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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.

“WKC”

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

4 registered enterprises with a name easily confused with yours.

  • W.K.C. same name
    Abbreviation of WATERLOO KARTING CLUB · Waterloo · since 2001
  • WKC same name
    Business and other management consultancy · Hasselt · since 2017
  • Sole trader same name
    Manufacture of metal structures and parts of structures · since 1988
  • W.K.C. same namein bankruptcy or liquidation
    Abbreviation of Wilrijk Korfbal Club · Antwerpen · since 1975
Names that resemble it 10 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
  • Sole trader similar
    Other building cleaning and industrial cleaning · since 2025
  • W.K. similar
    Abbreviation of Wetenschappelijke Kring · Elsene · since 1967
  • W.K. similar
    Abbreviation of Double You K. · Vorst · since 1997
  • W/K similar
    Abbreviation of WERKENKUNST · Engineering and related technical consultancy, excluding land surveyors · Berlaar · since 2016
  • WK similar
    Abbreviation of WEYLERKAZERNE · Development of residential building projects · Brugge · since 2019
  • Sole trader similar
    Activities of interior architects · since 2021
  • WK similar
    Abbreviation of Wetenschappelijke kring VUB · Elsene · since 2021
  • WK similar
    Abbreviation of Manuela von Kuegelgen · Activities of lawyers · Etterbeek · since 2004
  • WK similar
    Abbreviation of WONDERLAB kids · Schaarbeek · since 2023
  • WK similar
    Abbreviation of We-Kanda · Brugge · since 2024

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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