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
25 registered enterprises with a name easily confused with yours.
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Groothandel in machines, werktuigen en toebehoren voor de landbouw · Lendelede · since 1982
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Activities of holding companies · Mouscron · since 1996
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Wortegem-Petegem · since 1998
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Business and other management consultancy · Antwerpen · since 2003
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Advertising agencies · Mol · since 2023
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Vervaardiging van houten emballage · since 2026
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since 1988
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Other building cleaning and industrial cleaning · since 1983
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Activities of lawyers · since 2010
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since 2022
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Physiotherapy · since 2006
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Name of an establishment of Gemeente Tessenderlo-Ham · Afvalwaterafvoer · Tessenderlo-Ham · since 1977
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Abbreviation of Jeugd- en Buurthuis De Zille · Brugge · since 1979
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Buying and selling of own real estate · Antwerpen · since 1984
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Retail sale of medical and orthopaedic goods, excluding prescription glasses and lenses · Liège · since 1991
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Name of an establishment of R & H · Limited-service restaurants, excluding mobile food services · Arendonk · since 1999
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Abbreviation of ADVOCATENKANTOOR DEVILLE · Activities of lawyers · Bonheiden · since 2003
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Growing of cereals (except rice), leguminous crops and oil seeds · since 2015
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Freight transport by road · Zaventem · since 2010
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Full-service restaurants · Hamme (Vl.) · since 2012
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Production of electricity from non-renewable sources · Hooglede · since 2012
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Floor and wall tiling · Châtelet · since 2012
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Mixed farming · since 2006
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Manufacture of dining room, living room, bedroom and bathroom furniture · Nijlen · since 2024
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Business and other management consultancy · Frasnes-lez-Anvaing · since 2024
Names that resemble it 37 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
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since 2013
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Office administrative and support services · since 2015
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Full-service restaurants · Antwerpen · since 2008
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Wholesale of live animals · La Roche-en-Ardenne · since 1982
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Freight transport by road · Gent · since 2021
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Other retail sale of new goods · since 2014
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Design of textile patterns, clothing, jewellery, furniture and decorative items · since 2015
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Sports and recreation education · since 2019
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Freight transport by road · since 2020
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Computer consultancy and computer facilities management · Maldegem · since 2022
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Specialist medical practice · since 1996
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Retail sale of women's outerwear · Knokke-Heist · since 2011
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Construction of roads and motorways · Maldegem · since 1979
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Retail sale of bread and pastry (bakery outlets) · Halle · since 1998
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Physiotherapy · since 2017
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since 2019
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Vermogensbeheer · since 2021
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Hairdressing and barber services · since 2021
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Physiotherapy · since 2005
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Renting and operating of own or leased residential real estate, excluding social housing · since 2013
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Other manufacturing not elsewhere classified · since 1987
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Landscape service activities · since 2020
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since 2021
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Performing arts by independent artists · since 2023
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Manufacture of other builders' carpentry and joinery · since 2023
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since 1985
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Specialist medical practice · since 2004
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since 1983
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since 1989
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Urban planning and landscape architecture · since 2024
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Manufacture of cocoa, chocolate and sugar confectionery · Beveren-Kruibeke-Zwijndrecht · since 1999
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Households as employers of domestic personnel · since 2022
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Performing arts by independent artists · since 2004
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Specialised image, lighting and sound technical services · since 2025
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Raising of sheep and goats · Arendonk · since 2019
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Other non-specialised retail sale · Ukkel · since 2020