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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.

“Goderis, Kevin”

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

3 registered enterprises with a name easily confused with yours.

  • Sole trader same name
    Painting of buildings · since 2009
  • GODERIS very similar
    Retail sale of bread and pastry (bakery outlets) · Veurne · since 2005
  • Sole trader very similar
    Other building cleaning and industrial cleaning · since 2018
Names that resemble it 22 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
  • GODEVIN similar
    Wholesale of beverages, general range · Antwerpen · since 1992
  • Sole trader similar
    Beauty care and other beauty treatments · since 2012
  • Sole trader similar
    Landscape service activities · since 2026
  • Sole trader similar
    Physiotherapy · since 1992
  • Sole trader similar
    Households as employers of domestic personnel · since 2017
  • Sole trader similar
    Sports and recreation education · since 2026
  • Sole trader similar
    since 2014
  • Sole trader similar
    Photography, excluding press photography · since 2016
  • Sole trader similar
    Varkensvetmesterijen · since 2017
  • Sole trader similar
    Landscape service activities · since 2019
  • Sole trader similar
    Holiday cottages, homes and apartments · since 2024
  • Sole trader similar
    Design of textile patterns, clothing, jewellery, furniture and decorative items · since 2020
  • Sole trader similar
    Performing arts by independent artists · since 2025
  • Sole trader similar
    General electrical installation work · since 2023
  • Sole trader similar
    Specialist medical practice · since 2000
  • Sole trader similar
    Retail sale of medical and orthopaedic goods, excluding prescription glasses and lenses · since 2005
  • Sole trader similar
    Nutrition and dietetics services · since 2023
  • GODERIM similar
    Antwerpen · since 1978
  • Sole trader similar
    Hairdressing and barber services · since 1992
  • Sole trader similar
    Growing of cereals (except rice), leguminous crops and oil seeds · since 2003
  • Sole trader similar
    since 2010
  • Sole trader similarin bankruptcy or liquidation
    since 2023

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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