Receiving a phone call or text from a person you do not recognize? Don’t worry. In this article, we’ve put together the 4 most useful ways for you to quickly find out the name of a person by mobile number. Read on…

1. BeenVerified

Interested in knowing if the phone number owner is in some way related to your life? BeenVerified can definitely help you with that.

BeenVerified is a powerful phone number lookup engine that gives you the power to search almost any cell phone or landline number. Then it will match the digit in its database, find all relevant records, and compile it into a detailed report for you.

Here is how to use BeenVerified to trace the owner of an unknown phone number.

1. Go to BeenVerified Phone Lookup.
2. Pop the 10-digit cell phone number into the box and hit SEARCH.
   
3. The full report is ready and waiting. Once you unlock the report, you will see the phone number owner’s name, photos, email addresses, social media profiles, jobs and a ton more useful info.
   
   

2. PeopleLooker

PeopleLooker is a popular people search portal that gives you access to a person’s public records at the click of a search button. In fact, by supporting searching on 120+ social networks, it digs deep into social networks. This means that whether a person is active on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Tinder, Bumble, Hinge, or Reddit, a simple search at PeopleLooker will show them all.

1. Go to PeopleLooker Phone Search.
2. Enter phone number whose identity you wish to find out and click Search.
   
3. Wait as PeopleLooker looks up the phone owner’s name and gathers in-depth information for you.
   
   

3. Social Catfish (Worldwide)

3 out of 10 strange phone calls are from scammers. If the phone number on your screen looks fishy, look it up with Social Catfish.

Starting out as a dating investigation service, Social Catfish is specially designed for verifying people – by phone number, name, photo, email, and username. The engine curates its data from such a wide range of sources that it supports tracing almost any phone number across the globe (that’s 100+ countries and regions).

Here’s how to use Social Catfish to find out who is the owner of an unknown phone number.

1. Go to Social Catfish Reverse Phone Lookup.
2. Enter the phone number and click Search.
   
3. Within seconds, Social Catfish will find all associated records about the phone number owner, which may contain their personal info, professional backgrounds, links to their social profiles, etc.
   

4. Spokeo

Spokeo would make a great alternative if the number you’d searched somehow slipped the cracks of the above options’ databases.

Another feature that makes it shine is that upon search, the engine will provide you with free basic information, such as name, photos, relatives, and locations, which may suffice for you to decide if the person is worth a callback.

To look up the number whose owner has been calling or texting you.

1. Go to Spokeo Reverse Phone Lookup.
2. Enter the 10-digit phone number and hit SEARCH NOW.
   
3. Wait as Spokeo scours 12+ billion records in its database and presents to you a detailed report.
   
   

That’s the end of this post. Hopefully, the 4 methods above have pointed you in the right direction in finding out who it really is behind a phone number.

If you have any questions, ideas, or suggestions, you’re more than welcome to leave us a comment below.

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