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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.

“Mathys, Johnny”

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

6 registered enterprises with a name easily confused with yours.

  • Sole trader same name
    Tyre services · since 2024
  • Mathys Johny very similar
    Physiotherapy · Bierbeek · since 1987
  • Sole trader very similar
    since 1989
  • Sole trader very similar
    since 2003
  • MATHYS very similar
    General construction of residential buildings · Evergem · since 1988
  • Sole trader very similar
    Inland freight water transport · since 2009
Names that resemble it 16 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
  • Sole trader similar
    Mixed farming · since 1990
  • Sole trader similar
    Bricklaying and masonry work · since 2009
  • Sole trader similar
    since 1987
  • Sole trader similar
    Mixed farming · since 1971
  • Sole trader similar
    Other sports activities · since 1986
  • Sole trader similar
    Growing of cereals (except rice), leguminous crops and oil seeds · since 1993
  • Sole trader similar
    Business and other management consultancy · since 2018
  • Sole trader similar
    Forging of metal · since 2021
  • Sole trader similar
    Beauty care and other beauty treatments · since 2025
  • Sole trader similar
    Joinery installation · since 2016
  • Sole trader similar
    Groothandel in ijzer- en staalschroot en in oude non-ferrometalen · since 1976
  • Sole trader similar
    Agents in non-specialised wholesale trade · since 2023
  • Sole trader similar
    News agency activities · since 2017
  • Sole trader similar
    since 2013
  • Sole trader similar
    Photography, excluding press photography · since 1998
  • Sole trader similar
    Business and other management consultancy · since 2005

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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