USPhonebook.com: What a Reverse Lookup Reveals, and How to Get Off It

USPhonebook.com is a free reverse-phone-lookup site: type in a number and it returns the name attached to it, the person's city and relatives, no account required. Most people find it the other way round, by searching their own name and discovering that their cell number is sitting on a public page. This article covers what the site is and what a USPhonebook search shows, then whether it's legitimate and how to remove yourself, with the click-by-click version in our USPhonebook opt-out guide. Every claim about the site below was re-checked against it on September 21, 2026.

What is USPhonebook.com?

The name suggests a directory, and usphonebook.com is closer to that than most of its rivals: the phone number is the key, and everything else hangs off it. The homepage title is "Free Reverse Phone Lookup & Search," and the search box opens on the Phone tab, with Name and Address tabs beside it. All three searches are free to view, with ads paying for the page. The homepage promises "2.5+ Billion Records" and "100% Free No Signup Required," and the copyright line runs from 2016. Its advertise page, written for ad buyers, claims "10M+ Monthly Users" and "6,000+ Data Sources."

Its privacy notice, last updated September 14, 2026, states that "USPhonebook.com is not a Consumer Reporting Agency (CRA) as defined by the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA)," which is the standard people-search position and the one we come back to below. The notice never names a company, and neither does the About page. And the earlier version of this page got one thing wrong, along with most other write-ups: there is now something to buy. The "Sign In" link in the header goes to USPhoneBook Pro, a subscription report product covered below with its prices.

Who owns USPhonebook?

The answer comes from California's data broker registry rather than from the site. USPhoneBook.com is one of ten trade names registered by Mississippi Tornado Alley, LLC of 1915 21st Street, Sacramento. The company's own comment on the filing begins "We operate the following websites" and lists them:

Two things in the registry say more than the site does. Enformion, LLC, the wholesale data company whose "EnformionGO" API the USPhonebook footer advertises as "our partner," files its own registration from the same street address, 1915 21st Street, Sacramento. The registry shows it operating none of the ten sites, so the most that can be said is that the two companies share a building and a footer link. And Peoplefinders, LLC files separately from San Francisco. Older guides, including earlier versions of this page and of our PeopleFinders profile, called USPhonebook a PeopleFinders sister site. Nothing in the current registry supports that, and the two sites keep separate listings and separate opt-out forms. Where the names still meet is on the record page: PeopleFinders.com is one of the sponsors paying for the "Paid Results" rows under a free USPhonebook record, next to TruthFinder and Intelius.

The same registration carries the company's own numbers for 2024, reported for all ten sites together: 1,204,017 opt-out-of-sale requests received, 993,412 honoured in full and 207,021 denied, roughly one in six, with a median response time of one day. It reports zero deletion requests, which fits a company that treats removal as an opt-out from sale rather than as a deletion. The filing also states that an opt-out submitted on any one of the ten sites "will apply across all sites," while the opt-out for data collected online has to be filed on each site separately. In our own removal work we have not seen a USPhonebook request clear a matching listing on FastPeopleSearch or the others, so we treat each site as its own job and suggest you do too.

What a USPhonebook search shows

Here is a real results page from our capture work, for the most common name in the country, with the identifying details blacked out.

Two hundred and forty-five records for one name when we shot that page, and 247 when we ran the same search again on September 21, 2026. Each card on the list shows a name and age with a current city and prior cities, then a row of relatives. The street address and phone numbers are held back behind a "VIEW FULL ADDRESS & PHONE" button, and that button is free. Open the record and you get the current street address with the months the site thinks the person arrived and was last seen there, then previous addresses with their dates. Every phone number the site has tied to the person is listed, each labelled wireless or landline with the carrier that issued it.

Then come the parts most people don't expect on a phone directory. The record we opened on September 21 carried a birth month and year, two email addresses in full and a "Workplace" block naming a job title and city. Here is what the free views show, against what the site's own paid tier promises:

The right-hand column changes the "nothing to buy" line that we and most other guides used to run. Every free record page carries two buttons, "Search Background Report" at the top and "View Full Background Report" at the bottom, and both go to pro.usphonebook.com, the operator's own subscription product, rather than to a partner. Its pricing page sells report credits: Essential at $19.88 a month for 50 reports, Professional at $49.98 a month for 250, with a 3-month term at 16% off. One credit unlocks one "complete background profile," and unused credits don't roll over. The Pro site claims "700M+ Records," a different number from the "2.5+ Billion Records" on the free homepage, whose FAQ still says there are "no premium subscription upgrades." Both statements are on the site today.

