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.
“SAFINA”
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
21 registered enterprises with a name easily confused with yours.
-
Non-specialised retail sale with food, beverages or tobacco predominating · Antwerpen · since 1993
-
Antwerpen · since 1996
-
Other financial services
-
Abbreviation of SAFINA INVEST · Elsene · since 2009
-
Public relations and communication consultancy · since 2024
-
Wholesale of industrial chemicals · Nieuwpoort · since 1986
-
Abbreviation of SAFRICAS INTERNATIONAL · since 2015
-
Detailhandel in zuivelproducten en eieren · since 2025
-
Name of an establishment · Wholesale of meat and meat products, excluding game and poultry · Menen · since 1980
-
Name of an establishment · Non-specialised wholesale trade · Houthalen-Helchteren · since 2014
-
Name of an establishment · Computer consultancy and computer facilities management · Temse · since 2015
-
Hasselt · since 2020
-
Vorst · since 2009
-
Name of an establishment · Real estate agency activities · Waremme · since 2004
-
Beauty care and other beauty treatments · since 2024
-
Full-service restaurants · Damme · since 2025
-
Name of an establishment · Business and other management consultancy · Oudergem · since 2025
-
Abbreviation of Copafia · Brussel · since 1968
-
Gent · since 1965
-
Full-service restaurants · Maaseik · since 2014
-
since 2021
Names that resemble it 44 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
-
Other postal and courier activities · since 2026
-
Renting and operating of own or leased non-residential real estate, excluding land · Waasmunster · since 1980
-
Activities of holding companies · Gent · since 1999
-
Advertising agencies
-
Other building finishing work · since 2013
-
Other non-specialised retail sale · since 2019
-
Assenede · since 2017
-
On-demand passenger transport by chauffeured vehicle · since 2021
-
Etterbeek · since 2022
-
General construction of other non-residential buildings · Zottegem · since 2007
-
Property management for co-owned buildings (syndics) · since 2025
-
Non-scheduled passenger transport by road · since 2025
-
Retail sale of clothing and accessories for women, men, children and babies (general range) · since 2026
-
Cafés and bars · Anderlecht · since 2026
-
Retail sale of other household articles · since 2026
-
Other postal and courier activities · since 2026
-
Sint-Lambrechts-Woluwe · since 1992
-
Full-service restaurants · Westerlo · since 2019
-
Households as employers of domestic personnel · since 2021
-
General electrical installation work · Leuven · since 2009
-
Elsene · since 2011
-
Logistics services · Antwerpen · since 2012
-
Abbreviation of Société anonyme de Fabrication et d'Import - Export · Anderlecht · since 1979
-
Renting and operating of own or leased residential real estate, excluding social housing · Brakel · since 1990
-
Etterbeek · since 1991
-
Retail sale of watches and jewellery · Antwerpen · since 1994
-
Wholesale of machine tools · Knokke-Heist · since 1996
-
Urban planning and landscape architecture · Tournai · since 2003
-
Name of an establishment of LAURRIS · Cafés and bars · Aalst · since 2023
-
Full-service restaurants · since 1977
-
Name of an establishment of TITO 97 · Cafés and bars · Brussel · since 2024
-
Plumbing work · since 2025
-
Vervaardiging van andere voedingsmiddelen, n.e.g. · Elsene · since 1989
-
Wholesale of non-electrical household articles · Anderlecht · since 1994
-
Buying and selling of own real estate · Izegem · since 1999
-
Office administrative and support services · Merksplas · since 2001
-
Abbreviation of SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY FOR INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL REHABILITATION · Boortmeerbeek · since 2001
-
Scheduled passenger transport by road · Brussel · since 2025
-
Name of an establishment · Business and other management consultancy · Mortsel · since 2026
-
Abbreviation of Société Anversoise Foncière et Industrielle · Liège · since 1927
-
Abbreviation of Secrétariat d'Apprentissage et de Formation des Indépendants · Seraing · since 1990
-
Other building cleaning and industrial cleaning · since 2003
-
Abbreviation of SERVICE D'ACCUEIL, DE FORMATION ET D'INTEGRATION PAR LE TRAVAIL · Yvoir · since 1984
-
Retail sale of clothing and accessories for women, men, children and babies (general range) · Antwerpen · since 2012