it must contain “Limited Liability Company” or an abbreviation. If it’s a corporation, it must contain a word like “Incorporated,” “Corporation” or something similar.
California Corporation Naming Rules
There are additional, specific rules you will need to follow from the California Secretary of State for naming your CA S Corporation or C Corporation.
Using the following words in a corporation name requires special approval from a regulatory body: bank, trust, trustee or related words; credit union or related words; cooperative or any abbreviation of that word; insurer, insurance or related words.
The name of a flexible purpose corporation must contain the words "flexible purpose corporation" or an abbreviation of those words.
The name of a corporation authorized to incorporate as a professional corporation must comply with the name style requirements of the regulatory agency which has jurisdiction over the particular profession.
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