Below the site's own buttons sit the partner rows. On the record page we opened, "Paid Results Sponsored by" blocks came from three paid sites: TruthFinder, Intelius, PeopleFinders. On the reverse-lookup page there were four: BeenVerified, Intelius, PeopleLooker, TruthFinder. Those hand you to another company's checkout. In our broker catalog we file rows like these as storefronts rather than as separate holders of your data: the partner already had the record, and the button is an ad.

Reverse phone lookup: what a number returns

The reverse-lookup page is the site's front door, and its URL is just the number, in the shape usphonebook.com/870-352-1358. We ran the current number from the record above back through it. The page named the owner and gave the city and ZIP. It listed nine relatives by name and identified the carrier as Verizon Wireless. It also gave a "connection status" of "not connected." The full street address sits one free click away behind "GET DETAILS."

Searching USPhonebook by name

"Usphonebook.com search by name" is the second most common query about the site, and the answer is that the Name tab on the homepage does the same thing as the URL usphonebook.com/first-last, with /ST on the end to narrow to a state. That is the direct URL our scanning engine reads, without touching the search box, and it's the page a stranger lands on from Google. Record pages use the shape /first-last/{id}, and the name half is cosmetic: when we requested a record under the wrong name with the right id, the site served the record and rewrote the URL to the right name.

The cookie-consent dialog is a third-party widget rendered inside a browser shadow root, and ordinary automation can't dismiss it. Our capture tooling had to be taught to, and record pages also sit behind a Cloudflare check that plain HTTP clients fail. For a reader this mostly means: if the site hangs or the consent banner won't go away, a private window usually clears it.

Is USPhonebook legit?

It's a real site showing real data, run by a registered California data broker. The free search is what it says it is. The "is usphonebook legit" search usually comes from someone who just saw their own cell number on a public page and wants to know if that can be right.

It can be. Phone numbers reach the site through the same channels as everything else in this industry: public records and old directory data, plus commercial marketing files where you once typed your number into a form. The number is real more often than the rest of the record is. The address may be years stale and the "relatives" may include a former housemate. The same person often appears twice because two sources spelled the name differently. The site's own contact page concedes the point about relatives: they are "reasonably assumed to be associated" and "may never have known each other."

One caution on the word legit: the "Paid Results" rows belong to other companies, so clicking one starts a different site's funnel with its own trial terms.

Is it legal for USPhonebook to publish this?

Yes. Republishing public-record and directory data is legal in the US, and the FCRA disclaimer quoted above is what keeps the site outside the one federal law that would give you dispute rights. Because USPhonebook says its data can't be used for hiring or credit decisions, it owes you no process for correcting an error. Anyone can look you up for any other reason.

The opt-out is the state-law route, and the site's paperwork is candid about how it sees it. The notice at collection says the data products "use publicly available information, which is not covered by U.S. state privacy laws," and that a request to opt out of sale will be applied to that data "as a courtesy." The removal form's own preamble says the right applies "depending on your state of residence." The same notice says "opt-out requests do not require verification," and the form never asks where you live. We cover what that state phrasing has meant on the sister sites in our FastBackgroundCheck profile. One thing the site does not do is link the form from its footer. The footer lists a privacy policy and a notice at collection but no "Do Not Sell" link, so you reach the form through the notice or by typing the URL.

What being listed on USPhonebook means for you

A reverse phone lookup is the specific risk here. Every other site starts from a name; this one lets a stranger start from a number. A missed call, a number on a flyer, a digit string in a group chat: any of those becomes your name and your home address in one search, with your relatives listed underneath. That is the starting kit for doxxing and for the spoofed "this is your bank" calls that are more convincing when the caller already knows your address. The record page adds two things a phone directory never used to hold: your email addresses in full and your employer, which turns a number into a way to reach you at work.

For anyone dealing with a stalker or an abusive ex, a free reverse lookup on your cell number is a page to remove today.

USPhonebook removal: how to opt out

The USPhonebook opt out is free and takes a few minutes plus a wait for an email. It runs in the order the Mississippi Tornado Alley sites all use: you give a name and an email address first, before you've pointed at any record, then the site emails you a link to the real form. Our USPhonebook opt-out guide walks every screen against our own captures.

