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Data Broker Reference List: The Major People-Search Sites and What They List

2026.06.26
Whitepages was the first name on my spreadsheet, and it's also the fastest re-lister I've tracked — I opted out in March 2024, checked back six weeks later, and there I was again, same address, same phone number, like nothing had happened. That's the thing this table is for: these eleven sites aren't interchangeable copies of each other, they're eleven separate companies with separate data, separate opt-out forms, and (in my experience) wildly different memories for "no." A quick note on how I built this before you scroll past it — I went back to each site's own about/data page this week and kept only the categories and numbers they currently publish, not whatever a roundup post has been repeating since 2021. A few had quietly dropped stats I'd seen quoted for years (Whitepages no longer advertises a "250 million people" figure anywhere on its own site, for one), so I didn't repeat those either. Where a site's old about page had gone missing — Intelius pulled its /about/ URL at some point in the last year — I used whichever current page actually backs the claim, and noted it in the sources.

Major People-Search Sites and Data Categories

The table below is what each platform's own current site says it collects and how big it claims to be — not marketing copy filtered through somebody else's summary. Where a site didn't publish a number I could verify, I left the description qualitative instead of making one up.

Platform Primary Data Categories Listed Estimated Record Volume / Scope Opt-Out Availability
Whitepages Phone numbers, criminal/public background reports, and property ownership & occupancy data [1], plus verified email addresses on paid Premium plans [2]. Reverse phone lookup alone covers 260 million U.S. phone numbers [3]. Yes (suppression request form)
Spokeo Contact info, location history, photos, social media accounts, family members, court records, and work information [4]. Serves about 23 million people a month, organizing over 12 billion records from thousands of sources [4]. Yes (URL-based request)
BeenVerified Court/criminal records, deed & property records, motor vehicle and driving records, phone/address directories, social media profiles, professional license records, and bankruptcy/lien/judgment records [5]. Draws from billions of public records across federal, state, and county sources [6]. Yes (email verification)
TruthFinder Social media, photos, police records, background checks, civil judgments, and contact information [7], plus birth/death records, possible relatives, education and employment history [7], and a separate Dark Web Scan product [7]. Averages about 9 million monthly users and 350 million public records searched, per the site's own stated measurement window [8]. Yes (PeopleConnect portal)
Instant Checkmate Arrest records, phone numbers, addresses, demographic data, and census data [9], plus a registered-sex-offender map included on every criminal report [9]. Its records search scours hundreds of millions of national, state, and local traffic, criminal, and arrest records [9]. Yes (web form)
Pipl 10+ billion global emails, 3+ billion global mobile numbers, and 9+ billion social media usernames, resolved into 28+ billion unique identifiers [10]. Now positioned as an enterprise fraud-intelligence and identity-verification vendor rather than a consumer people-search tool. Identity graph spans more than 5 billion identities and 740 billion signals, built over 20+ years [10]. Yes (opt-out request form)
FastPeopleSearch Full name, phone number, address, business phone number, and relatives or connections [11]. Claims 16.5 billion records available, covering about 800 million unique people [11]. Yes (email verification)
TruePeopleSearch Address histories, phone numbers, email addresses, relatives, friends, associates, and property information [12]. Says it holds updated records on nearly every adult in the US, but doesn't publish a specific record count anywhere on its own site [12]. Yes (manual removal)
ZabaSearch Criminal records, addresses, phone numbers, property records, and civil judgments [13]. Now operates as "ZabaSearch, powered by Intelius," rather than as an independent company [13]. Yes (Intelius/PeopleConnect)
Intelius Photos, possible relatives, contact info, location history, birth/death records, education history, arrest records, voter registration, court records, property records, and finances & assets [14]. Describes itself as having billions of available public records [15]. Yes (PeopleConnect portal)
PeopleFinders Address search, phone search, marriage records, divorce records, and property records [16]. One of the most expansive repositories of public records, spanning 40+ years with billions of records from over 6,000 data sources [16]. Yes (web form)
Radaris Social media profiles [17], plus a separate Organizations search for business and professional backgrounds [17], on top of its people, reverse phone, address, and photo search tools. Reports 97% positive reviews, 750K+ satisfied customers, 1,000+ data sources, and billions of records [17]. Yes (profile-specific)

What eighteen months of doing this manually taught me

A few things didn't fit neatly into the table above but matter more than the table does, honestly. Whitepages is the one I'd watch closest if you're re-checking your own listings — it's the fastest re-lister on this page in my own tracking, and its opt-out form (the same one linked in the table) doesn't seem to stick the way the others do. Spokeo's opt-out is URL-based, which sounds convenient until you realize it means keeping a saved link for every listing you've ever removed — I lost track of mine within a month and had to re-search myself from scratch.

I also tried RoboForm's broker-monitoring add-on for about four months and canceled it. It would tell me a listing existed and then hand me the exact same manual opt-out form I could've found myself by searching the site name — for an extra monthly fee on top of the password manager subscription. If a tool only finds the listing and doesn't touch the removal, I don't see what I'm paying for. Contrast that with the paid full-service options (DeleteMe, Incogni), which at least file the requests for you — still worth checking their own re-listing rates before you assume "paid" means "solved," but that's a different article.

One more thing worth saying plainly: Pipl doesn't really belong on a "which people-search site turned up my address" list anymore. It's rebuilt itself into a fraud-and-identity-verification product sold to other businesses, not something an ordinary person searches by name — I'm keeping it here because its opt-out form still exists and some readers will have old profiles sitting in its index, not because it's a search engine you'd use to look someone up.

Data Category Definitions

A short glossary for the terms above — I had to look up a couple of these myself the first time I ran into them on an opt-out form.

Public Records
Information a governmental body is required to maintain and make accessible to the public [18].
Identity Resolution
The process an identity-resolution engine uses to find already-public pieces of personal information about someone and combine them into a single profile [19].
Reverse Lookup
A search that starts with a phone number instead of a name, to find the person or business it belongs to [11].
Opt-Out / Suppression
The process of asking a data broker to take your personal listing off its public search results [20].
Last verified: 2026-07-17

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