Use the Email Finder to find a person's professional email address from their first and last name and the company or domain they work for.

👉 If you only have a company name or domain, use Domain Search to find emails for that company instead.

How to find the email of a professional contact

Go to the Email Finder.
Enter the person's first and last name.
Enter the domain, website or company name they work for.

👉 If you're not sure of the domain or only know the company name, pick a match from the autocomplete suggestions.

If you only know the first letter of someone's last name, enter it as an initial (for example, "John S"). Hunter expands it to the full surname as long as only one person at that company matches. If more than one person matches, Hunter won't guess.

The Email Finder also handles compound and multi-word names such as "Jean-Pierre", "van der Berg" or "Maria Del Carmen". You don't need to simplify or split these names before searching.

Reading the result: sources, confidence and verification

Hunter returns the email address based on available public sources. You'll find the exact sources at the bottom of the result:

If there are no sources, the email address shows an "Inferred" tag:

This means Hunter inferred the email address from public data found at the domain level, then checked it with the Email Verifier.

How Hunter verifies the email

Every email goes through a free verification check before it's returned, and the result shows its status so you know whether it's safe to use.

In most cases, the address you get back has been freshly verified as deliverable.

If a check fails only temporarily, for example because the company's mail server didn't respond in time, Hunter doesn't rule the address out. It re-verifies it instead of discarding it.

If verification can't confirm a deliverable address, the Email Finder may instead return a previously stored address or an accept-all alternative for that domain. These carry more uncertainty than a fully verified match.

See what each verification status means.

What if no email is found?

If Hunter can't find a reliable match for the name you entered, the Email Finder lets you know that no email address was found. No credits are used for searches that return no result.

This can happen when:

There's little or no public data about this person at the company.
The name matches more than one person, for example an initial shared by several people.
The company's mail server couldn't be verified at the time of your search.

If other email addresses exist for that domain, click "See results for [domain]" to view them in Domain Search, or click "Follow this company" to get notified when new email addresses become available.

Store the emails found as leads

Every email you find with the Email Finder is saved automatically to your Leads list, in the "All people" list by default. To organize it further:

Click "Add to a list" next to the result.
Choose an existing list or create a new one.

Add a lead to an email sequence

Click "Add to a sequence" to add the email you found to an existing or new email sequence.

👉 You can send emails to new leads directly from Hunter with Sequences, included on all plans.

Find emails for several contacts at once

To find emails for a list of contacts, click "Find email addresses from a list" to open the Bulk Email Finder.

Find more emails within a company

If other emails exist for the domain, you can run a full Domain Search directly from the result.

Find similar leads with Lookalikes

After an Email Finder search, Hunter may suggest Lookalikes: a short list of other leads with a similar profile to the contact you found, such as a similar department, role, or seniority level.