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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.

“Overloop, Kim”

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.

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Same or very similar names

4 registered enterprises with a name easily confused with yours.

  • Sole trader same name
    Photography, excluding press photography · since 2024
  • OVERLOOP very similar
    Retail sale of information and communication equipment · Etterbeek · since 2016
  • Sole trader very similar
    Landscape service activities · since 2016
  • Sole trader very similar
    Photography, excluding press photography · since 2024
Names that resemble it 18 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
  • Sole trader similar
    since 2016
  • Sole trader similar
    Hairdressing and barber services · since 2012
  • Sole trader similar
    Retail sale of newspapers and periodicals · since 2001
  • Sole trader similar
    Manufacture of other builders' carpentry and joinery · since 2022
  • Sole trader similar
    Physiotherapy · since 1995
  • Sole trader similar
    Verhuur en lease van televisietoestellen en andere audio- en videoapparatuur · since 1989
  • Sole trader similar
    Business and other management consultancy · since 2016
  • Sole trader similar
    Nutrition and dietetics services · since 2017
  • Sole trader similar
    Office administrative and support services · since 2017
  • Sole trader similar
    Growing of vegetables, melons, roots and tubers · since 1987
  • Sole trader similar
    Retail sale of newspapers and periodicals · since 2023
  • Sole trader similar
    Activiteiten van persfotografen · since 2024
  • Sole trader similar
    Sports and recreation education · since 2020
  • Sole trader similar
    Photography, excluding press photography · since 2026
  • Sole trader similar
    since 1971
  • Sole trader similar
    Hairdressing and barber services · since 1990
  • OVER similar
    Other amusement and recreation activities · Waremme · since 2026
  • Over similarin bankruptcy or liquidation
    Abbreviation of Atletiekklub Overijse · Overijse · since 1984

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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