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.
“Hoona”
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
8 registered enterprises with a name easily confused with yours.
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Renting and operating of own or leased non-residential real estate, excluding land · Wavre · since 2023
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Scheduled passenger transport by road · Brussel · since 1992
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Employment placement agencies · Sint-Lambrechts-Woluwe · since 2000
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Groothandel in weefsels, stoffen en fournituren · Mechelen · since 2015
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Beauty care and other beauty treatments · since 2016
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Name of an establishment of SMOOVY · Other construction installation · Sint-Lambrechts-Woluwe · since 2020
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Business and other management consultancy · Moorslede · since 2023
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Event catering · since 2025
Names that resemble it 10 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
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Abbreviation of Homo en Natura · Tielt-Winge · since 1970
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Abbreviation of HOPE OF NATIONS · Anderlecht · since 2011
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Non-specialised retail sale with food, beverages or tobacco predominating · Mechelen · since 2024
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Other building cleaning and industrial cleaning · Seraing · since 2020
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Beauty care and other beauty treatments · since 1993
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Other non-specialised retail sale · since 2010
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Retail sale of household textiles and bedding · Gent · since 1987
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Abbreviation of The Line Up Oona · Sint-Gillis (bij-Brussel) · since 1989
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Activities of holding companies · Gistel · since 2014
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Other non-specialised retail sale · since 2023