The assumption here is that you are trying to find someone by name using the internet. The only real limits to finding anything out about anyone are knowing where and how to look. Finding someone by name is certainly doable, given the general context of the question.

Is it the best or fastest way?

No, probably not. Unless, the person has an incredibly unique name, finding them, even using the awesome power of the internet can be a challenge – even for a highly skilled researcher. There are some alternatives that may work better though. Let’s discuss some better tactics:

Everyone has numbers attached to their lives. Finding any number attached to someone’s life can be the fastest way of finding them. It is the very nature of the web to be driven by numbers more than any other single factor. Using this thought process can make finding the seemingly impossible – very possible and even – likely.

Some primary search tactics are the use of services that can provide reverse phone number lookups or reverse cell phone lookups. Most people either have or have had one or both of the kinds of phones we all take for granted. Doing a reverse phone lookup can be the simplest, fastest way to determine not only where someone is located now, but where they lived previously.

Similarly, given the age of wireless technology that encompasses much of what we all do, a reverse cell lookup can achieve the same or similar results. Often, even if someone does not own a land line, doing a reverse number lookup for their cellular phone is often an easy way to trace them too.

Using ReverseTelephoneLookup.org can often yield fast, accurate data that gave a good account of the person’s current residence and even prior residences. Often the data can be used to identify and learn other habits like marital status, home ownership, and find relatives in proximity or across the world. Many databases that contain the numerical information also have volumes of information that can be accessed once the magic of attaching numbers to a person is achieved.

Reverse number lookups remove most of the perceived limitations other web sites or free services may offer. Often the information provided by other sources may be incomplete, dated or simply inaccurate. At best, it is often unreliable.

So, if the question is: can someone be found by name? The answer is a qualified yes, but there are much better, more efficient and faster ways of accomplishing the same thing. Use the numbers virtually everyone has attached to their lives and little is impossible.