Arizona Corporation Commission
Arizona Business Entity Search
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Check whether a business name is already on file with the Arizona Corporation Commission. Free, no account, all entity types.
Arizona Business Entity Search
Search the state's official business records.
Arizona's register is at ecorp.azcc.gov, run by the Arizona Corporation Commission. Not a Secretary of State: Arizona is one of a handful of states where an elected commission holds the companies.
It is called a statutory agent here
Not a registered agent. The distinction is only terminology, but it is the kind that makes you look like you do not know the state: Arizona's own fee schedule, its forms and its search field all say statutory agent. Ohio says the same; Maine folds it together as Clerk/Registered Agent.
Two things narrow your search without saying so
The match is set to Starts With. Switch it to Contains if you are checking whether a name is taken. The other option is Exact Match, which is narrower still.
The results start at ten rows a page. A search for Acme finds 378 and shows you the first ten. That is under 3% of the answer on screen, and nothing about the page shouts that at you.
Change both before you conclude anything.
You can search for a person
The form carries Statutory Agent Name and Principal Name as fields in their own right, alongside Business ID, Domicile and Address Type.
Searching a person and getting back what they are attached to is something only Arizona, Illinois and Oregon let you do from the public search. Arizona is the only one of the three that also lets you filter by address type, which is useful when an agent and a principal share a building.
Reserved names sit in the results
Name Reservation and Name Registration records come back in the same list as live companies, with N/A in the agent and address columns.
That is more helpful than it sounds. A reserved name is not a company and never may be, but it is a name somebody has already claimed, and most registers make you run a second search to find out. Here it is in the row, and the Business Type column is what tells you which is which.
Results also carry a Business Former Name column, so a hit on an abandoned name is visible before you open anything.
The record
Business name, type and ID. State of formation, principal office and mailing addresses. Date of formation, status date and period of duration. Management structure (member managed or manager managed), which few states publish.
Then Statutory Agent Information with the agent type, name, physical and mailing addresses and an effective date.
Then Principals Information, a table of title, principal type, name, attention line, address, mailing address, date taking office and term of office. The date taking office is the useful column: it tells you how long the current management has been in place, which a bare list of names does not.
Six tabs sit at the foot: Filing History, Name History, Stat. Agent History, Service History, Restructuring History and Microfilm History. Stat. Agent History is worth knowing about: an agent who has changed three times in two years tells you something.
Who decides
Arizona is one of the few states where an elected commission rather than a secretary decides. The Arizona Corporation Commission applies Arizona Revised Statutes Title 29, and publishes its fee schedule against that title so the price and the law sit together.
Before you rely on it
Change Starts With to Contains, and raise the page size off ten.
Read the Business Type column. A reserved name in the list is a claim on the name even though it is not a company.
Check Business Former Name as well as the current one.
Look at Stat. Agent History if the agent matters to your question.
Arizona filing facts
| Filing | Regular | Expedited |
|---|---|---|
| Articles of Organization | $50.00 | $85.00 |
| Foreign Registration Statement | $150.00 | $185.00 |
| Application to Reserve LLC Name | $10.00 | $45.00 |
| Name transfer or cancellation | $10.00 | |
| Certificate of good standing | $10.00 | $45.00 |
| Termination | $35.00 | $70.00 |
Arizona does something unusually clean with expediting: a flat $35 on top of the regular fee, for every document type. Not a percentage, not a tiered menu: one number, the same everywhere. Illinois charges $100 extra to go from ten days to 24 hours on a $150 filing; Wyoming's counter service runs to $500.
At $50 to form, Arizona is among the cheapest states in the country: level with Iowa, a third of New York's headline, a sixth of Texas. The $10 name reservation is the cheapest we have recorded anywhere.
We are not quoting a same-day processing charge or a name reservation period. Both circulate widely ($200 and 120 days), and neither is on the state's fee schedule.
Volume runs with the sunbelt: 156,000 applications in the 52 weeks to 26 September 2026, 624 a business day, up 21.6%. 13th of 51 overall.
