Kansas LLC name search

What a Kansas LLC name must include

Kansas accepts these endings for a limited liability company:

• L.L.C.
• L.C.
• LLC
• LC
• Limited Liability Company
• Limited Company

The Kansas Revised Limited Liability Company Act (K.S.A. 17-7662 et seq.) is the law behind LLC names here. Kansas accepts six endings, from the full “limited liability company” or “limited company” to the short forms L.L.C., L.C., LLC and LC. No restricted-word list could be confirmed on an official Kansas page.

How Kansas decides two names are the same

Kansas handles near matches with consent. When another business on file already uses the name, your Articles of Organization must come with a Consent to Use of Similar Business Name. The guidance we found doesn't define how similar is too similar, so treat near misses as possible conflicts.

Where the rules are written. Kansas Revised Limited Liability Company Act (K.S.A. 17-7662 et seq.)

Searching for an LLC name in Kansas

Two free tools help: the Business Search shows what's on file, and the Business Name Availability check tests a specific name before you file.

Open the official Kansas entity search

Leave the ending off when you search, so every version of the name shows up, then compare each result word by word. If one matches apart from spacing, punctuation or a plural, change a real word in your name.

Holding the name: Kansas LLC name reservation

Form NR, the Reservation of Exclusive Right to Entity Name, holds an LLC name for 120 days for $35. It covers the entity name only and doesn't register a DBA, and the official pages we checked didn't confirm a way to file it online.

File a Kansas name reservation

Forming the LLC in Kansas

Articles of Organization cost $85 online or $90 on paper. That's after a reduction on February 27, 2026, and the amount combines a $75 filing fee (K.A.R. 7-50-1) with information and technology fees.

File the Articles of Organization online

The LLC then files a business entity information report every two years by April 15, in the even-numbered years for an LLC formed in an even year and the odd-numbered years otherwise. After the deadline there's a three-month delinquency period before the LLC is forfeited, and the report itself costs an $80 statutory fee plus regulatory fees whose current total we couldn't confirm, with a $10 penalty if late. No franchise tax, no newspaper notice. A Certificate of Good Standing is listed at $10 online and $15 on paper.

When the LLC trades under another name

An LLC can't register a second business name in Kansas, because the state keeps no register of DBA, fictitious, assumed or trade names. The name on the Articles of Organization is the one the Secretary of State records.

Sources

• Register a business, sos.ks.gov, checked 2026-10-07
• sos.ks.gov, checked 2026-10-07
• sos.ks.gov, checked 2026-10-07
• Information reports, sos.ks.gov, checked 2026-10-07
• ksrevisor.gov, checked 2026-10-07
• sos.ks.gov, checked 2026-10-07
• 05 26 26 secretary of state reduces fees for kansans, sos.ks.gov, checked 2026-10-07

These are the official pages behind every fact above. If one of them now says something different, it's right and this page is out of date.

A few were read from search results, not the page itself, because the site refused direct requests; treat the facts they back as provisional until the Kansas Secretary of State confirms them.