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.
“OCLA”
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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Insurance agents and brokers · Pajottegem · since 2018
Names that resemble it 15 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
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Abbreviation of CREDIALYS · Verstrekken van hypothecair krediet · Huy · since 1948
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Abbreviation of Oogcentrum Lommel · Specialist medical practice · Lommel · since 2020
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Other legal services · Tervuren · since 2020
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Winning, behandeling en distributie van water · Oosterzele · since 2022
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Installation of electric heating, air conditioning, cooling and ventilation · Perwez · since 2009
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Engineering and related technical consultancy, excluding land surveyors · since 2015
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Specialist medical practice · since 2025
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Abbreviation of ORTHODONTIE STROMBEEK · Office administrative and support services · Grimbergen · since 1998
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Abbreviation of Collectif LISTENING · Visé · since 2014
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Knokke-Heist · since 1968
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Hotels and similar accommodation · Geel · since 1990
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Groothandel in sanitair · Kortrijk · since 1992
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Handelsbemiddeling in de groothandel in brandstoffen, ertsen, metalen en chemische producten · Diepenbeek · since 2013
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Activities of holding companies · Heusden-Zolder · since 2011
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Full-service restaurants · Sint-Lambrechts-Woluwe · since 2010