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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.

“Van Muylem, Pascal”

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

3 registered enterprises with a name easily confused with yours.

  • Sole trader same name
    Retail sale of fruit and vegetables · since 1994
  • Sole trader very similar
    Growing of vegetables, melons, roots and tubers · since 2015
  • Sole trader very similar
    Activities of building architects · since 2005
Names that resemble it 23 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
  • Sole trader similar
    Artisanal bread and fresh pastry making · since 1987
  • Sole trader similar
    Painting of buildings · since 2001
  • Sole trader similar
    since 2009
  • Sole trader similar
    Retail sale of fruit and vegetables · since 2018
  • Sole trader similar
    Photography, excluding press photography · since 1983
  • Sole trader similar
    Joinery installation · since 1994
  • Sole trader similar
    Design of textile patterns, clothing, jewellery, furniture and decorative items · since 2020
  • Sole trader similar
    since 2005
  • Sole trader similar
    since 2010
  • Sole trader similar
    Support activities for animal production · since 1991
  • Sole trader similar
    since 1995
  • Sole trader similar
    Plastering work · since 2008
  • Sole trader similar
    since 2018
  • Sole trader similar
    Psychology services · since 2021
  • Sole trader similar
    Graphic design and visual communication · since 2016
  • Sole trader similar
    General construction of residential buildings · since 2003
  • Sole trader similar
    Growing of vegetables, melons, roots and tubers · since 2008
  • Sole trader similar
    Plastering work · since 2024
  • Sole trader similar
    since 1991
  • Sole trader similar
    Other postal and courier activities · since 2017
  • Sole trader similar
    since 1995
  • Sole trader similar
    Business and other management consultancy · since 2021
  • Sole trader similar
    since 2000

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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