How unique is your company name?
Compare a name with every active company name in FirmTrove. See how common each word is, nationally and per province.
The words that turn up everywhere
53,022 names contain stichting (foundation), 37,408 holding and 30,995 beheer (management). Leave out legal forms and small words such as de, van and en, and these are the words that appear most often in a company name.
How many companies use the word
Words people ask about when they pick a name. The number is how many company names contain the word.
| Word | Company names |
|---|---|
| stichting | 53,022 |
| holding | 37,408 |
| beheer | 30,995 |
| nederland | 15,281 |
| studio | 12,703 |
| praktijk | 11,740 |
| advies | 10,392 |
| design | 8,258 |
| coaching | 8,079 |
| services | 7,767 |
| consultancy | 7,638 |
| group | 7,405 |
| solutions | 7,390 |
| international | 7,305 |
| media | 7,295 |
| fysiotherapie | 6,454 |
| groep | 4,814 |
| europe | 4,746 |
| vereniging | 4,679 |
| bouw | 4,487 |
| transport | 3,796 |
| vastgoed | 3,719 |
| bakkerij | 2,350 |
| digital | 2,131 |
| invest | 1,184 |
| tech | 1,056 |
| lab | 1,009 |
| installatie | 974 |
| kapper | 626 |
| schilder | 465 |
How names end
309,606 names end in bv. A smaller group ends in nl, as if the name were a web address.
| Last word | Company names |
|---|---|
| … bv | 309,606 |
| … nl | 26,541 |
| … vof | 6,927 |
| … consultancy | 4,666 |
| … solutions | 4,597 |
| … services | 4,147 |
| … group | 3,761 |
| … studio | 3,474 |
| … groep | 2,604 |
| … beheer | 735 |
| … lab | 618 |
| … holding | 382 |
Every province names itself differently
Per province the words that appear far more often in company names there than in the other provinces. Place names, chains and words owned by one company group are left out. The number says how many times more often.
- South Holland haaglanden (over 50×), hoeksche (over 50×), voorne (over 50×), rijnmond (over 50×)
- North Holland ijmond (over 50×), kennemerland (over 50×), kitchen (2.4×), investment (2.3×)
- North Brabant brabantse (over 50×), heijden (11.0×), verhoeven (10.4×), kempen (8.8×)
- Gelderland brink (3.7×), peters (3.1×), gezinshuis (3.0×), landgoed (2.7×)
- Utrecht medical (2.2×), nederlandse (2.2×)
- Overijssel twentse (over 50×), salland (over 50×), erve (41.9×)
- Limburg friture (over 50×), smeets (35.5×), parochie (10.1×), janssen (7.5×)
- Friesland friese (over 50×), hoekstra (22.0×), dijkstra (18.6×), protestantse (5.3×)
- Groningen protestantse (2.6×)
- Drenthe camping (3.3×), handelsonderneming (2.9×)
- Zeeland zeeuws (over 50×), zeeuwse (over 50×), minicamping (20.0×), strand (14.4×)
How we count
We take the name of every active company in FirmTrove, without capitals or accents. B.V. counts as bv. A word counts once per name. Words used in fewer than 25 names are not shown, and no company or list appears on this page. A name counts as distinctive when its rarest word is rare; legal forms such as bv are left out of that.
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