Beach House Names: 70 Ideas for Your Place by the Shore

Sand on the floor, salt in the air, and a porch built for doing nothing at all. A beach house deserves a name as easygoing as the place itself, and one that looks good on a weathered sign by the boardwalk.

These beach house names start with the coastal classics, move on to the puns, and finish with a few insider picks for lawyers, bankers, and finance pros who finally have a place by the water. We've translated the inside jokes, so you'll have an answer ready when the neighbors ask.

Coastal classics

• Sea Glass: worn smooth by the waves, like everyone who stays here a week.
• The Dunes
• Seabreeze
• Driftwood Cottage
• Tidewater
• Low Tide: for a house where nothing is in a hurry.
• Sandpiper: the little shorebird that runs from every wave.
• Pelican Point
• Sea Oats: the tall grass that holds the dunes in place.
• Gull Cottage
• Sunset Bungalow
• Starfish Cottage
• Blue Horizon
• Barefoot Bungalow
• The Boardwalk
• Salt Air
• Sandy Toes
• Periwinkle: a small sea snail, and a soft shade of blue.
• Saltbox: the classic New England house shape, long roof in the back.
• Halcyon: calm, peaceful days, named for a mythical bird that calmed the sea.

Beachy puns

• Shore Thing
• Tide Me Over
• Life's a Beach
• Vitamin Sea
• Seas the Day
• Sea-cond Home: for the second home, naturally.
• Fin & Tonic
• Knot Leaving
• Wave Reviews: for a house that rents well.
• Sandy Claus: for a family that does Christmas at the beach.
• Sea-renity
• Salty Dog: for a house where the dog has the best spot on the porch.

Beach house names for lawyers

Beachfront property has its own corner of the law. These names put it to better use.

• Littoral Rights: the legal rights of an owner whose land touches the sea or a lake. Not to be confused with "literal."
• Mean High Tide: in many states, the line where private beach ends and public beach begins.
• Public Trust: the old legal doctrine that keeps the shoreline open to everyone. A generous name for a house that always has room for guests.
• Accretion: when the sea slowly adds sand to your beach, the new land is yours. The best kind of windfall.
• The Sandbar: you passed one bar. This is the other kind.
• Beach of Contract: no damages, just sunburn.
• Quiet Enjoyment: a promise in every lease, and the whole point of a beach house.
• Continuance: a request to push everything back one more week.
• Brief Escape
• Out of Court: and out of the office.

Beach house names for finance pros

• Offshore Account: the only offshore account your compliance department will approve.
• Shell Company: a company that exists mostly on paper. This one exists mostly to store seashells.
• Liquid Assets
• Current Account: named for the ocean currents, not the balance.
• High Water Mark: in investing, the peak an investment has to beat before a fund earns its performance fee. Hopefully not a flood reading.
• Fourteen Days: rent out your home for 14 days or fewer a year, and in the US that rental income generally doesn't count toward your taxes. Ask your accountant before you plan around it.
• Floating Rate
• The Sandbank: a real coastal feature, and the only bank that's closed all summer.
• Bank Holiday: for a banker's favorite days of the year.
• Front Office: beachfront, that is.
• Coastal Holdings
• Seaside Capital

For the whole family

• Family Tides
• Summer House
• The Gathering Place
• Grandma's Shore House
• Endless Summer
• Sandcastle
• Our Happy Place
• Home Away: from home, and from the inbox.
• The [Your Family Name] Beach House: timeless, and it settles the "whose house is it?" debate.

For the vacation rental

A good rental name is easy to spell, easy to search, and easy to remember from the photos.

• Shore Leave: for guests on a break from everything.
• Salt & Sun
• The Tide Pool
• Beach Daze
• Ocean Air
• Sea La Vie
• Book Again: what every host hopes the reviews will say.

Tips for naming a beach house

1. Think about the sign. Beach house names usually go on a weathered wooden sign or a front-door plaque, so shorter names read best from the street and from the sand.
2. Pick a sign that can take salt air. Sun, salt, and wind are hard on signs. Cedar, marine-grade PVC, and coated metal hold up better than painted pine.
3. Planning to rent it? Search the name first so you're not sharing it with three other rentals on the same stretch of beach.
4. Keep the address visible. Deliveries and emergency responders still need your street number, so show the name alongside it, not instead of it.
5. Test it on the family. If the kids can't say it, it'll be "the beach house" forever anyway.

Need a name for the boat, too? See our boat names for lawyers or our boat names for bankers and accountants. Torn between the shore and the lake? Browse our lake house names for bankers. Just closed on your primary home, too? See our new home names.