Reverse Email Lookup

A reverse email lookup, also called a reverse email search, takes an email address as input and returns information about the person behind it: their full name, job title, company, location, and public social profiles. It is the inverse of an Email Finder, which starts with a name and returns an email address.

Hunter cross-references the email address against its database of professional contacts and public web sources. When we have data on the address, we return the person's name, position, employer, location, and links to their social profiles.

A successful lookup returns the person's full name, job title, company and company domain, location, and public social profiles such as LinkedIn and X.

Run an email owner lookup: paste the address in the search box above and Hunter shows who the email belongs to, with their job title, company, and public profiles.

If there is no result, you can still trace the email address to its owner by hand:

• Read the domain. The part after the @ usually names the company. A personal domain such as gmail.com tells you nothing on its own.
• Check earlier emails. Names, job titles, and phone numbers often sit in the signature of previous messages from the same sender.
• Search the exact address. Put it in quotes in a search engine to find websites, author pages, or public documents where it was published.
• Match the company's address format. If the company uses first.last@ or first@, compare the address against the names on its team or about page.

For professional email addresses, every result is built from sources Hunter found publicly on the web, and data that no longer has a public source is removed after six months. The most common gap is a recent job change: if someone just moved to a new role, the result can show their previous title or company until new public sources appear.

Results for personal addresses such as Gmail are much more limited, because they are rarely tied to public professional data.

Yes. You can run up to 5 reverse email lookups a day, 15 a month, right on this page, with no signup or credit card. This allowance is shared with Hunter's other free demos on the site.

For more, create a free account: the Free plan includes 50 credits every month. If you need more, check the pricing.

Yes. Looking up the professional information linked to an email address is legal, as long as the data comes from public sources. Hunter only returns information found publicly on the web, and our data is GDPR and CCPA compliant.

What you do with the result is what matters: if you contact the person, the usual rules still apply, such as GDPR in the EU and CAN-SPAM in the US. Anyone can view, edit, or remove the data Hunter holds about them by claiming their email address.

No. Hunter doesn't notify the person behind an email address when you run a reverse email lookup.

It helps. If a message claims to come from someone at a company, look up the sender's address: the result shows who it actually belongs to, so you can check the name, role, and company against what the email says. A mismatch is a red flag. No result isn't proof either way, since many legitimate addresses have no public professional footprint.

Security teams use reverse email lookups the same way in OSINT (open-source intelligence) research, because every result comes from public sources.

The Reverse Email Lookup is built for professional email addresses tied to a company domain. Personal webmail addresses such as Gmail are rarely linked to public professional data, so results for them are limited. If you have the person's name instead, try the Email Finder.

Yes, and you can find someone by email for free right on this page. That's exactly what a reverse email lookup does: you start with an email address and get the person behind it. It's easy to mix up with finding someone's email address, which works the other way round: you start with a name and company, and the Email Finder returns their address.

Use the Reverse Email Lookup when an address lands in your inbox and you want to know who it belongs to, and the Email Finder when you know who you want to reach.

Yes, with the Person Enrichment API, so you can find people by email at scale. Send each email address to the API and get back the same data you see here: name, job title, company, location, and social profiles. It's the same lookup, built into your own product, CRM, or spreadsheet workflow.

If we have no data on an address, it is usually because the address is not tied to a publicly listed professional, or the person has changed roles or companies. You can try the Email Finder with the person's name instead.