Are you looking to know who is the owner of a particular phone number? Maybe you missed a call from a number you don’t recognize or noted a number but forgot whose it is. No matter what your reason is for doing a reverse search on the phone number, there are some methods and tools to dig out the information you are looking for.

1. Truecaller

Truecaller provides a free reverse phone lookup tool allowing you to search for information about a phone number’s owner.

To use this feature, just visit the Truecaller website and sign in through your Google, Facebook, or Microsoft account.

Next, enter the phone number you’d like to search for and tap the search button to uncover details such as the person’s name and address.

Alternatively, you can download the Truecaller app on your phone and use it as a caller ID app to identify unknown callers and block unwanted spam calls. It’s important to note that the app runs on a subscription basis – you can try its 14-day free trial, but after the trial ends, a monthly charge of $9.99 applies.

The app version is very helpful if you frequently deal with unknown numbers or seek to stop spam calls. However, some users express privacy concerns. This is because the app requests access to your phone book, although Truecaller claims that it won’t upload your contacts for public search. If privacy is a priority for you too, use the Truecaller web search engine instead of the app for reverse phone lookups.

2. True People Search

True People Search is a free people search engine that also offers reverse phone lookups. The free information you can get from here includes the person’s current address, phone numbers, age, relatives, email addresses, associated names, and possible associates.

If you want to unlock more details about the subject – such as their public records, click the View Full Background Report button on the page and this will redirect you to another site to buy the full report.

3. Fast People Search

Fast People Search is another people search engine that provides a few details for free, like the person’s full name, aliases, age, address history, relatives and associates, and email addresses.

You can use its reverse phone lookup feature to search for information about someone. Within a few seconds, you’ll be able to view a list of possible owners of that phone number.

4. Whitepages

If you didn’t have any luck with the free tools above, you might want to try a paid option like Whitepages.com.

Whitepages is probably the most well-known phone lookup tool in North America. And it’s very affordable – if you’re after the basic information like the owner’s name and contact info, you can opt for the Premium Contact Info plan for $2.5 a month. The plan lets you run 20 reverse phone lookups a month.

If you would like to run a background check on the owner, it costs $11.99 for a single report. This will unlock the owner’s name, contact info, and criminal and public records.

5. Intelius

Getting information on cell phone numbers is not always easy, but as mentioned above, many solutions exist. There is Intelius, which has a directory of billions of numbers.

You can use Intelius to reverse search for a number and discover who the number belongs to. Or, in reverse, use the service to find someone’s phone number using other information you know about them.

After a moment, you should see the results, which might include complete personal information including the individual’s name, address, birth information, type of phone (cellphone or landline), and so on. 

6. TruthFinder

TruthFinder is a powerful reverse lookup tool that captures any phone number that comes within its reach, along with any information accompanying it about its owner – a name, an address, an email, and even pictures.

Simply enter the phone number into this site and it might help you learn who is the owner of a particular phone number.

Apart from this, TruthFinder also allows you to search for phone numbers via names and addresses.

7. Social Catfish

Social Catfish is an online investigation service that explores public records, the communication networks, and links of their users and intelligently extracts meaningful information to substantiate data around phone numbers.

Just look up the phone number with Social Catfish, and it will scour millions of web pages and public resources to broaden your odds of finding out who owns that number.

8. PeopleFinders

PeopleFinders is another powerful people finder site with over 120 billion records and more than 6,000 data sources. It lets you dig up who owns a number and find other information about someone, such as their email address, job information, etc.

The search report you can get from PeopleFinders can include any of the following: full name, current address, phone number, relatives, aliases, age, property records, bankruptcies, judgments and liens, criminal records, and more.

9. Use Web Search Engines

Doing a basic web search for the number with search engines like Google, Bing or Duckduckgo can be a quick way to detect an unknown caller. Plus, it’s easy and completely free.

Just type the number into a web search engine and it’ll search the web as a whole to see which pages have that number listed. If the phone number is listed on any website or public job profile, it will show up in your search results. From there, you can do some more digging on that specific site to see if you can locate more details about the caller.

Wrapping up

We know that a cell phone number lookup has never been easy – it’s not necessary that every phone number out there has a record for it online and there is no guaranteed way to look up a number. If you don’t get satisfactory results after trying all these, you probably just have to give up.