What kind of names do pubs or other drinking establishments have in your country?

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

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.

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.

(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".

We also have a ton of local bars with wildly varying names depending on the type of theme. Auntie Mae's, The Goose, The Goose II, Kickers (country bar), The Booby Trap, and O'Malley's Alley are ones I recall off the top of my head plus there were tons more. A bunch more are variations on something Saloon and lots of creative puns.

There is a lot of variety in the US, mostly because it is huge and varied.

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".

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.

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.