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What You Can Do on ThisNation
ThisNation is a free people search built on public records. Everything below works without an account, a trial, or a report to buy.
Search by Name
Type a first and last name and get every matching person in our records, each with an age and a current city so you can tell namesakes apart before opening a profile.
Narrow by State and City
Common name? Add a state, then a city, and the list shrinks to the people who actually live there. Each state and city view has its own page you can bookmark or share.
Browse the Surname Directory
Unsure of the spelling, or only know a last name? Start from the A–Z directory, pick a surname, and work down to the full names carried by real people in the records.
See Who Is Connected
A profile lists possible relatives, current neighbors, and known associates, each linked to their own record, so you can follow a family or a household instead of one name.
Follow an Address History
Past addresses appear with the year they were last recorded, next to the current home and, where the records include it, the property’s build year and estimated value.
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Why People Use ThisNation
There are many people search sites. These are the things we decided to do differently.
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There is no paywall behind the search results and no “full report” to unlock. What you see on a profile is what we have.
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Every name, state, city, and surname has a stable address. You can move through the directory like a phone book instead of retyping the same search.
What a Profile Can Show
Depending on what the public records hold, a ThisNation profile can include:
Current Address
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Phone Numbers
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Age
Age and, where the records include it, the full date of birth.
Emails
Email addresses that public sources have associated with the person.
Current Employment
The occupation or employer that appears in the person’s records.
Neighbors
People recorded at nearby addresses, each linked to their own profile.
Address History
Previous addresses in order, with the year each one was last seen in the records.
Relatives
Possible family members, based on shared addresses and household records, linked to their profiles.
FAQs
A people search collects what public records say about a person under one name: where they live, how to reach them, and who they are connected to. ThisNation does this for free, starting from a first and last name.
Public records for adults across the United States: names, ages, addresses, phone numbers, emails, relatives, neighbors, and associates. People use it to reconnect with old friends, classmates, coworkers, or relatives, to check whether an address or phone number is still current, or to see who lives at a property.
The person you look up is not notified, and you do not need an account to search. What we store about visitors, and why, is described in the Privacy Policy.
Enter a name and click “Search.” You get a list of everyone with that name, each with an age and a city. For a common name, add a state or a city in the search bar and the list shrinks to the people who live there; then open the profile that matches.
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Either the public records do not contain that person, or they asked to be removed. Check the spelling first; a single wrong letter changes the results. Also try the name without a state or city, since the person may have moved.
Use the opt-out page: find your record, confirm the request by email, and the profile is removed. If something goes wrong, write to [email protected] and we will handle it by hand.