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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.

“CANSAY”

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

4 registered enterprises with a name easily confused with yours.

  • CANSAY same name
    Hairdressing and barber services · Zaventem · since 2022
  • DansaY very similar
    Other sports activities · Vilvoorde · since 2015
  • HANSAY very similar
    Full-service restaurants · Brussel · since 2008
  • CANMAY very similar
    Business and other management consultancy · Antwerpen · since 2004
Names that resemble it 8 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
  • Sole trader similar
    Manufacture of dining room, living room, bedroom and bathroom furniture · since 2005
  • Sole trader similar
    Groothandel in papier- en kartonwaren · since 1996
  • Sole trader similar
    Web portal activities · since 2023
  • Sole trader similar
    Logistics services · since 2024
  • Canso VZW similar
    Name of an establishment of Organisatie voor Luchtverkeersleidingsorganisaties CANSO · Activities of business and employers' organisations · Soesterberg · since 2005
  • CANSO similar
    Abbreviation of Organisation des Services de la Navigation Aérienne Civils · MONTREAL · since 2025
  • Cantacansa similar
    Lierde · since 2020
  • Cans.nu similar
    Agents specialised in the wholesale of other particular products · Antwerpen · since 2023

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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