Grew up in Florida which I feel has it's own unique style of pub names such as: The Thirsty Turtle Captain Jack's (or any other Captain) The Brass Ring Manatee Lagoon (or other animal or place lagoon) The Square Grooper (slang for packages of cocaine found in the water or on the shore)

US here: Names are all over the place.

The nearest one to my apartment is called The Brass Tap. And it's one of those bars that is more like a coffee shop than a bar; well lit, sterilized, corporate shit.

We also have a gay bar in town called The Brave Bull which is apt, because you gotta be brave to go there considering it has a reputation as being a place you will likely be stabbed at.

It’s the same all over the world, although the UK definitely leads in original or funny names - which date back to times when people still couldn’t read. In France you will have a lot of places called the Cheval Blanc or other colored horses. In Germany, zum Ochsen, die Sonne, die Linde abound, anything that allowed the patrons to quickly find the locale.

New Zealand here. I've had a pint in The Queen's Ferry Tavern, The Queen's Head and The King's Arms. Also Bar None, The Crow Bar, Murphy's Irish Pub, The Whitestone Cafe, The Blacksmith, The Q Bar, The Web, The Bull, Studio X, The Rose and Crown, The Office, The Local, The Fat Dog, Broncos, Galbraith's Ale House and a host more I can't bring to mind right now.

The reason most of our pubs are named like that is because when pubs first became a thing most people couldn't read, so instead they'd paint a picture on a sign outside to make it easier to direct people to the pub if they asked. They were also just regular houses that had spare beer that they'd sell to the public and wouldn't always be selling anything, that's why they were called public houses originally too.

In Canada pub, tavern, bar, are common. Less common, at least in NS, is public house.

Best British pub name I've seen so far was The Rat And Radiator ... in Hull, IIRC.

Best authentic old pub name was "The Spread Eagle" ... which was named that before the phrase got it's current meaning :-)

(US) They vary wildly even in the same city. A lot of times, smaller dive bars will just be "[Name]'s Bar" or "[Name's] Bar 2" if they have more than one. Reason for the numbering, as was explained to me, is that allows them to operate under the same liquor license.

Then you get the punny named ones like "The Pour House" or "Keglers". Some are based on a gimmick like "The Fish Bowl" where you could order a giant glass fish bowl full of beer.

In college towns, they're often clubs rather than bars/pubs, so you'll see names like "Lazy Lizard", "Liquid Lounge", "Shooters", etc. The biggest and most popular one when I went to college was called "Bent Willey's". Sex pun aside, it was on a sharp curve near Willey St, which is probably how they got it approved.

Here in the NL we have names like "The Little Waterway," "The Bridge," "The Small Pond," "The Barking Fish," "The Elk," or the original owners name or a local joke. My local place is called "Rip and Pluck".

The US doesn't have pubs like Britain - ours are mostly bars, or food places with beer, or beer places with food. I've known only a few places that are similar to British pubs where it's more like your local place for food and beer, where you'll see families and kids - though most chains are geared towards families too, it's not the same atmosphere as your "local" - at my local many people know each other, it's that "local".

Sports bars will have screens everywhere showing current games. Can be raucus during football season, but soccer is growing in the US.

Lots of places are simply the family name of the owner "Johnson's Tavern" kind of thing, some have simple names "The Pub" or mildy clever.

Chains have a certain motif - see BW3. And while not really pub-like, you could take kids there for meals.

Take a look in Google Maps - pick a US city and search for "bar" or "pub".

In the USA Most are generic names for chains like and they are bar in grills the other are shit pubs like the Londoner that are truing to be British pubs without the culture its like a pub at Epcot. There was a place called Wickers that was great but got shutdown for kids underage drinking.

In the US, I'd say that "bar" is probably the most common, but you can find "tavern" or "pub" (the latter especially if the thing is British-themed).

searches Google Maps for "bar in Chicago"

The ones that show up in the first listings and have a suffix:

• "… Bar": 10
• "… Pub": 4
• "… Tavern": 4

Some of the "pubs" there were Irish-themed.

US absolutely has pubs, but maybe called taverns, specially on the east coast like in Boston where lots of colonizers lived. Bell in Hand is a popular one there. I guess it depends on your definition of a pub, but the US is so multicultural that you’ll find straight pubs or wannabe pubs here too with names you’d expect to see in Ireland or England (e.g. Red Lion).

I think the closest modern thing to a pub in the US is called a “dive” or a “dive bar” where you pretty much just go to drink.

Canada is a lot like the UK. We have a lot of old english pub names.