The name goes on your drug licence, your GST registration, your bills, your signboard and your Google Maps listing. Changing it later means changing all of those. So it is worth an evening of thought — and five quick checks — before you order the board.
Here are 80 ideas to start from, grouped by the feeling they give, and the checks that make sure the name you pick is really yours to use.
Simple and trustworthy
People choose a chemist they trust. These names say "reliable" without trying too hard.
Trust Medicals
Care & Cure Pharmacy
Shubh Medicos
Nirmal Pharmacy
Sahi Dawa Medical Store
Seva Medical Hall
Sachcha Pharmacy
Bharosa Medicals
Sure Care Chemists
Daily Care Pharmacy
Named after a place
Easy for people to remember and to search on a map: "the chemist near the station".
Station Road Medicals
Bazaar Pharmacy
Chowk Medical Hall
Gandhi Nagar Chemists
Lake View Pharmacy
Market Corner Medicos
Highway Medicals
Colony Care Pharmacy
Hospital Gate Medicals (only if you really are at the gate)
Old Town Chemists
Family names
Older stores often carry the family name. It builds trust over generations.
Sharma Medical Hall
Gupta Pharmacy
Das Medicals
Khan Chemists
Patel Medico
Banerjee Pharmacy
Singh Medical Store
Reddy Medicals
Joseph Pharmacy
Agarwal Chemists & Druggists
Hindi and Sanskrit words
Warm, local, and easy for older customers.
Sanjeevani Medicals
Arogya Pharmacy
Aushadhi Ghar
Swasthya Medical Store
Dhanvantari Medicals
Jeevan Pharmacy
Prana Chemists
Ayush Medical Hall
Kalyan Medicals
Sukh Shanti Pharmacy
Modern and short
Good for a newer store, a younger area, or if you want a website and an online presence.
MediNest
PillPoint
CureBay
DawaBox
MediCorner
WellPlus Pharmacy
RxCare
HealthHub Chemists
MedLane
Pharmora
Caring and family-friendly
Good if you will stock baby care, women's care and elderly care alongside medicines.
Mother Care Pharmacy
Little Steps Medicals
Golden Years Pharmacy
Family First Chemists
Nanhi Jaan Medicals
Mamta Medical Hall
Healthy Home Pharmacy
Aangan Medicals
Parivaar Pharmacy
Ghar Ghar Care
With numbers and time
Good if you plan to stay open late or on Sundays — but only if you really do.
24×7 Medicals
Night & Day Pharmacy
Anytime Chemists
Round the Clock Medicos
Sunday Open Pharmacy
Early Bird Medicals
7 to 11 Pharmacy
Late Night Chemists
All Day Care Pharmacy
Always Open Medicals
Five checks before you decide
Search the trademark registry. Go to the government's trademark search (IP India) and search the name in class 35 (retail) and class 5 (pharmaceuticals). If a company already owns it, pick another. Big pharmacy chains do enforce their names.
Search Google Maps in your city. If there is already a "Sanjeevani Medicals" two kilometres away, your customers will mix you up — and some will go to them.
Do not suggest something you are not. Avoid words like "Hospital", "Clinic", "Diagnostic" or "Jan Aushadhi" unless you really are one. Jan Aushadhi is the name of a government scheme; only stores approved under it can use it. Read how to open a Jan Aushadhi Kendra if that is your plan.
Use exactly the same name everywhere. The name on your drug licence application, GST registration, bank account, signboard and bills should match. "Shubh Medicos" on the board and "Shubh Medical Store" on the licence invites questions you do not need.
Say it on the phone. Call a friend and tell them the name. If they have to ask you to spell it twice, customers will too.
A good name is not the whole story
Customers remember a store for the pharmacist who explained the dose, the medicine that was always in stock, and the bill that was always right. The name only has to be easy to find and easy to trust. Pick one in an evening, run the five checks, and spend your energy on the rest: our guide on how to open a medical store and the post on what it costs to open one cover the next steps.
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