How to Find Someone's Email Address

Co-authored by Candace Gasper and Nicole Levine, MFA

Last Updated: August 24, 2024 Fact Checked

Whether you're trying to reconnect with an old friend or get in touch with a potential client, there are many ways to track down someone's email address. As long as you know the person's name, you can usually find their email address if you know where to look. We'll show you how to find anyone's email address using free tools and tricks on the web.

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Visit their personal or professional website.

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If the person you're looking for has a website, check the Contact, About, or Staff page. Email addresses and other contact information are often displayed prominently on websites. If the person you're looking for doesn't have their own website and you know where they work, check their employer's website for a staff directory or list of employees.^{[1]
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- If the website has a contact form instead of an email address, you can fill out the form to request the email address of the person you're looking for.
- If no contact information is available on the website, try signing up for the person's email list, if they have one. The confirmation message you receive upon sign-up will usually contain contact information.

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Find them on LinkedIn.

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Most LinkedIn users list their email addresses in their contact info. If the person you're looking for has a LinkedIn profile, just log into your own LinkedIn account, go to the person's profile, and then click Contact info at the top of their profile to find their email address.^{[2]
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- You can quickly find someone's LinkedIn profile by searching for the person's name and linkedin. If the name is common, include the company name in your search.

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Google them.

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You might be able to find someone's email address by searching for their name and the word "email" or "contact." If the person's name is common, try including more identifying information in your search, such as their name, location, company, or job title. You can even try searching for the person's phone number to see if it's connected to an email address somewhere on the web.
- If you know part of the person's email address, try searching for just that part of the address surrounded by quotation marks. For example, "jon.williams" or "@wikihow.com"
- You can also search for email addresses and contact pages on a website using Google. For example, if you wanted to find email addresses at Microsoft.com, you could search for site:microsoft.com email or site:microsoft.com contact.

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Perform a Whois search on their domain name.

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If the person you're looking has a domain name, search for it at https://who.is. If the person's domain registration information is public, you will find the owner's email address in their contact information.
- Many domain owners hide their contact information from their domain registration for privacy reasons, so this won't work for all domains.

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Find them on social media.

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Facebook "About" sections are another place people often list their email addresses. If you can find the person on Facebook, you may get lucky and find discover they've included their email address and/or other contact information right on their profile. Here's how to check:^{[3]
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- On a computer, click the About tab at the top of the person's profile, then click Contact and basic info.
- On a phone or tablet, tap See [name's] About Info and scroll to the "Contact Info" section.
- If the person also has a Facebook Page for their business or organization, check there as well.
- Sometimes people also include their email addresses in their Twitter, Instagram, or TikTok profiles.

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Try a professional email lookup service.

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If you're trying to track down a professional or high-profile individual, a lookup service will be helpful. Most of these services allow you to look up a few email addresses at no cost, but most require you to pay for more searches after that. A few popular options:
- Apollo is a Gmail and LinkedIn extension that lets you look up 50 email addresses a month for free.^{[4]
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- Contact Out is a LinkedIn extension that can help you find 50 work or personal email addresses for free each month.^{[5]
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- FindThatEmail is a Chrome extension that can help you find and verify 50 email addresses per month at no cost.
- FindThatLead lets you perform up to 50 searches per month at no cost. There's also a Social Search feature that can help you find the email address of a social media influencer by providing their profile link.^{[6]
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- Hunter lets you look up email addresses for up to 25 domains for free each month.^{[7]
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- Lusha is a LinkedIn extension that lets you look up 5 email addresses for free each month.
- Tomba email finder - With 430+ million email addresses indexed, effective search filters, and deliverability checks, Tomba's email finder is its most powerful tool
- Voila Norbert lets you search for 50 email addresses per month and will be most helpful if you know the person's name and employer website.^{[8]
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Make an educated guess.

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If you know the person's full name and where they work, you may be able to infer their email address based on that information. Try to find a public email address for an employee at the same company, and then plug in the name of the person you're looking for.
- For example, firstnamelastname@company.com or firstname.lastname@company.com. Some other variations:
  - first_last@company.com
  - firstinitialLast@company.com (e.g. brubble@company.com for Barney Rubble)
  - last@company.com
  - FirstMiddleinitialLast@company.com
- Many people have email addresses @gmail.com and @outlook.com, so you can use the same logic there—just replace their company domain with @gmail.com or @outlook.com.
- Perform a web search for the email you come up with. This can help you determine if the address is legitimate before you test it out. You may find links to their social networks, in which case you'll know you have the right email address.

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Try an email permutation tool.

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An email permutation tool will suggest possible email addresses based on information you already know. This is a great option if your educated guessing didn't yield positive results. Some free options:
- Brainlabs has a free Google Sheets tool that lets you enter a first, middle, and last name along with a domain name. The tool will then display dozens of possible email addresses you can try.
- Name2email is a Gmail plugin that will try to guess email addresses for you as long as you know the person's domain name.
- The Polished Email Permutator lets you search for email addresses at multiple domains at once.

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Reach out in other ways.

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If you can't reach someone via email, you can send them private direct messages on Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, Snapchat, and virtually every other social media platform.^{[9]
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