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.
“Carpinus”
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
8 registered enterprises with a name easily confused with yours.
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Buying and selling of own real estate · Waasmunster · since 1988
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Landscape service activities · Diest · since 2000
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Lokeren · since 2024
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Sanering en ander afvalbeheer · Seraing · since 2024
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Activities of head offices · Brugge · since 2020
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Landscape service activities · since 2016
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Service activities incidental to land transportation · Oosterzele · since 2026
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Development of residential building projects · Laarne · since 2021
Names that resemble it 8 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
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Retail sale of clothing and accessories for women, men, children and babies (general range) · since 2005
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Activities of holding companies · Ingelmunster · since 2006
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Landscape service activities · Beersel · since 2021
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Nutrition and dietetics services · since 2003
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Name of an establishment of Baliza · Detailhandel in lederwaren en reisartikelen · Elsene · since 2023
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Abbreviation of Centre d'Adaptation et de Reclassement professionnel · Temporary employment agencies and other provision of personnel · Philippeville · since 1967
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since 2022
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Other building finishing work · since 2024