Sons of Boston will no longer bear that name when the downtown sports bar near Faneuil Hall reopens following a yearlong closure.

The city Licensing Board voted unanimously Thursday for ownership group Causeway Union LLC to change the bar’s name to Loyal Nine, honoring a group of Boston colonists.

Sons of Boston closed last spring after a bouncer allegedly stabbed a patron to death.

The Loyal Nine formed in reaction to the passage of the Stamp Act 1765, which required colonists to pay a British-imposed tax, represented by a stamp, on various forms of papers, documents and playing cards.

Shopkeepers and artisans, who comprised the Loyal Nine, looked to prevent the Stamp Act from taking effect by holding protests throughout the city, according to the Boston Tea Party Museum. The group often met at the former Boston Gazette newspaper in the area of Union Street, Sons of Boston’s attorney Carolyn Conway told the Licensing Board on Wednesday.

During a phone call with the Herald, Conway said she expects the bar at 19 Union St., to reopen sometime within the next couple of weeks. A definitive reopening date has not been determined, with the venue having to undergo preparation work, she said.

Causeway Union gained the opportunity to reopen Sons of Boston when the state Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission in late January “disapproved” the city Licensing Board’s  indefinite suspension of the bar’s liquor license.

Bouncer Alvaro Larrama, a 39-year-old East Boston father of four, is accused of stabbing 23-year-old U.S. Marine veteran Daniel Martinez to death outside the bar after the two got into a confrontation March 19, 2022. The case is playing out in the courts.

A lack of substantial evidence into the bar’s multiple violations alleged by the city factored into ABCC’s disapproval of the Licensing Board’s actions, which came shortly after the Mayor’s Office of Consumer Affairs and Licensing pulled the bar’s entertainment license.