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.
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
2 registered enterprises with a name easily confused with yours.
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Full-service restaurants · Knokke-Heist · since 2017
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Photography, excluding press photography · since 2012
Names that resemble it 24 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
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Real estate agency activities · Diksmuide · since 2019
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Business and other management consultancy · Elsene · since 2021
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Insurance agents and brokers · Huldenberg · since 2007
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Pajottegem · since 1990
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Engineering and related technical consultancy, excluding land surveyors · since 2020
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Abbreviation of Centre d'Actions sociales d'Angleur et Environs · Liège · since 1985
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General electrical installation work · Ranst · since 1989
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Name of an establishment of C.T. Management · Other non-specialised retail sale · Dalhem · since 1991
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EEMENS · since 2003
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Abbreviation of Centre d'action sociale "Anastasia" · Schaarbeek · since 2012
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Groothandel in spellen en speelgoed · Kortenberg · since 1998
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Real estate agency activities · Gent · since 2021
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General electrical installation work · since 2008
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Activities of head offices · Ieper · since 2025
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Vervaardiging van wapens en munitie · since 1981
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Retail sale of wines and spirits · Mol · since 2017
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Activities of holding companies · Enghien · since 2018
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General construction of residential buildings · Lennik · since 2023
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Day spas, saunas and steam baths · since 2023
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Name of an establishment of CAMSS · Vervaardiging van machines voor de productie van voedings- en genotmiddelen · Antwerpen · since 2006
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Elsene · since 1975
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Waterloo · since 1976
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Name of an establishment of CASA INTERNATIONAL · Retail sale of lighting equipment · Olen · since 1988
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General construction of residential buildings · Maasmechelen · since 2016