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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.

“Neukermans, Patsy”

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

1 registered enterprise with a name easily confused with yours.

  • Sole trader same name
    Other non-specialised retail sale · since 2010
Names that resemble it 27 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
  • Sole trader similar
    General electrical installation work · since 2021
  • Sole trader similar
    Sports and recreation education · since 2026
  • Sole trader similar
    Wholesale of beverages, general range · since 2020
  • Sole trader similar
    Real estate agency activities · since 2022
  • Sole trader similar
    Other personal services · since 2013
  • Sole trader similar
    Combined facilities support activities · since 1997
  • Sole trader similar
    Retail sale of fruit and vegetables · since 2020
  • Sole trader similar
    General electrical installation work · since 2020
  • Sole trader similar
    Other publishing activities, excluding software publishing · since 2024
  • Sole trader similar
    Advertising agencies · since 2024
  • Sole trader similar
    Other non-specialised retail sale · since 2025
  • Sole trader similar
    Retail sale of women's outerwear · since 2026
  • Sole trader similar
    since 2016
  • Sole trader similar
    since 1987
  • Sole trader similar
    Literary creation · since 2016
  • Sole trader similar
    Nursing and midwifery · since 2021
  • Real estate agency activities · Gent · since 2008
  • Sole trader similar
    Beauty care and other beauty treatments · since 1993
  • Sole trader similar
    Growing of cereals (except rice), leguminous crops and oil seeds · since 2017
  • Sole trader similar
    Photography, excluding press photography · since 2018
  • Sole trader similar
    since 1989
  • Sole trader similar
    since 1995
  • Sole trader similar
    Washing and cleaning of motor vehicles · since 2025
  • Sole trader similar
    Beauty care and other beauty treatments · since 1995
  • Sole trader similar
    Beauty care and other beauty treatments · since 2022
  • Sole trader similar
    since 2026
  • Sole trader similar
    Physiotherapy · 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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