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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.

“IVEB”

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

1 registered enterprise with a name easily confused with yours.

  • IVEB same name
    Materials recovery from waste · Wuustwezel · since 2001
Names that resemble it 15 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
  • IVEBO similar
    Activities of building architects · Kontich · since 2025
  • IVEBICA similar
    Abbreviation of Intergemeentelijke Vereniging voor Bibliotheekwerking, Cultuur en Academie voor Deeltijds Kunstonderwijs · Activiteiten van bibliotheken · Hemiksem · since 2003
  • IVEA similar
    Braives · since 1994
  • IVEN similar
    Wholesale of electrical household appliances and audio-video equipment · Houthalen-Helchteren · since 2003
  • Ivex BV similar
    Moerdijk · since 2015
  • IVER similar
    Other business support services · Antwerpen · since 2017
  • IVEX similar
    Computer programming · Leuven · since 2017
  • I-Vet similar
    Veterinary services · Ichtegem · since 2019
  • I-VEX similar
    Risk and damage evaluation · Blégny · since 2020
  • Sole trader similar
    Other non-specialised retail sale · since 2021
  • iVES similar
    Abbreviation of ingenieursbureau voor Veiligheid, Energie en Stabiliteit · Engineering and related technical consultancy, excluding land surveyors · Kruisem · since 2008
  • IveM similar
    Temporary employment agencies and other provision of personnel · Gent · since 2024
  • FIVE B similar
    Limited-service restaurants, excluding mobile food services · Sint-Gillis (bij-Brussel) · since 2020
  • SHIVEB similar
    Name of UNION and CONFEDERATE - Trade · Agents in non-specialised wholesale trade · Waterloo · since 1988
  • IVEA similarin bankruptcy or liquidation
    Abbreviation of IMPORTATION DE VINS ET ALIMENTATION · Sint-Pieters-Woluwe · since 1981

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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