Is your company name still 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.
“MAERLIN”
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
10 registered enterprises with a name easily confused with yours.
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Schaarbeek · since 2003
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General electrical installation work · Hooglede · since 1989
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Retail sale of household furniture · Geraardsbergen · since 1989
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Elsene · since 1991
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Full-service restaurants · Chaudfontaine · since 2002
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Other postal and courier activities · Grobbendonk · since 2021
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Retail sale of flowers, plants, seeds and fertilisers · since 2022
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Detailhandel in vis en schaal- en weekdieren · Nieuwpoort · since 2003
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Activiteiten op het gebied van psychotherapie · since 2026
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Brussel · since 1986
Names that resemble it 6 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
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Retail sale of other second-hand goods, excluding clothing · Damme · since 1991
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Joinery installation · Genk · since 1996
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Development of residential building projects · Schilde · since 2016
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Full-service restaurants
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Dental practice · Hasselt · since 2023
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Name of an establishment of MALIN Agency · Agents in the wholesale of furniture, household goods and hardware · De Haan · since 2010
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.