Wondering about the person behind a Gmail address? You’ve come to the right place. This post delves into the tactics and reverse email lookup tools you can use to investigate a Gmail address. Read on and find out what they are.

1. LinkedIn(It’s FREE!)

LinkedIn is more than just a social network. It can also be used as a people search tool when you need to find people’s contact details, job history, education information, and more. Though LinkedIn doesn’t make this easy, you can try this workaround to find someone’s profile by email address.

To proceed, you would need a Microsoft Outlook account and a LinkedIn Account – both registered with the same email.

Step 1: Go to Outlook and log into your account.

Step 2: Click the People icon on the left, then click New contact.

Step 3: Fill in the First Name as you want and the Email address whose profile you’re looking for, then click Create.

Step 4: Go back to your Contact page and click the contact you just created. Click LinkedIn and log in to your account to connect your Microsoft Outlook account to your Microsoft LinkedIn account.

Step 5: Back to Outlook and you can see the LinkedIn profile of the email address you were searching for! Click See full profile on LinkedIn button to view it on LinkedIn.

If there’s no profile shown up, it means no LinkedIn account is linked to that email address.

2. BeenVerified

BeenVerified is a decent reverse email lookup that can search for the following information about the owner of a Gmail address:

• First & Last names
• Aliases
• Phone numbers
• Email addresses
• Social networking profiles
• Photos
• Properties and assets
• And more…

Just type the Gmail address into the search box below and click Search Now. BeenVerified will scour billions of public records across a range of public records databases, then show you a list of possible owners.

Note that BeenVerified is a subscription-based service. The search report is unavailable for non-subscribers, so there is no need to try it without a membership. 

We’ve generated a sample report with BeenVerified – it provides us with a list of possible owners of that email address. Clicking Search person reveals a detailed background report on the person.

The background report might include the person’s full name, age, contact details, current and full address, professional history, court records, and many more when available. You can scroll down the report, or click a link in the Overview to jump to that section. 

3. PeopleLooker

PeopleLooker is another reverse email lookup that provides information about the owner of an email address.

Like other reverse email lookups, it is essentially based on publicly available information. When you search an email address with the service, it sifts through millions of public records and social media pages to retrieve relevant data associated with the email address.

For example, below is a PeopleLooker sample report from our test. It shows a series of relevant matches for the Gmail address. Clicking on each name opens a detailed report on the individual.

4. Social Catfish

Social Catfish is another powerful people search tool, boasting one of the most comprehensive collections of public records, dating site profiles, and background information. It allows you to verify the identity of someone you’ve met online, check someone’s profiles on different social media/dating sites, and view detailed background information using just an email address.

Here is the result we got from Social Catfish. It lists possible owners of the email address. To access the complete report, you need to purchase a membership.

5. Spokeo

Spokeo also provides a powerful email lookup and it’s the fastest tool on the market. This service gathers all available information from public sources and stores it in one database, providing an easy way to confidentially look up information about anyone.

We noticed that Spokeo’s reverse email search results vary from those of other services we tested, highlighting potential social media accounts associated with the email address. During our test, this tool excels in locating social networks, blog posts, and other web-based traces.

Clicking the VIEW MORE SOCIAL RESULTS link allows you to explore possible social media profiles owned by the person. From there you can see if you can find any identifying information about the individual.

Alternatively, you can click the SEE RESULTS button to view a detailed background report on the possible owners. The report might reveal information such as the person’s current and past addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, social media profiles, court records, and more.

6. PeopleFinders

PeopleFinders is a public records service that aims to provide people’s background information and contact details. With its fast and easy-to-use email lookup tool, you can discover who is behind a Gmail address in just one search.

What we like most about the tool is, unlike many other people search sites, PeopleFinders explains what the report did and didn’t find before you pay and it even allows you to view a few details of the search result for free, such as the person’s age, family members, and the first few digits of his/her phone number.