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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Activities of holding companies · Hoogstraten · since 2008
Names that resemble it 37 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
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Computer consultancy and computer facilities management · Lommel · since 2014
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Vervaardiging van consumentenelektronica · Lommel · since 2015
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Other information service activities · Nieuwerkerken (Limb.) · since 2021
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Other building finishing work · Etterbeek · since 2009
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Retail sale of flowers, plants, seeds and fertilisers · since 2010
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Abbreviation of NICETIME EMPOWERMENT ENCOUNTER · Antwerpen · since 2012
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Non-specialised retail sale with food, beverages or tobacco predominating · Houthalen-Helchteren · since 2006
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Abbreviation of Netwerk Emotioneel Lichaamswerk Vlaanderen · Nazareth-De Pinte · since 2006
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Demolition · since 2007
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Computer consultancy and computer facilities management · Leuven · since 2024
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Nursing and midwifery · since 2025
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Development of residential building projects · Brussel · since 2021
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Holiday cottages, homes and apartments · Zedelgem · since 2021
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since 2026
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Other business support services · Zemst · since 2016
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General electrical installation work · Anderlecht · since 2020
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Nursing and midwifery · since 2021
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Non-specialised retail sale with food, beverages or tobacco predominating · Zaventem · since 2022
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Washing and cleaning of motor vehicles · Asse · since 2022
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Name of an establishment of ONOB Food · Groothandel in vis en schaal- en weekdieren · Heist-op-den-Berg · since 2023
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since 1974
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since 1989
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Photography, excluding press photography · since 2017
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since 1968
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since 2025
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Manufacture of jewellery · since 2002
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Site preparation · since 2018
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General maintenance and repair of cars and light vans (up to 3.5 tonnes) · since 2017
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Advertising agencies · since 2020
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Business and other management consultancy · since 2021
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Psychology services · since 2023
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since 2026
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Sint-Martens-Latem · since 1998
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Nutrition and dietetics services · since 2022
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Computer programming · Ichtegem · since 2020
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Performing arts by independent artists · since 2024
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since 2024