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Is your company name still free?

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.

“Bilbas”

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.

Same or very similar names

6 registered enterprises with a name easily confused with yours.

  • Bilbas same name
    Limited-service restaurants, excluding mobile food services · Sint-Niklaas · since 2022
  • BilBao very similar
    Other membership organisations · Kasterlee · since 2014
  • Sole trader very similar
    Agents in non-specialised wholesale trade · since 2010
  • GILBAS very similar
    Dinant · since 1990
  • BALBAS very similar
    Brussel · since 1992
  • Sole trader very similar
    Other activities auxiliary to financial services, excluding insurance and pension funding · since 2023
Names that resemble it 3 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
  • BILBO similar
    General construction of residential buildings · Eeklo · since 2022
  • BILBON similar
    Office administrative and support services · Sint-Jans-Molenbeek · since 2020
  • BILBILO similarin bankruptcy or liquidation
    Limited-service restaurants, excluding mobile food services · Liège · since 2019

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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