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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.

“Splinter, Ellen”

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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Same or very similar names

9 registered enterprises with a name easily confused with yours.

  • Sole trader same name
    Graphic design and visual communication · since 2019
  • SPLINTER very similar
    Manufacture of other builders' carpentry and joinery · Antwerpen · since 1997
  • SPLINTER very similar
    Joinery installation · Aalst · since 2000
  • Sole trader very similar
    Vervaardiging van keukenmeubelen · since 2015
  • Sole trader very similar
    since 1998
  • Splinter very similar
    Name of an establishment of PARELS VOOR DE ZWIJNEN · Full-service restaurants · Gent · since 2019
  • Splinter vzw very similar
    Promotion and organisation of arts and performing arts events · Gent · since 2020
  • SPLINTER very similar
    Joinery installation · Leuven · since 2010
  • Sole trader very similar
    Insulation installation · since 2012
Names that resemble it 7 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
  • Sole trader similar
    Other specialised design activities · since 2009
  • Sole trader similar
    since 2018
  • SPLINTEX similar
    Other retail sale of food · Sint-Niklaas · since 1995
  • Spiksplinter similar
    Business and other management consultancy · Antwerpen · since 2024
  • Aarschot · since 2000
  • Sole trader similar
    Joinery installation · since 2025
  • SPLIN similar
    Vervaardiging van spellen en speelgoed · Thimister-Clermont · since 1938

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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