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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.

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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.

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Same or very similar names

6 registered enterprises with a name easily confused with yours.

  • EXCEPT same name
    Retail sale of information and communication equipment · Wevelgem · since 1990
  • Exceptra very similar
    Freight transport by road · Eeklo · since 2018
  • EXCEPTIO very similar
    Full-service restaurants · Thuin · since 2011
  • Xcept very similar
    Roeselare · since 1997
  • EC-CEPT very similar
    Public relations and communication consultancy · Bornem · since 2021
  • EXCERT very similar
    Other business support services · Affligem · since 2023
Names that resemble it 18 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
  • EXCEPTION similar
    Retail sale of clothing and accessories for women, men, children and babies (general range) · Etterbeek · since 1984
  • Sole trader similar
    Washing and cleaning of motor vehicles · since 2018
  • Employment placement agencies · Etterbeek · since 1987
  • Sole trader similar
    Business and other management consultancy · since 2024
  • Sole trader similar
    Hairdressing and barber services · since 2004
  • EXCEX similar
    Renting and leasing of cars and light motor vehicles · Evere · since 2024
  • EXCESS similar
    Sports and recreation education · Meise · since 2000
  • Sole trader similar
    Hairdressing and barber services · since 1996
  • EXCESS similar
    General electrical installation work · Schilde · since 2022
  • Sole trader similar
    Day spas, saunas and steam baths · since 2010
  • Youth work associations · Sambreville · since 2004
  • EXCEED similar
    Insurance agents and brokers · Kalmthout · since 2008
  • Sole trader similar
    Beauty care and other beauty treatments · since 2024
  • Manufacture of other builders' carpentry and joinery · Thimister-Clermont · since 2026
  • Sole trader similar
    Public relations and communication consultancy · since 2007
  • CEPT similar
    Liège · since 1994
  • CEPT similar
    Abbreviation of Cercle étudiant paramédical de Tournai · Péruwelz · since 2010
  • Excel similarin bankruptcy or liquidation
    Gent · since 1988

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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