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.
“LE CODE BAR”
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
10 registered enterprises with a name easily confused with yours.
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Limited-service restaurants, excluding mobile food services · since 2014
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Cafés and bars · since 2010
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Name of an establishment of DORANGER · Limited-service restaurants, excluding mobile food services · Brussel · since 2025
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Name of an establishment of TAVERNE V.G. · Limited-service restaurants, excluding mobile food services · Verviers · since 2015
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Full-service restaurants · Ohey · since 2010
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Name of an establishment of L'EQUIPE · Activiteiten van psychiatrische ziekenhuizen · Anderlecht · since 1963
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Abbreviation of COLLECTIF DES ORGANISATIONS DEMOCRATIQUES ET PATRIOTIQUES DE LA DIASPORA CAMEROUNAISE · Brussel · since 2007
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Name of an establishment of CODE EVENT · Cafés and bars · Saint-Hubert · since 2015
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Cafés and bars · La Louvière · since 1994
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Retail sale of fruit and vegetables · Nieuwerkerken (Limb.) · since 2021
Names that resemble it 15 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
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Painting of buildings · since 2017
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Cafés and bars · Brussel · since 2008
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Limited-service restaurants, excluding mobile food services · since 2017
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Beauty care and other beauty treatments · since 2024
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since 2002
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Beauty care and other beauty treatments · Pepingen · since 1995
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Name of an establishment of LECO COP · Renting and operating of own or leased residential real estate, excluding social housing · Brugge · since 2017
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Machining of metals · since 2020
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Business and other management consultancy · Temse · since 2022
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Schilde · since 2003
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Limited-service restaurants, excluding mobile food services · Mechelen · since 2005
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Joinery installation · Lievegem · since 2026
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Cafés and bars · Quaregnon · since 2020
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Limited-service restaurants, excluding mobile food services · since 2019
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Abbreviation of Ligue de l'Enseignement communal officiel de et a La Hestre · Manage · since 1970