How to Find Someone on Snapchat with Name, Phone Number and Other Methods

You can find someone on Snapchat using the app’s inbuilt features like the search bar, sync contacts, and quick add. However, finding a specific profile is challenging since the Snapchat app has over 375 million active daily users.

Hence, you can use third-party services to find someone on Snapchat using their username, name, phone number, and a reverse image search.
We’ve prepared this guide to take you through the steps for each method of finding someone on Snapchat:

• if you know person’s username;
• if you know only the name;
• if you have the person’s phone number;
• if you know the person’s email address;
• if this person is near you;
• if you have the person’s image.

Use Snapchat Username Search

Snapchat’s inbuilt features can help you search for a Snapchat account using their username.

Use the Search Bar

The search bar feature can help you see a Snapchat user with a specific username. This way, you can track someone if you are keen on monitoring Snapchat using parental controls to find out who your kid chats with on Snapchat.

1. Open the Snapchat app and tap the magnifying glass icon in the top-left corner.
2. Tap a person’s username on the search bar. Snapchat users will appear when you type. You will see a username and a display name.
3. If the profile of the person you are searching appears, tap the (Add) icon to add them as friends.

Snapchat Username Search without Account via BeenVerified

BeenVerified can find someone’s Snapchat using their username, even if you don’t have a Snapchat account. Here’s how to use the platform to find a Snapchat profile.

1. Create your account on BeenVerified.
2. Enter the username and click search.
   
3. BeenVerified will show results with all social media accounts associated with that username.
4. Click on the link to take you straight to that Snapchat profile.
   

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How to Find Someone on Snapchat With Just Their Name

You can find someone on Snapchat without the username but using their real name. People search sites can show you all the social media profiles associated with a name.

Based on our research, the Spokeo people search tool is the best option for finding Snapchat accounts using a person’s name.

1. Go to spokeo.com and create an account.
2. Enter the person’s name in the search bar.
   
3. Spokeo will give you all the social media sites found using the person’s name.
4. Click on the Snapchat icon to go to the person’s Snapchat profile.

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Search Someone’s Snapchat by Phone Number

Snapchat also lets you find friends by using the phone numbers on your phone.

Syncing Contacts

Follow these steps to find someone on Snapchat by syncing contacts.

1. Open Snapchat and tap your profile icon.
2. Scroll down and tap Add Friends.
   
3. Choose All Contacts and tap Continue on the popup that appears.
4. Select a friend from the contact list under [Already on Snapchat] and tap [Add]. The icon will change to [Added], and you can start messaging that person immediately.
   

Use Intelius to Find Someone on Snapchat with Phone Number

Intelius helps to find Snapchat friends online. You only need the phone number to search millions of records to know a person’s social media profiles, even if you don’t have profiles on those platforms.

1. Go to Intelius and enter the person’s phone number.
   
2. Intelius will return results with the person’s information, including their social media accounts. It will also provide usernames and URLs associated with the phone number’s owner.
   
3. Check to see the link that leads to Snapchat; that is how you will find someone on Snapchat without a username.

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How to Find Someone on Snapchat via Email

Another method of finding someone on Snapchat is to use a reverse email lookup tool. Truthfinder is a service that offers detailed information with just an email after testing various platforms.

It’s worth noting, that in contrary to other reverse lookup methods, email lookup works not only for the USA but for any email address.

Follow these steps to find someone on Snapchat via email on Truthfinder:

1. Go to truthfinder.com and choose search by email.
2. Enter the person’s email and click search.
   
3. Truthfinder will give you several email reports. Click on the one you would like to view.
4. The email report will contain the owner’s name, social media profiles, and other contact details.
5. Click on the social media result that contains details about their Snapchat, such as their username and the URL to go to the Snapchat account.
   

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How to Find People Near You on Snapchat

Adding people near you on Snapchat uses the Snap Map feature with the location turned on.

1. Open Snapchat and tap the Snap Map button in the bottom-left corner. You’ll see your current location on Snapchat along with the location of your friends who are nearby.
   
2. To find new people near you, there are two methods:
   1. Tap on the location or place where you want to find somebody.
      
      Tip: to see areas where people are gathered, click on the globe icon “Hot Spots”. These areas will be marked with colored spots.
      
   2. Zoom to choose a certain place and tap on the image in a blue circle near its name.
      
      Or you can use Search feature to enter a name of a place where you wan to find people.
      
3. As you see, Snap Map shows people’s videos in the places near you. When you open the video, you can see the author and when it was published.
   
   Thus, you can choose the most recent video in the nearest place to find the person behind it and add them to your friends.
   

Other Methods of Finding Someone on Snapchat

If other methods fail, you can use a Google search or reverse image search to find people on Snapchat.

Google Search

Here’s how to find someone’s Snapchat using Google Search:

1. Open google.com and type in the person’s name and other identifying details like their job title or address. In addition, include the word “Snapchat” in the search query, then click search.
2. Google will return results with results that have the person’s Snapchat username. Now, you can do a Snapchat search using their username to see their profile and possibly have them on your friends list.

Use Reverse Image Search

You can do a reverse image search on Google if you have the person’s photo — you can take it from any other person’s social media platform.

1. Open Google and choose the search by image feature. It’s the camera icon on the Google search bar.
2. Upload an image file or paste an image link.
3. Google will provide with you with the image sources. If that image has been used on Snapchat, you can visit the user’s profile by following the source link provided by Google.

Alternatively, you can use other reverse image search sites like Social Catfish. On here, you can see the social media sites linked to that particular image.

Here’s how to use Social Catfish to uncover a person’s Snapchat:

1. Go to socialcatfish.com and upload an image.
2. Wait for the platform to scan data.
3. Social Catfish will match the image to its exact social media profile. Hence, if the image is on Snapchat, Social Catfish will show you whose profile it belongs to.

Conclusion

Finding someone on Snapchat is easy with the methods we have outlined here. Using Snapchat features like the search bar to find someone using their username is fast, and syncing contacts also provides an easy way of finding someone on Snapchat.

On the other hand, third-party tools can prove helpful, especially when you don’t have a Snapchat account or don’t know person’s username.

Spokeo is excellent for finding Snapchat profiles using a person’s name. You can use Intelius to find Snapchat users by phone number, while Truthfinder will give you the associated Snapchat profiles via email addresses.