---
title: "Sunbiz Fictitious Name"
method: POST
path: "/us/sunbiz/fictitious-name/v1"
tags: ["United States", "Sunbiz (Florida Division of Corporations)"]
---

# Sunbiz Fictitious Name

`POST /us/sunbiz/fictitious-name/v1`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.croma.run`
- URL: `https://api.croma.run/us/sunbiz/fictitious-name/v1`
- Auth: HTTP bearer

Read one Florida fictitious name (DBA) by its registration number, with its owners and every event filed against it since 1991: renewals, changes of address or owner, owners added or removed, cancellation. `found: false` when the Division has no such registration. Served by Croma, brought up to date daily.

**Dataset endpoint**: answers from the whole source in milliseconds and carries `as_of`.

## Headers

- `Idempotency-Key` string

## Request body

- object
  - `document_number` string, required: Número de registro del nombre comercial en Florida, p. ej. `G26000123456`.

## Response `200`

Successful response

- SunbizFictitiousNameResponse
  - `data` SunbizFictitiousNameData, required
    - `found` boolean, required
    - `document_number` string, required
    - `as_of` string, nullable, required: How current the data in this response is.
    - `fictitious_name` object, nullable, required
      - `document_number` string, required: The registration's number, `G` and eleven digits. The key.
      - `name` string, required: The fictitious name as registered.
      - `county` string, nullable, required: The county the business operates in, upper-cased; `MULTIPLE` for more than one.
      - `address` object, required: The business's address under the fictitious name.
        - `line_1` string, nullable, required
        - `line_2` string, nullable, required
        - `city` string, nullable, required
        - `state` string, nullable, required
        - `zip` string, nullable, required
        - `country` string, nullable, required
      - `filed_on` string, nullable, required: When the registration was filed (yyyy-mm-dd).
      - `expires_on` string, nullable, required: When the registration expires unless renewed: December 31 of its fifth year (yyyy-mm-dd).
      - `cancelled_on` string, nullable, required: When the registration was cancelled, as its own record states (yyyy-mm-dd).
      - `status_code` string, nullable, required: The status on the registration's own record: `A` active, `C` cancelled, `E` expired.
      - `pages` number, nullable, required
      - `owner_count` number, nullable, required
      - `more_than_ten_owners` boolean, required: The registration has more owners than the ten the record carries.
      - `fei_number` string, nullable, required: The FEI number on the registration; returned only when every owner is a company.
      - `owners` object[], required
        - `kind` 'person' | 'company', nullable, required
        - `name` string, nullable, required: The owner's name: the company's, or the person's first, middle and last name and suffix.
        - `first_name` string, nullable, required: Persons only.
        - `middle_name` string, nullable, required: Persons only.
        - `last_name` string, nullable, required: Persons only.
        - `suffix` string, nullable, required: Persons only.
        - `document_number` string, nullable, required: The owner's own Sunbiz document number, when the owner is an entity on the registry: the join to `sunbiz-entity`.
        - `fei_number` string, nullable, required: The owner's FEI number; returned for a company owner only.
        - `address` object, required
          - `line_1` string, nullable, required
          - `city` string, nullable, required
          - `state` string, nullable, required
          - `zip` string, nullable, required
          - `country` string, nullable, required
      - `owner_names` string[], required: Every owner's name.
      - `owner_document_numbers` string[], required: The Sunbiz document numbers of the owners that are entities on the registry.
      - `person_owned` boolean, required: At least one owner is a person.
      - `listed_on` string, required: The day of the newest publication that lists the registration: the quarterly register or a day's filings (yyyy-mm-dd).
      - `updated_at` string, required: When the registry published the state this record reflects.
      - `status` 'active' | 'inactive' | 'cancelled', required: `active` while the Division's register lists it; `inactive` once it no longer does (expired or cancelled); `cancelled` when a cancellation was filed.
    - `events` object[], required: Every event filed against the registration, oldest first.
      - `id` string, required: The event's document number and its action sequence. The key.
      - `event_document_number` string, required
      - `document_number` string, required: The registration the event is filed against.
      - `name` string, nullable, required: The fictitious name as the event states it.
      - `action_code` string, nullable, required: `REN` renewal, `CHF` change of address, `CHO` change of owner, `ADD` owner added, `DEL` owner removed, `CAN` cancellation, `AME` amendment.
      - `action` string, nullable, required: The action as the registry words it.
      - `filed_on` string, nullable, required: When the event was filed (yyyy-mm-dd).
      - `action_counter` number, nullable, required
      - `event_sequence` number, nullable, required
      - `action_sequence` number, nullable, required
      - `pages` number, nullable, required
      - `previous` object, nullable, required: What a change replaced: FEI number, county and address.
        - `fei_number` string, nullable, required
        - `county` string, nullable, required
        - `address` object, required
          - `line_1` string, nullable, required
          - `line_2` string, nullable, required
          - `city` string, nullable, required
          - `state` string, nullable, required
          - `zip` string, nullable, required
          - `country` string, nullable, required
      - `current` object, nullable, required: What a change set.
        - `fei_number` string, nullable, required
        - `county` string, nullable, required
        - `address` object, required
          - `line_1` string, nullable, required
          - `line_2` string, nullable, required
          - `city` string, nullable, required
          - `state` string, nullable, required
          - `zip` string, nullable, required
          - `country` string, nullable, required
      - `owner` object, nullable, required: The owner an owner event names.
        - `name` string, nullable, required
        - `document_number` string, nullable, required
        - `fei_number` string, nullable, required
        - `address` object, required
          - `line_1` string, nullable, required
          - `city` string, nullable, required
          - `state` string, nullable, required
          - `zip` string, nullable, required
      - `previous_name_sequence` number, nullable, required
      - `new_name_sequence` number, nullable, required

## Other responses

- `400`: Invalid request body
- `401`: Missing or invalid API key
- `429`: Rate limit exceeded
- `500`: Internal error
- `502`: Upstream source returned an error

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