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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.

“STOOP”

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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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

40 registered enterprises with a name easily confused with yours.

Names that resemble it 21 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
  • STOP similar
    Groothandel in suiker, chocolade en suikerwerk · Dendermonde · since 1980
  • STOP similar
    Name of an establishment of VIMAR · Full-service restaurants · Etterbeek · since 1985
  • STOP (sole trader) similar
    Full-service restaurants · since 1997
  • S.T.O.P. similar
    Business and other management consultancy · Gent · since 2006
  • STOOPEN similar
    Vervaardiging van onderkleding · Lille · since 1975
  • Stoopid similar
    Pre-press and pre-media services · Gent · since 2024
  • Stooplaw (sole trader) similar
    Activities of lawyers · since 1999
  • STORMLOOP similar
    Post-production of films, video and television programmes · Dendermonde · since 2018
  • Stoops, Tim (sole trader) similar
    Photography, excluding press photography · since 2007
  • STOONE similar
    Renting and operating of own or leased residential real estate, excluding social housing · Mechelen · since 2023
  • Stooom similar
    Other building cleaning and industrial cleaning · Oostkamp · since 2024
  • STO similar
    Wholesale of construction materials, general range · Asse · since 1991
  • S.T.O. similar
    Abbreviation of SAVE TRAININGEN & OPLEIDINGEN · Service activities incidental to land transportation · Brugge · since 2014
  • STO similar
    Trade name of SETO · Activities of holding companies · Gent · since 2017
  • STO (sole trader) similar
    Other postal and courier activities · since 2025
  • Stoops, Ivan (sole trader) similar
    Joinery installation · since 2013
  • Stoops, Dirk (sole trader) similar
    since 2013
  • Stoops, Elke (sole trader) similar
    Manufacture of outerwear · since 1996
  • Stoops, Riet (sole trader) similar
    Tattoo and piercing services · since 2009
  • Stoops, Sean (sole trader) similar
    Demolition · since 2025
  • Stoops, Axel (sole trader) similar
    Design of textile patterns, clothing, jewellery, furniture and decorative items · since 2026

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