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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.

“HerrMax”

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

2 registered enterprises with a name easily confused with yours.

  • HerrMax same name
    Materials recovery from waste · since 2015
  • HERMAX very similar
    Limited-service restaurants, excluding mobile food services · Herstal · since 2021
Names that resemble it 12 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
  • Sole trader similar
    Agents and managers of artists, athletes and other public figures · since 2025
  • Sole trader similar
    Physiotherapy · since 2024
  • Sole trader similar
    Joinery installation · since 2022
  • Sole trader similar
    Repair and maintenance of electrical equipment · since 2014
  • Sole trader similar
    Tattoo and piercing services · since 2019
  • HERMA similar
    since 1993
  • HERMA similar
    Limited-service restaurants, excluding mobile food services · Sint-Truiden · since 1993
  • Sole trader similar
    Day spas, saunas and steam baths · since 2013
  • HERMA similar
    Business and other management consultancy · Bertem · since 2013
  • HEMAX similar
    Buying and selling of own real estate · Antwerpen · since 2016
  • HERAX similar
    Buying and selling of own real estate · Herentals · since 2020
  • Sole trader similar
    Production of cinema films · 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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