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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.

“Labarque, Michael”

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
    Landscape service activities · since 2014
  • MICHAEL very similar
    Schaarbeek · since 1986
  • MICHAEL very similar
    Riemst · since 1996
Names that resemble it 8 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
  • Sole trader similar
    Landscape service activities · since 2025
  • Landscape service activities · Gouvy · since 2004
  • Sole trader similar
    since 1983
  • Sole trader similar
    Installation of electric heating, air conditioning, cooling and ventilation · since 2011
  • Labarque DD similar
    Painting of buildings · Vleteren · since 2011
  • Sole trader similar
    Painting of buildings · since 2018
  • Sole trader similar
    Beauty care and other beauty treatments · since 2023
  • Sole trader similar
    Manufacture of metal structures and parts of structures · since 1998

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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