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Is your company name still free?

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.

“PAWI”

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.

  • PAWI same name
    Retail sale of cosmetics and toilet articles · Geetbets · since 1991
Names that resemble it 11 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
  • PAWIL similar
    Renting and operating of own or leased residential real estate, excluding social housing · Brasschaat · since 2004
  • P.A.W. similar
    Etterbeek · since 1996
  • P.A.W. similar
    Abbreviation of PLATEFORME DES ALE WALLONNES · Other membership organisations · Namur · since 2012
  • Sole trader similar
    Roofing work · since 2013
  • Sole trader similar
    Drukken van dagbladen · since 2016
  • PAGAWI similar
    Limited-service restaurants, excluding mobile food services · Nivelles · since 2017
  • PAW similar
    Abbreviation of PROFESSIONEEL ALGEMEEN WATERDICHTING · Antwerpen · since 2026
  • PAW IMMO similar
    Buying and selling of own real estate · Sint-Lambrechts-Woluwe · since 2018
  • PAWA similar
    Business and other management consultancy · Elsene · since 2022
  • PAWK similar
    Computer consultancy and computer facilities management · Tielt-Winge · since 2009
  • DIPAWI similar
    Business and other management consultancy · Nijlen · since 1993

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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