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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.

“Echanges”

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.

Same or very similar names

5 registered enterprises with a name easily confused with yours.

Names that resemble it 14 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
  • Performing arts by artistic ensembles · Olne · since 2020
  • General construction of other non-residential buildings · Wemmel · since 2023
  • Walhain · since 2024
  • Sole trader similar
    Agents specialised in the wholesale of other particular products · since 2019
  • CHANGE similar
    Cafés and bars · Antwerpen · since 2000
  • CHANGE similar
    Real estate agency activities · Brussel · since 2001
  • CHANGE similar
    Sint-Joost-ten-Node · since 2013
  • CHANGE similar
    Bosbouw en bosbouwactiviteiten · Libramont-Chevigny · since 2015
  • Change similar
    Abbreviation of Change-Credal Social Innovation Fund · Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve · since 2019
  • CHANGE similar
    Property management for co-owned buildings (syndics) · Incourt · since 2008
  • Change similar
    Name of an establishment of CHANGE THE WORD · Uitgeven van tijdschriften · Herent · since 2010
  • Change! similar
    Activities of lawyers · Antwerpen · since 2025
  • CHANGE similar
    Abbreviation of CHANGE 3600 · Genk · since 2026
  • Interéchanges similarin bankruptcy or liquidation
    Charleroi · 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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