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.
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
3 registered enterprises with a name easily confused with yours.
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Full-service restaurants · Elsene · since 2006
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since 1998
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Brussel · since 2001
Names that resemble it 66 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
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Full-service restaurants · Wemmel · since 2013
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Name of an establishment of SOFRA · Retail sale of meat and meat products, excluding game and poultry · Gent · since 2014
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Hairdressing and barber services · Aalst · since 2015
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Full-service restaurants · Aalst · since 2017
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Site preparation · Antwerpen · since 2018
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Manufacture of jewellery · Heusden-Zolder · since 2020
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Non-specialised retail sale with food, beverages or tobacco predominating · since 2021
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General construction of residential buildings · Gent · since 2021
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Hairdressing and barber services · since 2025
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On-demand passenger transport by chauffeured vehicle · since 2026
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Activities of lawyers · since 2020
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Retail sale of cars and light vans (up to 3.5 tonnes) · since 2012
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General cleaning of buildings · since 2023
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Office administrative and support services · since 2011
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Renting and operating of own or leased residential real estate, excluding social housing · Sint-Niklaas · since 2025
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Painting of buildings · Steenokkerzeel · since 2012
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Wholesale of cars and light vans (up to 3.5 tonnes) · since 2016
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Hairdressing and barber services · since 2018
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Launderettes and laundries for private customers · since 2020
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Other professional, scientific and technical activities · since 2020
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Repair and fitting of specific motor vehicle parts · since 2011
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Retail sale of fruit and vegetables · since 2022
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Proefboren en boren · since 2023
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Activities of lawyers · since 2008
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Limited-service restaurants, excluding mobile food services · since 2009
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Name of an establishment of YILDIZ-TRANS · Postdiensten in het kader van de universele dienstverplichting · Schaarbeek · since 2007
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Plastering work · since 2021
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Agents in the wholesale of food, beverages and tobacco · since 2023
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General cleaning of buildings · since 2024
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Limited-service restaurants, excluding mobile food services · Bilzen-Hoeselt · since 2024
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Photography, excluding press photography · since 2026
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Other retail sale of new goods · since 2025
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since 2026
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Photography, excluding press photography · since 2026
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Other postal and courier activities · since 2026
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Retail sale of cars and light vans (up to 3.5 tonnes) · since 2015
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since 2026
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since 2017
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Antwerpen · since 2015
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Promotion and organisation of arts and performing arts events · since 2024
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since 1994
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Non-scheduled passenger transport by road · since 2018
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Tyre services · since 2018
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Groothandel in suiker, chocolade en suikerwerk · since 2020
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Beauty care and other beauty treatments · since 2023
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since 2021
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since 2022
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Hairdressing and barber services · since 2023
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Physiotherapy · since 1998
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Limited-service restaurants, excluding mobile food services · since 2012
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Retail sale of cars and light vans (up to 3.5 tonnes) · since 2012
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since 2012
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Graphic design and visual communication · since 2024
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Beauty care and other beauty treatments · since 2024
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Overheden van gemeenschappen en gewesten · since 2024
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On-demand passenger transport by chauffeured vehicle · Antwerpen · since 2025
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Hairdressing and barber services · since 2025
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Construction of utility projects for electricity and telecommunications · since 2025
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Groothandel in papier- en kartonwaren · since 2026
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Other construction installation · since 2019
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since 2017
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Other building finishing work · since 2019
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Other activities auxiliary to financial services, excluding insurance and pension funding · since 2023
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Retail sale of cars and light vans (up to 3.5 tonnes) · since 2024
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Retail sale of fruit and vegetables · Brussel · since 2012
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since 2017