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Name check

Compared with the KBO register · free

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.

“SOPHOLD”

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.

  • SOPHOLD same name
    Activities of holding companies · Antwerpen · since 2019
Names that resemble it 16 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
  • Sophos B.V. similar
    Wholesale of information and communication equipment · Hengelo · since 1988
  • SOPHOS similar
    Name of an establishment of SODI MGMT · Other business support services · Knokke-Heist · since 2024
  • Sophós similar
    Office administrative and support services · Schoten · since 2026
  • SOPHIA GOLD similar
    Agents in non-specialised wholesale trade · since 2017
  • SOPHORA similar
    Activities of holding companies · Gent · since 2014
  • Photography, excluding press photography · since 2014
  • Sophora similar
    Landscape service activities · Staden · since 2022
  • Other non-specialised retail sale · since 2016
  • SOLD similar
    Name of an establishment of C&M VASTGOED · Real estate agency activities · Heist-op-den-Berg · since 2010
  • S.O.P.H. similar
    Chaudfontaine · since 2026
  • SOCOPHOL similar
    Name of an establishment of SOCAPHOT · Detailhandel in fotografische en optische artikelen en in precisieinstrumenten, muv corrigerende brillen, lenzen en zonnebrillen · Charleroi · since 1983
  • sophocle similar
    Book publishing · Gerpinnes · since 2012
  • SOPHY similar
    Abbreviation of SOINS PHYLO · Arlon · since 2013
  • So-Phi similar
    Groothandel in kledingaccessoires · Knokke-Heist · since 2016
  • Sports and recreation education · since 2016
  • Soold similar
    Real estate agency activities · Diest · since 2024

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