Name check
Is your company name already in the register? Type the name you want to use. You see at once whether an active company in the KBO register already has the same or a similar name, and whether it works in your sector. Trademarks and domain names are checked separately.
“3 Monkeys”
An active company already has this name
The name is not unique in the register. In another sector the risk of confusion is smaller, but customers and search engines do not always make that distinction.
Also pick your activity to see whether a similar name exists in your own sector.
What this check does and does not say
- We compare against every name in the KBO register today: the name, the abbreviation and the trade names of enterprises and their establishments. Capitals, accents, punctuation and legal forms (bv, nv, srl, ...) do not count.
- This is not a trademark search and not legal advice on using the name. A name that is not in the register can still be protected as a trademark. Trademarks are searched in the official registers of the Benelux Office for Intellectual Property (BOIP, boip.int) and the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO, euipo.europa.eu).
- A domain name or a social media handle is also separate from the register.
Same or very similar names
10 registered enterprises with a name easily confused with yours.
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Computer consultancy and computer facilities management · Leuven · since 2016
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Sound recording · Sint-Gillis (bij-Brussel) · since 2009
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Hove · since 1991
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Cafés and bars · Gent · since 2018
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Elsene · since 2020
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Name of an establishment of The Monkeys Burgers · Full-service restaurants · Antwerpen · since 2024
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Other business support services · Anderlecht · since 2017
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Business and other management consultancy · Brussel · since 2020
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Vervaardiging van beddengoed, tafellinnen en textielwaren voor huishoudelijk gebruik · since 2013
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Limited-service restaurants, excluding mobile food services · since 2022
Names that resemble it 12 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
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Activities of head offices · Lokeren · since 2021
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Computer programming · Liège · since 2022
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Pre-press and pre-media services · since 2010
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Computer programming · Peer · since 2013
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Landscape service activities · Aalst · since 2015
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Business and other management consultancy · since 2016
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Antwerpen · since 2004
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Business and other management consultancy · Antwerpen · since 1994
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Limited-service restaurants, excluding mobile food services · since 1993
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Other activities auxiliary to financial services, excluding insurance and pension funding · Lo-Reninge · since 2023
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Retail sale of cars and light vans (up to 3.5 tonnes) · since 2022
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Freight transport by road · Mechelen · since 2023