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Compared with the KBO register · free

Type the name you want to use. You see at once whether an active company already has the same or a similar name, and whether it works in your sector.

“BAON”

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.

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Same or very similar names

1 registered enterprise with a name easily confused with yours.

  • BAON same name
    Business and other management consultancy · Gavere · since 2023
Names that resemble it 11 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
  • B.A.O. similar
    Waterloo · since 1998
  • BAO similar
    Abbreviation of BAO Academy · Vocational training · Brussel · since 2016
  • BAO similar
    Abbreviation of Brussels Agentschap voor Ondernemerschap · Overheden van gemeenschappen en gewesten · Sint-Gillis (bij-Brussel) · since 2017
  • BAO similar
    Abbreviation of BELGIAN ART ONLY · Retail sale of other cultural and recreation goods · Temse · since 2020
  • Bao similar
    Development of residential building projects · Herselt · since 2021
  • B.A.O. similar
    Abbreviation of Bureau des Affaires de l'Ombre · Sint-Joost-ten-Node · since 2023
  • Bao similar
    Abbreviation of Merci Bao · Groothandel in andere akkerbouwproducten · Schaarbeek · since 2023
  • B.A.O.C. similar
    Abbreviation of Benelux Autohome Owners Club · Geel · since 1978
  • BAOB similar
    Abbreviation of BAOB BRUSSELS · Jette · since 2021
  • BAoP similar
    Abbreviation of Belgian Academy of Paediatrics · Activities of professional membership organisations · Elsene · since 2012
  • Sole trader similar
    Beauty care and other beauty treatments · since 2026

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. A name can be free in the register and still be protected as a trademark. Trademarks are searched in the 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.

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