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.

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 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.

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

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.

In France it would be mostly “Le <something>” or “Le <something> <adjective>.”

But the pubs themselves can have various “denominations” to talk about those places, and I think of 3 so far:

• bar (obviously)
• PMU (the national horse betting company)
• bistrot (a name with unclear origin, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bistrot) which is a place where you can both drink quickly and eat

Here in Germany, traditional names for pubs are often either animals (stork, eagle, bear, lion, trout, deer, etc.) or the original owner’s name.

Not nearly as colorful as some of the other examples here but I’m not aware if there might be regional differences. My region might just be particularly boring in this regard.

Story time. When living in Helsinki, Finland my group of friends was approached by some tourists. ‘Excuse me, we’re looking for this pub’. Okay, lots of them around, which one? ‘It’s called, like, the bubble on the hill…?’

Took a good ten seconds of head scratching and then one of us got it. Mäkikupla! Literally Bubble On The Hill but since the names are so random over here, none of us had given second thought about the funny name.

Told this story online and a Finnish person posted a confession. They’d been in Australia or whereever and recommended that particular place to someone. Looks like someone remembered.

• Bastard (reykjavik)

• Mollys (NYC)

• Tequila Mockingbird (Ocean City)

• Olive or Twist (Portland)

• Wish You Were Beer (Madison)

• Pour Boy (Toronto)

• Loose Moose (Toronto)

• Plug Uglies (NYC)

• LowBrau (sacramento)

• Pour House (everywhere)

• Beer and Loathing (Omaha)

• Deja Brew (Wendell)

• Paddy o’Beers (Raleigh)

• Crow Bar (Mount Holly)

Off the top of my head in Chicago:

• X’s bar
• X’s two-way
• The [evocative name]
• X’s

Sweden also has many old English pub names but also many others, very mixed overall.
The street in my city (Gothenburg) I got to most has these bars:
Kelly’s, Sejdeln (beer stein), King’s Head, Queen’s Head, Dansken (the danish), Republik, Down Under (Australian themed), Hops, The Abyss (heavy metal bar), Holy Moly, Bar Solo, Bongo, BIVAC, Haket (kinda “the place”, a slang word), SoHo, Ölstugan (the beer cabin), Street Life, Brewers, Le Pub, The Northern Quarter, 9:ans (the 9’s), Dirty Records, The Burger, Brygghuset (the brew house) and some more.
Yes, this is one street (both sides and some on corners and a bit up the perpendicular streets for a few).
Here’s the map (street in question is the red line):

There are about as many on the lower and upper parallel streets (combined). And that’s like 1/10th of the bars in the inner city, way more if you include outer areas.

I don’t go to bars anymore these days, these places are probably closed down by now since the last time I was in one of them was almost 30 years ago.

• club 21
• the oasis
• Clint’s
• Charlie’s

most the bars I went to were practically shacks in the middle of nowhere with zero name on the outside. only way you knew it was a bar was because of the beer signs outside.

In the southern US, a lot of counties voted to prohibit the sale of alcohol. They thought prohibition was a good idea, despite the bad things that caused the nation to end prohibition at the national level. Usually this is because they are full of religious people, and these are called “dry” counties, as opposed to “wet” counties, where the sale of alcohol is legal.

A common name for a bar is “the county line” implying that it gets all the business from the neighboring “dry” county.

Oddly enough in Salt Lake City, UT we have a few fun ones:

• A Bar Named Sue
• The Tavernacle (pokes fun at the mormon Tabernacle)
• Lake Effect

In my neck of the woods dive bars have the best names, we’ve got “the wooden nickel” and “the rusty nail”. These are not nice bars.