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
51 registered enterprises with a name easily confused with yours.
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Plumbing work · Anderlecht · since 1980
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Buying and selling of own real estate · Aalst · since 1994
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Full-service restaurants · Blankenberge · since 1996
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Retail sale of meat and meat products, excluding game and poultry · Lennik · since 1997
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Handel in elektriciteit · since 2022
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since 1986
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Retail sale of cosmetics and toilet articles · since 2015
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Advertising agencies · since 2024
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since 1987
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Activities of building architects · since 2007
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Support activities for animal production · since 2024
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since 2014
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Other amusement and recreation activities · since 1971
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Groothandel in machines, werktuigen en toebehoren voor de landbouw · Lessines · since 2015
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Retail sale of solid, liquid and gaseous fuels, excluding motor fuels · since 2015
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Other amusement and recreation activities · since 2018
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Day spas, saunas and steam baths · since 2018
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Photography, excluding press photography · since 2019
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Computer consultancy and computer facilities management · since 2021
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Specialist medical practice · since 1979
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Other business support services · since 2009
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News agency activities · since 2005
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since 2023
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since 2024
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Households as employers of domestic personnel · since 2026
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Business and other management consultancy · Balen · since 2025
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Construction of roads and motorways · Waregem · since 2001
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since 1998
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Nursing and midwifery · since 2015
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Wholesale of perfume and cosmetics · since 2020
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Wired, wireless and satellite telecommunications · since 2021
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Activities of building architects · since 2009
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since 2010
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Landscape service activities · since 2005
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Office administrative and support services · since 2025
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Bemiddelingsactiviteiten voor de gespecialiseerde detailhandel · since 2026
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since 1994
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since 2015
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since 1995
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since 2017
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Plastering work · since 2021
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Vervaardiging van kantoor- en winkelmeubelen · since 2021
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Joinery installation · since 2021
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Activities of lawyers · since 2022
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Specialist medical practice · since 1998
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since 2024
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since 2025
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Business and other management consultancy · since 2026
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Beauty care and other beauty treatments · since 1987
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Photography, excluding press photography · since 1991
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Roofing work · since 2019
Names that resemble it 17 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
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Groothandel in reinigingsmiddelen · Quaregnon · since 1984
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Groothandel in metalen en metaalertsen · Merchtem · since 1988
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Specialist medical practice · Waasmunster · since 2023
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Pet care services, excluding veterinary services · since 2015
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Other education · since 2022
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Trade name of SWISS DENTAL · Rijeka · since 2014
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Abbreviation of DOO.COOP · Business and other management consultancy · Kapelle-op-den-Bos · since 2023
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Advertising agencies · since 2026
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Growing of cereals (except rice), leguminous crops and oil seeds · since 1999
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Retail sale of household textiles and bedding · Wemmel · since 1970
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Site preparation · Hasselt · since 1999
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Painting of buildings · Putte · since 2017
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Antwerpen · since 2010
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On-demand passenger transport by chauffeured vehicle · since 2005
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Construction of roads and motorways · since 2006
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Raising of dairy cattle · Brecht · since 2006
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Retail sale of footwear · Sambreville · since 2012