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Is this company name already taken?
Search the 37 lakh names already on the register. If something close is there, you will see it before you spend a fee finding out.
What this can and cannot tell you
What it tells you
- Whether a company or LLP with the same name, ignoring the suffix, is on the register.
- Whether close names exist, and what state each is registered in.
- Whether those companies are still active or have been struck off.
What it does not
- Whether the registrar will approve your name. The registrar also applies naming rules, amended in 2026, which this page does not check.
- Whether the name conflicts with a registered trade mark. Trade marks are a separate register, and a name clear of the companies register can still be refused on one.
- Whether a name has already been reserved by somebody else and not yet incorporated. A reserved name is not on the register until the company is.
A struck-off company still holds its name on the register. Finding a dead company with the name you want is not the same as finding the name free.
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