What the register will not tell you
Arizona has 47,909 live registered marks, and the crowded words are the landscape:
| word | live marks | times more common than nationally |
|---|---|---|
| arizona | 1,276 | 59x |
| ping | 418 | 53x |
| canyon | 454 | 20x |
| desert | 488 | 18x |
| golf | 428 | 5x |
| institute | 413 | 2x |
| better | 545 | 2x |
Desert at 18x and canyon at 20x are Arizona describing itself, and both are words a business here would reach for naturally. Golf at 5x on 428 marks is the state's tourism economy showing up in its brands.
Ping at 53 times the national rate is the odd one, and it is a single company: the golf manufacturer is headquartered in Phoenix. A three-letter word at that concentration is almost always one firm's portfolio rather than a naming trend, the same pattern as dtn in Nebraska and harley in Wisconsin.
Filing concentrates in the Valley: Phoenix 29.0%, Scottsdale 21.7%, Tempe 10.5%. Those three account for six marks in ten.
What the Arizona portal looks like
Captured from the live register. Personal names and addresses are blacked out; everything else is as the state publishes it.
Arizona Corporation Commission business services
Business registrations in Arizona are held by the Arizona Corporation Commission, which maintains the public register this page searches, accepts new filings, and issues the certificates a bank or a counterparty may ask you for. Contact them directly for anything that has to be official.
| Business entity search | arizonabusinesscenter.azcc.gov/businesssearch |
|---|---|
| Phone | (602) 542-3026 |
| Address | 1300 W. Washington Street, Phoenix, AZ 85007 |
| Office hours | 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. |
| LLC filing fee | $50 |
| Processing | 14-16 business days |
The office handles registration, not disputes. If a name is already taken, they will tell you it is unavailable but not who holds it beyond what the public record shows, and they will not advise on whether your name infringes someone’s mark.
Common questions about Arizona business entity searches
How do I check if an LLC exists in Arizona?
Search the name on this page or on the state's own portal. What Arizona does by default is worth knowing before you read the result: starts With. A match means the entity is on file, and its status line tells you whether it is still active.
How do I verify a company is registered in Arizona?
Search the name, then open the record rather than reading the results line. You get business name, type and ID, state of formation, principal office and mailing addresses, date of formation, status date and period of duration, management structure, member managed or manager managed and business status…. The status on the record is the one to trust: a dissolved company still appears in a search and still holds its name.
Does a clear search mean my Arizona business name is approved?
Not on its own. A no-match result means the name is not on the Arizona register today, which is a preliminary answer rather than approval: Arizona Corporation Commission decides when it reviews the filing. Worth knowing about Arizona in particular: two things narrow an Arizona search without saying so. The match is set to Starts With, and the results start at ten rows a page: a search for Acme finds 378 and shows you the first ten. Read the type column too, because a good many of those hits are name reservations and registrations rather than companies, and they still hold the name.
Can I look up who owns a business in Arizona?
The Arizona register shows the registered agent and, depending on the filing type, officers or organizers. It does not list members or shareholders for every entity, so the register identifies who accepts legal service rather than who owns the company.
How much does it cost to register a business name in Arizona?
Arizona Corporation Commission charges $50 to file the Articles of Organization, which is the document that forms the company, and currently takes 14-16 business days to process. Reserving a name beforehand is a separate and smaller fee. Confirm the figure with the state before you file: schedules move.
Sources
- Arizona business entity search, the official register this page queries.
- Filing fees and processing times: Arizona Corporation Commission, Schedule of Fees: Limited Liability Companies, Rev. 3.2026, A.R.S. Title 29, verified 2026-09-10. Current schedules are published by the Arizona Corporation Commission.
- Formation activity: Census Bureau Business Formation Statistics, retrieved via FRED at the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis.
- Federal trademark data: United States Patent and Trademark Office, 3,374,058 live registrations cross-referenced against the state registers. Live excludes both abandoned applications and cancelled registrations.
- Office contact details: Arizona Corporation Commission, confirmed against the office’s own contact page.
- Naming and reporting rules: Arizona Corporation Commission, Schedule of Fees: Limited Liability Companies, Rev. 3.2026, A.R.S. Title 29.
- Naming statute: Ariz. Rev. Stat. 29-3112, published by the state.
- State seal: public domain image via Wikimedia Commons.