Identity
Full name lookup
Enter a first and last name and we query public APIs that support name search: GitHub full-name matches, Bluesky accounts, author databases and Wikidata entities. Below the live results you get a curated grid of follow-up searches (search engines, social networks, professional sites, court records, and adult platforms, labelled 18+) built around the exact name.
Common names return many matches; distinctive names work best. Nothing you search is stored.
Names are noisy identifiers. They collide, they transliterate and they change, but the public systems that index them are often surprisingly willing to answer exact name searches. GitHub profiles that list a real name, Wikidata items for notable people, author indexes that map writers to catalogs and Bluesky handles that echo display names all expose a search endpoint that takes a string and returns a set of public entities that match.
This page orchestrates those endpoints in parallel so you can see what a deterministic, name-first sweep returns before you dig into the slower, manual search-engine and people-search layer that follows.
What is queried live and what is a guided pivot
Live queries run against public APIs that support name search: GitHub user search by full name, Bluesky person search, Open Library author search and Wikidata entity search. Results are constrained to public profiles and catalog records and are shown with the source's own metadata, such as follower counts, repository counts or descriptor strings, so you judge relevance directly.
Below those results a grid of guided pivot searches is generated from the exact quoted name. Each tile is a pre-built search on a third-party site, search engines, social platforms, professional directories, court and business registries and adult platforms clearly labeled 18+, opened in a new tab under that site's terms. Pivots are not automated scraping; they are convenience links that reproduce typing the quoted name into each site yourself.
Why some sources are often empty
Empty is a valid negative and reflects coverage, not failure. GitHub finds developers who chose to publish a real name; Wikidata finds notable entities that met notability thresholds; Open Library finds authors with cataloged works. Most non-public figures will appear in few of them, which itself is useful context after a lifetime of thinking the web knows more than it can demonstrate.
Unavailable is different from empty: it means the upstream API did not respond within limits or presented a bot wall. The page distinguishes the two so you do not read a transient outage as absence.
- Expect developer and creative sources to hit only for matching professional cohorts.
- Expect guide pivot searches to surface news, people-search and registry hits more reliably for uncommon names.
- Treat every opened result as governed by the destination site's privacy and reuse terms, not ours.
Ethical use and limits
Searching a name in public indexes is lawful. Using results to harass, stalk, dox, or materially harass a person is prohibited by our terms and by law in most jurisdictions. The intended use is defensive, auditing your own recognizability, or consensual and professional, where the subject has reason to expect a background check and notice has been given.
No aggregator shows a complete portrait. People with common names will see collisions that require disambiguation by location, employer or other distinguishing fields before any conclusion is justified.
Run the name you are known by online and work the first ten pivots. You will quickly see which sources index you, which do not, and where you can reduce exposure by correcting profiles or opting out of broker listings.
How it works
Enter a first and last name. A single distinctive word also works.
We hit every name-search-capable public API concurrently, best effort.
Open any match directly, or continue with one of the twenty-one guided pivot searches.
Questions about this tool
Why are some sources empty?
Each source only knows its own slice of the world. GitHub finds developers who put their real name in their profile, OpenLibrary finds published authors, Wikidata finds notable people. Empty is a valid result, not an error. When a source cannot be reached at all it shows as unavailable.
Is searching someone's name legal?
Looking up names in public indexes and search engines is lawful. What you do with findings is not unrestricted: harassment, doxxing or stalking are prohibited by our terms and by law.
What are the pivot links?
Pre-built searches on third-party sites using the exact quoted name. They open in a new tab so you can work through them quickly; those sites operate under their own terms. The adult row is labelled 18+.