There are many companies that do business in the state of Mississippi and each has a unique Business Name for their Mississippi Company.

If you have an idea for a Business, the Name of your Mississippi Company can be very important for a number of reasons.  The right Name for your Mississippi Company can increase sales and make your Mississippi Business more credible.

Reserving a name for your Mississippi Company could reduce the processing time for your application to form a Mississippi Corporation or LLC with the Mississippi Secretary of State.

Mississippi Company Name Reservation protects a Business Name by giving the owner exclusive rights to the use of that Company Name during the time the Mississippi Company is being organized and afterward while doing Business in the state of Mississippi.

We can Reserve your Mississippi Company Name with the Mississippi Secretary of State for only $29 + Mississippi state fees.

We will check to make sure that your Mississippi Company Name is available and conforms to all state of Mississippi Business Naming regulations.

You can easily Reserve a Mississippi Company Name by choosing one of the Mississippi Business Type options in the Mississippi Company Name Reservation Cost Estimator below.

Please note that the availability of a Mississippi Company Name can change at any time so if you're worried that someone else may snatch your Mississippi Company Name you might want to Reserve that Mississippi Company Name online today.

You need to use a Mississippi Company Name which is not the same or too similar to the Business Name of any other entity operating in the state of Mississippi.  The Mississippi Secretary of State will not approve a Mississippi Company Name which is so similar to another Mississippi Company Name (Corporation or LLC) as to be likely to be mistaken for it.

Your Mississippi Company Name can identify the type of products and/or services your Mississippi Corporation or Mississippi LLC will provide; or it may be the name of the founder; or it can be a combination of the two or even something else.

In any case, the Mississippi Company Name that you choose must be distinguishable from the name of any other registered Mississippi Business entity and the name must also be different from any Reserved Company Names on record with the Mississippi Secretary of State.  Your Mississippi Company Name must not imply that it was formed for a purpose other than that stated in your formation documents and your Mississippi Company Name must not be a name that is likely to mislead the public.

If you are planning on starting a Mississippi Corporation then your name must include the words "Incorporated", "Corporation", "Inc." or "Corp.".  If you are planning on starting a Mississippi LLC then your name must include the words "LLC" or "Limited Liability Company".

Here are some general guidelines to keep in mind when you come up with your Mississippi Company Name:

• Your Mississippi Company Name must include only English letters and numbers or Roman numerals.
• Punctuation DOES NOT make Mississippi Company Names distinguishable from each other.
  For example, "A.B.C., Inc." is not distinguishable from "ABC, Inc."
• Plural forms of the same word DO NOT make the Mississippi Company Names distinguishable from each other.
• A suffix added to a word or any other deviation from or derivative of the same word DOES NOT make Mississippi Company Names distinguishable from each other.
• Mississippi Company Names are NOT DISTINGUISHABLE if the only difference is the abbreviation of a word in the name.  For example, "MS Auto Store, Inc." is not distinguishable from "Mississippi Auto Store, Inc."
• Mississippi Company Names are NOT DISTINGUISHABLE if the only difference is a phonetic spelling of the same word.  For example, "Boyz, Inc." is not distinguishable from "Boys, Inc."

It's important to choose a good name for your Mississippi Business because if you want to change it after you form your Mississippi Company you will have to file amended formation documents with the Mississippi Secretary of State (and pay a fee).

Exclusive rights gives the person who Reserved a Company Name for a Mississippi Business the exclusive right to the use of that name.

An exclusive right means that no one else may use the Mississippi Company Name which you Reserved for your Mississippi Business.  This includes both the time during which you are forming your Mississippi Corporation or LLC and afterward when you are doing Business in the state of Mississippi.

To find out how much it will cost to Reserve a Mississippi Company Name, choose a Mississippi Company Type Option on the Mississippi Company Name Reservation Cost Estimator on this web page below.  The total cost will be displayed automatically.

Processing times for new Mississippi Company Name Reservations vary depending on the work load of the Secretary of State's staff.  We've found that normal processing of a new Mississippi Company Name Reservation takes the state around 2-3 business days. We are dependent on, and have no control over, the staff and systems of the Mississippi Secretary of State.

In our experience 2-3 business days is the time it usually takes the Mississippi Secretary of State to process a new Mississippi Company Name Reservation.  We get your Mississippi Company Reservation request to the MS Secretary of State ASAP.  Once it is at the state we have no control over the new Mississippi Company Name approval process.

Once you Reserve a Name for your Mississippi Company it is valid for 120 days.  You must file your Mississippi Business formation documents (Articles of Incorporation for new Corporations or Articles of Organization for new LLCs) with the Mississippi Secretary of State within that time period.

If you don't use the Mississippi Company Name which you have Reserved you can Reserve it again unless some other Mississippi Business has Reserved the Name before you do.