How to Find Someone's Email Address

This article explains how to find email addresses using Google. There are also email search sites and address directories to help you find the information you need.

Search for Someone's Email Address Online

Finding somebody's email address can be difficult. Without an email domain name to reference or an organization to classify them in (like @gmail.com or @company.com), your search instantly becomes extremely broad. If you know their name, however, you can search the internet for any information related to the person, which might help you determine their email address.

The simplest way to start an internet search to find someone's email address is to type not only their name but any information about them. The goal is to find a resource that groups their identifiable information with their email address.

Find Email Addresses Within a Certain Website

This is your best method of finding an email address: Hope they listed it publicly on their social media profile (if they have one). To do this, use Google to search for what you know within a website that you suspect they use.

Try searches like this:

• site:twitter.com “first last”
• site:facebook.com “first last”

Replace first last with the name of the person whose email you're looking for, but be sure to keep the quotes around the name to make sure Google looks for that entire phrase. If that doesn't work, drop the first name or last name, but that will broaden the search and make it harder to find who you're looking for.

Use any website after "site:" so that the search is contained within that website only. If you tried searching for "first last" without using a website like above, you'll get more results than necessary, making it more difficult to find their email address.

Use an Existing Username

If you know a username they use on one website, search Google for that same username. The less common the username, the greater the odds that you'll find their profiles (and hopefully email address).

For example, if they have an X (formerly Twitter) or Facebook profile that uses the “D89username781227” username. Since most people use the same username on multiple platforms, there's a good chance that this will find those other profiles:

• D89username781227

All you do is search for that one username, but if you know their name too, or any of the other information mentioned above, add that to the mix:

• “first last” D89username781227

More Email Search Options

Think about anything that might be related to this person, but keep it concise. Don't enter whole sentences into Google and expect it to find a web page with all of that information; it likely won't.

For example, if you know the person's profession (such as a baker), they may have a website that includes that word, which might provide a contact page or an email address. For example:

• “first last” baker

Combine this with the website-specific search above for more refined search results:

• site:twitter.com “first last” baker

If you know they have a website, use common words like this:

• “first last” baker contact

Some websites use the word “contact” in the URL for the contact page, so a search like this might prove to be beneficial too:

• “first last” baker inurl:contact

Maybe they have a nickname that you should look for instead. If they have a hobby that you know they made online profiles for, try looking for that word too.

An address or city name is helpful as well, like this:

• “first last” baker Dellwood

Since many online records are listed as public records, use that option too:

• “first last” inurl:public Dellwood

Do you know the email domain they use? If they use Gmail, Yahoo, or Outlook, you might have more luck finding the full address if you include those in your search too:

• “first last” @gmail.com Dellwood