1. Search yourself on the site first by name and by number. Note the age and city on the listing that's yours. The final form has to match that record, and the page warns that "omitting information or providing inaccurate information on the opt-out form will only hinder the opt-out process."
2. Go to usphonebook.com/removal. The address /opt-out redirects there too, and the footer's "Notice at collection" link carries an "Opt-Out Form" link if you'd rather click than type. The page is headed "US Phone Book Opt-Out Form."
3. Set the "I am" dropdown to "The subject of the request." Enter your first and last name plus an email address you can open now, then tick the authorization box and pass the CAPTCHA. Press "Begin Removal Process." Nothing is removed at this step. It only asks the site to email you a link.
4. Open the email the same day and click the link. "If you wait more than 24 hours to click this link you will need to request a new one," the page says. Check spam if it hasn't arrived.
5. Fill in the form the link opens so it matches the record from step 1. You land on a confirmation page and get a confirmation email. The page asks you to "allow 3 days for your request to be fully processed."
6. After the 3 days, search your name and your number again in a private window. Then do the sister sites, because a removal here clears nothing there.

The form is worth a second look if you've already done one of the sister sites. When we compared it with PeopleSearchNow's opt-out page in September 2026, the four numbered steps and the "I am" dropdown matched line for line, and so did every field name. The only differences were the brand name and the one-sentence preamble about your state of residence, which USPhonebook carries and PeopleSearchNow doesn't. Do the sister sites next: our FastPeopleSearch and FastBackgroundCheck guides cover two of them.

If the online form won't work for you, the notice at collection names a phone lane for the same request at 888-747-4095. The contact page lists (469) 983-2441 for general support along with a postal box in Dallas. We haven't tested the phone route. The Pro site carries its own "Do Not Sell" link, and we haven't tested whether a removal on the free site also drops a Pro report, so if you find one on yourself, file there as well.

Common questions about USPhonebook

Is USPhonebook free?

The searches and the record page are free, with no account and no card. So is the opt-out. What costs money is USPhoneBook Pro, the operator's own subscription at $19.88 or $49.98 a month, reached from the "View Full Background Report" button on every record, plus the sponsored rows from other paid sites underneath. If you only want to know who called, you never need either.

Is USPhonebook legit and safe to use?

It is a real site run by a registered California data broker, and the free pages don't ask you for anything. There is no USPhonebook app that we can point you to. The site links to no app store, and the only login it has is the Pro web account, so anything in an app store using the name is a third party.

Why is my information on USPhonebook?

Because the company compiled it from sources you never dealt with. The privacy notice says its data products come from publicly available information and from "data suppliers," and the contact page names the kinds of source: phone directories, property records, voter registration cards, even magazine subscriptions. Your number got matched to your name and address by software, and nobody asked you.

How do I search USPhonebook.com by name?

Use the Name tab on the homepage, or go straight to usphonebook.com/first-last (add /ST for a state). If you're checking yourself, run your name once without a state and page through the results, because the site files the same person under middle initials and maiden names as separate records. Then run your mobile number through the Phone tab, since that's the door a stranger would use.

Is "US Phone Book" the same site as USPhonebook.com?

Yes. There is no separate US Phone Book directory. The spaced spelling comes from the site's own opt-out page, which is headed "US Phone Book Opt-Out Form," and the "us phone book com" and "usphonebook con" searches are the same domain typed from memory.

Does searching a number on USPhonebook notify the person?

No. The homepage says the site will never "notify the person you're looking up," and the contact page repeats that searches are confidential. The same applies in reverse: you get no alert when someone looks you up, so checking your own number now and then is the only way to know it's listed.

How long does USPhonebook removal take?

The form asks for 3 days after you complete the emailed step, and the company told California its median response time across all ten sites was one day. Give it the 3 days, then search your name and your number again in a private window.

When the USPhonebook listing comes back

The site says it will. Its notice at collection reads: "we regularly receive new public records so even if you opt out, your publicly available information may appear in our Data Products again in the future. We recommend you periodically refresh your opt-out request." That is re-listing, described by the company that does it.

On USPhonebook a returned listing is usually a fresh record with a new id in the URL, built from new data: a number you ported, a lease in a new city, a name variant that your first request didn't cover. The tell on this site is the phone page, because the number is the key. If your mobile number returns your name at usphonebook.com/your-number, you are listed again, whatever the name search says.

To check, open a private window and run your mobile number, then your name without a state, paging through the results rather than stopping at the first card. Do this after the 3-day window closes and again every few months, and re-search the sister sites at the same time. If a record is there, the re-file step is the whole flow again from the top, because the site keeps no memory of your earlier request: request the link, click it inside 24 hours, fill the form to match the new record, then wait the 3 days.

A reverse-lookup site is one you check by number, not just by name, and that's an extra thing to remember every quarter. Delist My Data is built to remember it for you, on USPhonebook and across the rest of the people-search sites, and to re-file when a listing comes back. We're in pre-launch. Founding-member access starts with the waitlist.