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.
“Studio Philips”
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
2 registered enterprises with a name easily confused with yours.
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Sound recording · Opwijk · since 2024
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Activities of building architects · Leuven · since 2023
Names that resemble it 35 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
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Photography, excluding press photography · since 2018
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Public relations and communication consultancy · Sint-Truiden · since 2024
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Graphic design and visual communication · since 2017
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Sports and recreation education · Boechout · since 2018
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Retail sale of footwear · since 2003
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Beauty care and other beauty treatments · Lievegem · since 2023
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Hairdressing and barber services · since 2011
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Activities of interior architects · Sint-Martens-Latem · since 2024
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Other retail sale of food · since 2001
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General construction of other non-residential buildings · since 1986
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Graphic design and visual communication · since 2020
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Hairdressing and barber services · Gent · since 2026
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Sint-Pieters-Leeuw · since 1996
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Computer programming · since 2017
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Manufacture of metal structures and parts of structures · since 2023
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Travel agency activities · Huldenberg · since 2026
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Other photographic activities · Hasselt · since 2012
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Name of an establishment of Tuinen Christophe · Overige plantenvermeerdering · Keerbergen · since 2019
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Design of textile patterns, clothing, jewellery, furniture and decorative items · since 2019
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Computer consultancy and computer facilities management · Steenokkerzeel · since 2023
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Graphic design and visual communication · Oud-Heverlee · since 2023
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Computing infrastructure, data processing, hosting and related activities · since 2010
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Vervaardiging van andere meubelen, n.e.g. · Antwerpen · since 2004
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Sports and recreation education · since 2025
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Name of Studio Mon · Activities of building architects · Mechelen · since 2026
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Mortsel · since 1993
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Oostende · since 2002
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Hairdressing and barber services · since 2017
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Kapellen · since 2017
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Activities of interior architects · since 2023
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Aarschot · since 2009
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Performing arts by independent artists · Overijse · since 2010
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Retail sale of prescription glasses, lenses and sunglasses · since 2011
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Beauty care and other beauty treatments · since 2026
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Agents and managers of artists, athletes and other public figures · Vorst · since 2011