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.
“NICKENS”
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
2 registered enterprises with a name easily confused with yours.
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On-demand passenger transport by chauffeured vehicle · Vilvoorde · since 1990
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Other retail sale of food · since 1989
Names that resemble it 34 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
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Limited-service restaurants, excluding mobile food services · Menen · since 1994
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Advertising agencies · Zaventem · since 2024
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Certified accountants and tax accountants · Oudenaarde · since 1987
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Vorst · since 1990
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Advertising agencies · since 1991
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General electrical installation work · since 2019
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Agents specialised in the wholesale of other particular products · Tremelo · since 2003
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Name of an establishment of Qanyon · Computer programming · Wuustwezel · since 2017
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Computer consultancy and computer facilities management · Sint-Katelijne-Waver · since 2016
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Electrical installation work in industrial facilities · Zaventem · since 2024
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Aalst · since 1995
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Sports and recreation education · Geel · since 2023
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Agents in non-specialised wholesale trade · since 2009
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Other activities auxiliary to financial services, excluding insurance and pension funding · Schilde · since 2024
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Sports and recreation education · since 2021
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Vervaardiging van metalen deuren en vensters · since 2018
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Other specialised construction activities · since 2021
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Computer consultancy and computer facilities management · Westerlo · since 2022
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Growing of cereals (except rice), leguminous crops and oil seeds · since 2015
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Other software publishing · Elsene · since 2011
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Limited-service restaurants, excluding mobile food services · Kapellen · since 1976
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Other information service activities · Arendonk · since 2017
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Growing of cereals (except rice), leguminous crops and oil seeds · since 2018
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Business and other management consultancy · Oudenaarde · since 2018
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Business and other management consultancy · Dilbeek · since 2018
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Other specialised construction activities · since 2023
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Beauty care and other beauty treatments · since 2020
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Floor and wall tiling · since 2021
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Performing arts by independent artists · since 2023
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Detailhandel in onderkleding, lingerie en strand- en badkleding · since 2019
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General construction of residential buildings · Herent · since 2012
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Ukkel · since 2008
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Public relations and communication consultancy · Sint-Katelijne-Waver · since 2024
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Beauty care and other beauty treatments · since 2026