Is your company name still 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.
“WERCAN”
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
10 registered enterprises with a name easily confused with yours.
-
Activities of holding companies · Merksplas · since 2011
-
Cafés and bars · Gent · since 2013
-
Activities of holding companies · Mechelen · since 2017
-
General construction of residential buildings · Genk · since 1989
-
Activities of head offices · Bree · since 2022
-
General cleaning of buildings · Etterbeek · since 2011
-
Non-specialised retail sale with food, beverages or tobacco predominating · since 1994
-
Alken · since 2007
-
Limited-service restaurants, excluding mobile food services · Leuven · since 2025
-
Limited-service restaurants, excluding mobile food services · since 2010
Names that resemble it 6 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
-
Abbreviation of AT WERC · Other business support services · Antwerpen · since 2016
-
Abbreviation of Werkhuizen Coysman · Vervaardiging van fineer en van panelen op basis van hout · Tielt · since 1970
-
Wholesale of wines and spirits · Oostende · since 1976
-
Roofing work · since 2006
-
General maintenance and repair of cars and light vans (up to 3.5 tonnes) · since 2007
-
Abbreviation of Régie communale autonome des sports de Nivelles · Operation of sports facilities · Nivelles · since 2018
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.