Sustainable Fashion Brand Name Ideas
60 name ideas for a sustainable fashion brand, plus how the U.S. Census Bureau classifies this kind of business and where these businesses are most common.
Sustainable Fashion Brand name ideas
Tap a name to read what its key word means and where it comes from. Always check trademarks and your state's business name rules before you register.
Name words that fit, with their meanings
How a sustainable fashion brand is classified
For government statistics, tax forms and many licensing systems, a sustainable fashion brand usually falls under NAICS 315240: Women’s, Girls’, and Infants’ Cut and Sew Apparel Manufacturing.
This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing women's, girls', and infants’ apparel from purchased fabric. Women's, girls', and infants’ clothing jobbers, who perform entrepreneurial functions involved in apparel manufacture, including buying raw materials, designing and preparing samples, arranging for apparel to be made from their materials, and marketing finished apparel, are included.
Businesses classified here include
- Aprons, work (except waterproof, leather), women's and girls', cut and sewn from purchased fabric (except apparel contractors)
- Athletic clothing (except team athletic uniforms), women's and girls', cut and sewn from purchased fabric (except apparel contractors)
- Bakers' service apparel, washable, women's and girls', cut and sewn from purchased fabric (except apparel contractors)
- Bandeaux, women's and girls', cut and sewn from purchased fabric (except apparel contractors)
- Bathing suits, women's, girls', and infants', cut and sewn from purchased fabric (except apparel contractors)
- Bathrobes, women's, girls', and infants', cut and sewn from purchased fabric (except apparel contractors)
- Beachwear, women's, girls', and infants', cut and sewn from purchased fabric (except apparel contractors)
- Bedjackets, women's and girls', cut and sewn from purchased fabric (except apparel contractors)
- Blouses, women's, girls', and infants', cut and sewn from purchased fabric (except apparel contractors)
- Body stockings, women's and girls', cut and sewn from purchased fabric (except apparel contractors)
- Bra-slips, women's and girls', cut and sewn from purchased fabric (except apparel contractors)
- Brassieres cut and sewn from purchased fabric (except apparel contractors)
Definition and examples from the 2017 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS 315240), U.S. Census Bureau.
Women’s, Girls’, and Infants’ Cut and Sew Apparel Manufacturing in the U.S. by the numbers
Locations by number of employees nationwide
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2022. Counts cover employer establishments (businesses with paid employees); self-employed owners without staff are not included. Small establishments with 1–4 employees include those that reported no paid employees in mid-March.
States with the most women’s, girls’, and infants’ cut and sew apparel manufacturing locations
- California 290 locations
- New York 129 locations
- Texas 37 locations
- Florida 33 locations
- New Jersey 20 locations
- Hawaii 14 locations
- Pennsylvania 13 locations
- Illinois 10 locations
- Georgia 9 locations
- Massachusetts 9 locations
Each state page shows local numbers and links to that state's official business registration offices.