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.
“HANOU”
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
6 registered enterprises with a name easily confused with yours.
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Non-specialised retail sale with food, beverages or tobacco predominating · Ingelmunster · since 2016
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Villers-le-Bouillet · since 2001
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Non-specialised retail sale with food, beverages or tobacco predominating · Antwerpen · since 2024
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Abbreviation of Huisartsen Noord-Oost Limburg · Kinrooi · since 1992
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Retail sale of flowers, plants, seeds and fertilisers · Vorst · since 1992
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Cafés and bars · Sint-Jans-Molenbeek · since 2025
Names that resemble it 29 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
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Vermogensbeheer · Waregem · since 2014
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Specialist medical practice · Soignies · since 2012
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Plumbing work · Silly · since 2001
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Computer programming · Tessenderlo-Ham · since 2017
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Wholesale of fruit and vegetables, excluding potatoes · Ieper · since 2017
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Business and other management consultancy · Bonheiden · since 2017
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Business and other management consultancy · since 2021
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Vermogensbeheer · Hamont-Achel · since 2021
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Other non-specialised retail sale · since 2025
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Ukkel · since 1993
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Event catering · since 2017
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since 2011
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Limited-service restaurants, excluding mobile food services · Mortsel · since 2024
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Limited-service restaurants, excluding mobile food services · De Panne · since 2025
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Hairdressing and barber services · since 2026
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Renting and operating of own or leased residential real estate, excluding social housing · Merchtem · since 1974
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Brussel · since 1991
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Retail sale of household furniture · Turnhout · since 2003
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Beerse · since 2017
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Retail sale of clothing and accessories for women, men, children and babies (general range) · Thimister-Clermont · since 2021
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Business and other management consultancy · Antwerpen · since 2010
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Installation of electric heating, air conditioning, cooling and ventilation · Dessel · since 2011
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Abbreviation of HANENVERBOND DER BEIDE VLAANDEREN · Damme · since 1955
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Real estate appraisal on a fee or contract basis · since 2026
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Business and other management consultancy · Waregem · since 2015
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since 2015
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Agents in non-specialised wholesale trade · Saint-Ghislain · since 2014
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Wavre · since 1996
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Asse · since 1994