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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.

“Hesp, Mathilde”

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
    Reparatie en onderhoud van uurwerken en sieraden · since 2022
  • Sole trader very similar
    General medical practice · since 2023
  • Mathilde very similar
    Malle · since 2026
Names that resemble it 25 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
  • Sole trader similar
    since 2026
  • Sole trader similar
    Retail sale of meat and meat products, excluding game and poultry · since 2024
  • Sole trader similar
    Beauty care and other beauty treatments · since 2018
  • Sole trader similar
    Lease van intellectuele eigendom en vergelijkbare producten, met uitzondering van werken onder auteursrecht · since 2019
  • Sole trader similar
    Vervaardiging van maalderijproducten · since 2021
  • Sole trader similar
    Business and other management consultancy · since 2024
  • Sole trader similar
    Activities of building architects · since 2017
  • Sole trader similar
    Painting of buildings · since 2014
  • Sole trader similar
    Activities of building architects · since 2021
  • Sole trader similar
    Activities of lawyers · since 2019
  • Sole trader similar
    Activities of lawyers · since 2021
  • Sole trader similar
    Graphic design and visual communication · since 2023
  • Sole trader similar
    Other educational support services · since 2023
  • Sole trader similar
    since 2025
  • Sole trader similar
    Beauty care and other beauty treatments · since 2025
  • Mmmathilde similar
    Event catering · Gesves · since 2023
  • Sole trader similar
    Limited-service restaurants, excluding mobile food services · since 2026
  • Sole trader similar
    Growing of cereals (except rice), leguminous crops and oil seeds · since 2023
  • Sole trader similar
    Kinderopvang door onthaalouders · since 2018
  • Sole trader similar
    since 2011
  • Sole trader similar
    Computer consultancy and computer facilities management · since 2024
  • Sole trader similar
    Hairdressing and barber services · since 1985
  • Sole trader similar
    Office administrative and support services · since 2018
  • Sole trader similar
    Hairdressing and barber services · since 2018
  • Sole trader similar
    Hairdressing and barber services · since 2008

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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