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.
“Dries, Tim”
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
14 registered enterprises with a name easily confused with yours.
-
Other non-specialised retail sale · since 2017
-
Other tax advisory services · Heuvelland · since 2021
-
Name of an establishment of DRIES-HULSMANS · Funeral services · Balen · since 1996
-
Full-service restaurants · Leuven · since 2002
-
General maintenance and repair of cars and light vans (up to 3.5 tonnes) · Dessel · since 2013
-
Tyre services · since 1986
-
General construction of residential buildings · since 2018
-
Landscape service activities · since 2020
-
Activities of holding companies · Gent · since 2021
-
Other retail sale of new goods · since 2022
-
Business and other management consultancy · Pepingen · since 2023
-
Raising of dairy cattle · Ravels · since 2006
-
Graphic design and visual communication · since 2026
-
Other professional, scientific and technical activities · since 2026
Names that resemble it 35 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
-
Wholesale of electrical household appliances and audio-video equipment · since 2025
-
Cafés and bars · since 2026
-
Retail sale of other second-hand goods, excluding clothing · since 2018
-
Pet care services, excluding veterinary services · since 2019
-
General construction of residential buildings · Edegem · since 2026
-
Machining of metals · since 1990
-
Other personal services · since 2021
-
Business and other management consultancy · Destelbergen · since 2001
-
Reparatie en onderhoud van huishoudapparaten en van werktuigen voor gebruik in huis en tuin · Zandhoven · since 2022
-
Full-service restaurants · since 2023
-
Raising of sheep and goats · since 1989
-
Support activities for crop production · Amel · since 2020
-
Computer consultancy and computer facilities management · since 2021
-
Hairdressing and barber services · since 2021
-
Other business support services · since 2023
-
Business and other management consultancy · Leopoldsburg · since 2023
-
Day spas, saunas and steam baths · since 2025
-
General electrical installation work · Pelt · since 1986
-
Retail sale of bicycles · Lille · since 1987
-
Funeral services · Tongeren-Borgloon · since 1988
-
Wholesale of other food products · Herentals · since 1988
-
Other business support services · Waregem · since 1989
-
Wholesale of cars and light vans (up to 3.5 tonnes) · Genk · since 1997
-
Other business support services · since 2013
-
Removal services · Lokeren · since 2015
-
Risk and damage evaluation · Haaltert · since 2022
-
Hairdressing and barber services · Sint-Gillis (bij-Brussel) · since 2009
-
Boom · since 1991
-
Artisanal bread and fresh pastry making · Antwerpen · since 1994
-
Other building finishing work · Haaltert · since 2017
-
Abbreviation of DR Investment Management · Liège · since 2019
-
Activities of holding companies · since 2023
-
Abbreviation of D'Ieteren Services · Factoring · Elsene · since 2005
-
General electrical installation work · Brasschaat · since 2025
-
Pelt · since 2006