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.
“GRABO”
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
10 registered enterprises with a name easily confused with yours.
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Plastering work · Mol · since 1987
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ECHTERNACH · since 2002
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Dental practice · Dilbeek · since 2005
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Advertising agencies · Gesves · since 2025
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Site preparation · Geraardsbergen · since 2019
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Landscape service activities · Herselt · since 2020
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Construction of roads and motorways · since 2009
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Business and other management consultancy · Oudenburg · since 1995
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Maasmechelen · since 2021
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Liège · since 1951
Names that resemble it 19 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
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Abbreviation of Groupe Recherche Action Biodiversité : Cellule d'Initiative et d'Appui aux Projets locaux · Marchin · since 1996
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Abbreviation of Genderrevealatomicbomb · Compositie van muziek · Leuven · since 2026
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Plastering work · since 2022
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Advertising agencies · Chaumont-Gistoux · since 1986
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Other non-specialised retail sale · Kortrijk · since 2025
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Web portal activities · Ieper · since 2026
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Abbreviation of Grondrecyclage Antwerpen · Materials recovery from waste · Gent · since 2017
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Demolition · since 2021
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Sint-Pieters-Woluwe · since 1999
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Boomkwekerijen, muv bosboomkwekerijen · Schoten · since 1998
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Site preparation · Hamme (Vl.) · since 2014
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Name of an establishment of BEFANA · Limited-service restaurants, excluding mobile food services · Sint-Gillis (bij-Brussel) · since 2022
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Other non-specialised retail sale · since 2025
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Business and other management consultancy · Leuven · since 2026
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Charleroi · since 2025
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Abbreviation of STEENHOUWERIJ E. RAEVEN EN M. BORGIONS · Cutting, shaping and finishing of stone · Aarschot · since 1974
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Development of residential building projects · Hoogstraten · since 2022
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Machining of metals · since 1988
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since 2020