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Kansas business name search

Check name availability against the Kansas Secretary of State database

39,831
Business applications, last 12 months
Census BFS via FRED, trailing 12 months
10,531
Filed Q2 2026
Census BFS via FRED, Q2 2026
+21.6%
Year-over-year growth
FRED, trailing 12 months vs prior 12
158
Filings per business day
Derived from TTM applications, FRED
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Websitewww.sos.ks.gov
Phone(785) 296-4564
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Kansas business formation by the numbers

State-level data from official sources on business formation activity in Kansas.

#37
Kansas ranks 37th in U.S. business formations
Ranking is based on total business applications filed in the trailing twelve months across all 50 states and D.C.
Census BFS via FRED, TTM rank
+76.8%
Formation activity since 2019
Comparison of trailing-twelve-month business applications to the 2019 calendar year total. Captures the post-pandemic formation surge.
FRED / BABATOTALNSAKS
-0.7%
Quarter-over-quarter change
Current quarter applications compared to the prior quarter. A useful read on whether momentum is building or fading.
FRED, latest 3 months vs prior 3
$85
LLC filing fee and processing time
Standard processing: within minutes for online filing.
Kansas Secretary of State, verified Mar 2026
1,557
Federal trademark applications from Kansas businesses
Filed with the USPTO in 2023 by applicants with a Kansas address. Trademarks are federal, so this is separate from registering a business name with the Kansas Secretary of State.
USPTO Trademark Case Files, 2023 vintage
flat
Trademark filing change since 2015
Kansas filings went from 1,555 in 2015 to 1,557 in 2023, essentially unchanged.
USPTO Trademark Case Files, 2023 vintage

What the filing data shows about Kansas

Applicants with a Kansas address filed 1,557 federal trademark applications in 2023, almost exactly the 1,555 filed in 2015. Kansas is one of a handful of states where the volume barely moved across eight years.

The country did not stand still around it. Florida (up 39%), Texas (up 36%), North Carolina (up 28%) and Georgia (up 20%) gained sharply over the same eight years and California (down 4%), New York (down 10%) and Illinois (down 7%) declined.

The most common category for Kansas filings since 2019 is Class 035, covering advertising, business management and office services.

A trademark and a Kansas registration are different things

Registering an entity with the Kansas Secretary of State establishes that name for that entity within Kansas. A federal trademark is granted by the USPTO, applies nationally, and covers only the goods or services it is registered under.

The two records are separate, which is why a name can clear a Kansas entity search and still overlap an existing federal mark, and why a federal mark can exist for a name no Kansas entity has registered.

Trademark figures on this page come from the USPTO Trademark Case Files dataset, which covers applications through March 2024. Counts are applications filed by applicants with a Kansas mailing address, and reflect filings rather than registrations granted.