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
7 registered enterprises with a name easily confused with yours.
-
Buying and selling of own real estate · Zottegem · since 2016
-
Public relations and communication consultancy · Sint-Gillis-Waas · since 2017
-
Development of residential building projects · Poperinge · since 2024
-
Activities of holding companies · Ninove · since 1985
-
Activities of holding companies · Beringen · since 1993
-
Limited-service restaurants, excluding mobile food services · Kortrijk · since 1997
-
General electrical installation work · Kortrijk · since 2026
Names that resemble it 52 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
-
Full-service restaurants · Blankenberge · since 2017
-
Full-service restaurants · Turnhout · since 2024
-
Raising of horses and other equines · Oosterzele · since 1991
-
Other education · since 2023
-
Households as employers of domestic personnel · since 2014
-
Activities of holding companies · Anzegem · since 2017
-
General maintenance and repair of cars and light vans (up to 3.5 tonnes) · since 1988
-
Real estate agency activities · Schoten · since 2022
-
Business and other management consultancy · Nijlen · since 2010
-
Physiotherapy · since 1993
-
since 1996
-
Other non-specialised retail sale · since 2026
-
since 1989
-
since 1989
-
Mixed farming · since 2012
-
Other business support services · since 2019
-
Agents and managers of artists, athletes and other public figures · since 2021
-
Travel agency activities · since 2004
-
since 2023
-
Households as employers of domestic personnel · since 2025
-
Other human health activities · since 2025
-
Abbreviation of MATT FOOD · Full-service restaurants · Sint-Niklaas · since 2021
-
Painting of buildings · since 2021
-
Post-production of films, video and television programmes · Zwevegem · since 2022
-
Sports and recreation education · since 2025
-
since 1984
-
Landscape service activities · since 2017
-
Business and other management consultancy · since 2017
-
since 2016
-
since 2020
-
Growing of cereals (except rice), leguminous crops and oil seeds · since 1995
-
Other retail sale of food · since 2022
-
Physiotherapy · since 1990
-
Sports and recreation education · since 2024
-
Verhuur en lease van televisietoestellen en andere audio- en videoapparatuur · since 2026
-
Andere vervoerondersteunende activiteiten · since 2026
-
Name of an establishment of GARAGE MATTOZZA · Non-specialised retail sale with food, beverages or tobacco predominating · Walcourt · since 1983
-
Households as employers of domestic personnel · since 2014
-
Full-service restaurants · since 2017
-
Driving schools for cars and motorcycles · since 2013
-
since 2015
-
since 1992
-
Other building cleaning and industrial cleaning · since 2019
-
Abbreviation of Advocatenkantoor Matton Willem · Activities of lawyers · Leuven · since 2019
-
Cafés and bars · Brussel · since 2019
-
Uitgeverijen van muziekopnamen · since 2022
-
Business and other management consultancy · Hasselt · since 2021
-
Computer consultancy and computer facilities management · since 2021
-
Name of an establishment of van den Boogert · Full-service restaurants · Antwerpen · since 2008
-
Renting and operating of own or leased non-residential real estate, excluding land · since 2005
-
Nutrition and dietetics services · De Panne · since 2023
-
since 2021