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.
“Snowaves”
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.
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Overijse · since 1978
Names that resemble it 15 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
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Dilbeek · since 1994
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Cafés and bars · Herent · since 2023
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Schilde · since 2003
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Visual arts creation · Antwerpen · since 2020
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Sports and recreation education · since 2023
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Name of an establishment of LA TERRE EMOI · Advertising agencies · Waterloo · since 2004
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Other activities auxiliary to financial services, excluding insurance and pension funding · Heist-op-den-Berg · since 2024
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Nieuwpoort · since 2001
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Full-service restaurants · since 2019
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Physiotherapy · Leuven · since 2021
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Other sports activities · De Panne · since 2023
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Other amusement and recreation activities · since 2024
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Physiotherapy · since 2025
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Productie van televisieprogramma's · since 2025
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Graphic design and visual communication · since 2023