What America tried to trademark after 9/11
55 applications named the date or the towers in the year that followed. Seven reached registration. None are still live.
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Up-to-the-minute business name search across all 50 states
What businesses call themselves
We publish what the public record shows about business naming. The source is the federal trademark register: 11.2 million marks filed between 1870 and 2024, counted decade by decade.
Every figure is reproducible from a public dataset, and each piece carries a method note saying how it was counted and where the counting stops. We report what businesses did name themselves. What you should call yours is not ours to say.
When every business wanted to be a .com
Across 11.2 million trademark filings, .com is the largest naming bubble ever recorded. Here is the whole curve, and where AI sits on it.
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What happened to “& Sons”
"& Sons" was how a business promised it would outlive its founder. Across 11.2 million trademark filings it peaked before 1910 and never came back.
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