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.
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
1 registered enterprise with a name easily confused with yours.
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Specialist medical practice · Marche-en-Famenne · since 2003
Names that resemble it 40 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
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Full-service restaurants · Sint-Gillis (bij-Brussel) · since 1988
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Retail sale of bread and pastry (bakery outlets) · Brussel · since 1995
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Day spas, saunas and steam baths · since 1990
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Cafés and bars · since 2014
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Full-service restaurants · since 1981
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Retail sale of cosmetics and toilet articles · since 2010
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Agents in the wholesale of textiles, clothing, fur, footwear and leather goods · Temse · since 2024
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Name of an establishment of SOVONITO · Full-service restaurants · Chièvres · since 2025
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Full-service restaurants · since 2025
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Other legal services · since 2014
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since 1993
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Insurance agents and brokers · since 2007
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since 1988
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since 2016
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Performing arts by independent artists · since 2000
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General construction of residential buildings · since 2023
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Cafés and bars · Anderlecht · since 2005
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Mixed farming · since 1996
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since 1979
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Activities of building architects · since 2012
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Veterinary services · since 1998
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Agents in the wholesale of food, beverages and tobacco · since 2020
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Forging of metal · since 1994
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Event catering · Temse · since 2009
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Trade name of CABINET DENTAIRE SCHEUT · Anderlecht · since 2007
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since 2023
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since 2024
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Physiotherapy · Liège · since 2025
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Name of an establishment of EG Retail (Belgium) · Wholesale of solid, liquid and gaseous fuels and related products · Antwerpen · since 1969
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Name of an establishment of Stroom · Retail sale of other second-hand goods, excluding clothing · Aalst · since 1992
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Day spas, saunas and steam baths · since 2014
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since 1993
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since 2015
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Day spas, saunas and steam baths · since 2015
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Beauty care and other beauty treatments · since 2020
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since 2009
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Beauty care and other beauty treatments · since 2018
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Interior design · since 2024
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Physiotherapy · since 2025
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Activities of building architects · since 2025