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Is your company name still free?

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.

“Stoops, Tim”

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.

Same or very similar names

2 registered enterprises with a name easily confused with yours.

  • Sole trader same name
    Photography, excluding press photography · since 2007
  • STOOPS very similar
    Certified accountants and tax accountants · Merksplas · since 1988
Names that resemble it 18 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
  • STIM similar
    Renting and operating of own or leased non-residential real estate, excluding land · Staden · since 1990
  • STIM similar
    Buying and selling of own real estate · Hasselt · since 2001
  • STIM similar
    Non-specialised retail sale with food, beverages or tobacco predominating · Heist-op-den-Berg · since 2009
  • Stim similar
    Agents in the wholesale of timber and building materials · Roeselare · since 2009
  • STOOP STEVEN similar
    Plumbing work · Beveren-Kruibeke-Zwijndrecht · since 2021
  • STOOP similar
    Gieten van andere non-ferrometalen · Fleurus · since 1968
  • Sole trader similar
    Activities of lawyers · since 2016
  • Sole trader similar
    Web portal activities · since 2022
  • STOTIM similar
    Retail sale of pets, pet food and pet supplies · Namur · since 1998
  • Sole trader similar
    Joinery installation · since 2013
  • Sole trader similar
    since 2013
  • Sole trader similar
    Manufacture of outerwear · since 1996
  • Sole trader similar
    Tattoo and piercing services · since 2009
  • Sole trader similar
    since 2007
  • Stoop Simon similar
    Specialist medical practice · Grobbendonk · since 2024
  • Sole trader similar
    Demolition · since 2025
  • Sole trader similar
    Design of textile patterns, clothing, jewellery, furniture and decorative items · since 2026
  • Sole trader similar
    Beauty care and other beauty treatments · since 2026

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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