Skip Trace People Search

Find people in the US by name, or find out who is behind a phone number. Every match comes back as its own structured record — age, aliases, relatives, address history and phone numbers.

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What it does

Search by name and get every matching person as a separate record: their age, the other names they go by, their relatives with ages, the cities they have lived in, and their phone numbers where those are publicly listed.

Search by phone number and get the number's possible owners — their other phone numbers, relatives, cities — plus the carrier, the line type and a spam-risk rating for the number itself.

Built for:

• Investigators & skip tracers — locate people who have moved or changed contact info
• HR & background checks — verify identity and address history
• Legal & collections — find address history and phone numbers for service of process
• Real estate — identify property owners and their contact information
• Sales & lead enrichment — append location and identity data to contact lists

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Search modes

Mode	Input	What you get
Name	First + last name, optionally narrowed by state and city	Each matching person as a separate record: age, aliases, relatives with ages, address history, phone numbers
Phone	Any US phone number	The number's possible owners with their other phone numbers, relatives and cities, plus carrier, line type and spam risk

Batch mode runs many searches in a single run.

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Output fields

Field	Description
fullName	Full name
firstName / lastName	Split name fields
age	Age in years
aliases	Other names the person is known by (up to 10)
currentAddress	Most recent known location
previousAddresses	Address history (up to 10 locations)
phoneNumbers	Phone numbers linked to the person (up to 15)
relatives	Relatives and associates, with their ages where published (up to 20)
phoneLookup	Phone search only — carrier, lineType (landline/mobile/VoIP) and spamRisk
nameIsMasked	Phone search only — true when the source published the owner's surname masked
profileUrls	Link to the person's public profile, when one exists
dataSources	Which sources contributed to this record
searchQuery	The input query that produced this result
scrapedAt	When the data was scraped

Good to know

• Phone numbers appear on a portion of name-search records — public listings publish them for some people and not others. Every record still carries name, age, aliases, relatives and address history.
• Phone search returns the owner's surname masked (Alexander A**), because that is how the source publishes it. Records are flagged with nameIsMasked, and no surname is ever guessed. Relatives are returned in full and can be used for a follow-up name search.
• Email addresses are not included.

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Input options

Field	Description	Default
searchType	name or phone	name
firstName	First name (for name search)	—
lastName	Last name (for name search)	—
state	US state abbreviation to narrow results	—
city	City to narrow results	—
phone	Phone number, any format (for phone search)	—
queries	Array of queries for batch mode	—
maxResults	Max person records per query (1–20)	5
fetchPhoneNumbers	Look up phone numbers on public profiles (slower)	true
sources	Which sources to query	radaris, spokeo

Batch mode

Search for multiple people in one run by passing a queries array:

{
  "searchType": "name",
  "maxResults": 3,
  "queries": [
    { "firstName": "John", "lastName": "Smith", "state": "CA" },
    { "firstName": "Jane", "lastName": "Doe", "state": "NY", "city": "New York" }
  ]
}

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Example output

Name search — each matching person is returned as their own record. Values below are illustrative:

{
  "fullName": "John J Smith",
  "firstName": "John",
  "lastName": "Smith",
  "age": 39,
  "aliases": ["John A Smith", "John K Smith"],
  "currentAddress": { "street": null, "city": "Kenmore", "state": "NY", "zip": null },
  "previousAddresses": [
    { "street": null, "city": "Buffalo", "state": "NY", "zip": null },
    { "street": null, "city": "Amherst", "state": "NY", "zip": null }
  ],
  "phoneNumbers": [
    { "number": "(716) 555-0142", "type": "unknown" },
    { "number": "(716) 555-0177", "type": "unknown" }
  ],
  "relatives": [
    { "name": "Deloris Smith", "age": 64 },
    { "name": "Jeremy Smith", "age": 33 }
  ],
  "profileUrls": { "radaris": "https://newyorkmaps.radaris.com/person/John-Smith/1655930340" },
  "dataSources": ["radaris"],
  "scrapedAt": "2026-08-21T02:05:12.031Z"
}

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Pricing

$0.30 per person found.

You are charged per person record written to the dataset, so a search with maxResults: 5 that finds five different people costs $1.50. Lower maxResults if you only need the top matches. If a search returns no records, there is no per-result charge. A small Actor start fee applies per run.

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Proxy requirement

This scraper requires US residential proxies — the source sites are geofenced to US IP addresses and block datacenter traffic. Configure Apify Proxy with Residential + US country in the proxy settings before running.

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Integrations

Export results as JSON, CSV, or Excel. Connect to your workflow via:

• Apify API
• Webhooks
• Make (Integromat), n8n, Zapier

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FAQ

Does it work for any US person? It searches publicly available records. Results depend on what is indexed — long-term US residents typically return the richest data.

Can I search for multiple people at once? Yes — use the queries array in batch mode to search for many people in a single run.

Will two people with the same name be merged into one record? No. Records are merged only when something person-specific matches — a shared phone number, email, street address, or a close age within the same state. A shared name alone is never treated as the same person.

Why do some records have phone numbers and others don't? Public listings publish phone numbers for some people and not others. Records without them still include name, age, aliases, relatives and address history.

What happens if a search finds nobody? The run finishes with an empty dataset and no per-result charge. If a source is unreachable, the run fails with the reason instead of quietly returning nothing.

Is the data real-time? Data is fetched live from the source sites on every run. The underlying databases are updated regularly but may not reflect very recent changes.