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

# Sunbiz Fictitious Names Search

`POST /us/sunbiz/fictitious-names-search/v1`

## Request

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

Search every fictitious name (DBA) registered with the Florida Division of Corporations since 2008, in force or not, by the trade name and its owners' names, by status, county, the owning entity's document number, a company owner's FEI and filing dates. Answers who is behind a trade name. Newest first, pages of up to 50. Served by Croma (`as_of` says how current the data is), 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
  - `query` string: Palabras a buscar en los nombres del registro (opcional).
  - `status` '' | 'active' | 'inactive': Estado de la entidad: `active` o `inactive` (opcional).
  - `county` string: Valor tal como lo escribe el registro (opcional).
  - `owner_document_number` string: Número de documento de una entidad de Florida, p. ej. `P26000044030` (opcional).
  - `fei_number` string: FEI/EIN de nueve dígitos de la entidad (opcional).
  - `filed_from` string, date: Optional date filter in yyyy-mm-dd format.
  - `filed_to` string, date: Optional date filter in yyyy-mm-dd format.
  - `page` integer: 1-based page number for paginated results.
  - `per_page` integer: Resultados por página (1-50).

## Response `200`

Successful response

- SunbizFictitiousNamesSearchResponse
  - `data` SunbizFictitiousNamesSearchData, required
    - `as_of` string, nullable, required: How current the data in this response is.
    - `query` string, required
    - `status` string, nullable, required
    - `county` string, nullable, required
    - `owner_document_number` string, nullable, required
    - `fei_number` string, nullable, required
    - `filed_from` string, nullable, required
    - `filed_to` string, nullable, required
    - `total` number, required: Matches, counted up to 1000.
    - `total_is_exact` boolean, required: False when more than 1000 match: `total` is then 1000, and the pages go on.
    - `page` number, required
    - `per_page` number, required
    - `total_pages` number, required: Pages over `total`; there are more when `total_is_exact` is false.
    - `count` number, required
    - `fictitious_names` object[], 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.

## 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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