Guide · United States and Canada
How to find a business owner's name and phone number
Start with the number the business publishes on Google Maps: across 1,036,929 records we scraped, 46.9% are mobiles, and at a small business a mobile is usually the owner's own phone. Check its line type against the carrier's records, then confirm the owner's name from the website or the state registry.
| Listed numbers that are mobiles | 46.9% of 1,036,929 Google Maps records, measured 5 September 2026; 27.5% landline, 23.1% VoIP |
|---|---|
| How much the trade moves it | From 62.9% mobile (Real Estate Agent) to 12.8% (Software Company) across the 32 trades we count, read 2026-09-25 |
| Listings with no website | 31.1% - for them the listing is the only place a number is published |
| Why the area code cannot tell you | 47.5% of US and Canadian exchanges hold more than one kind of line, and 40.5% of assigned number blocks are wireless |
| With Leadity | A record with a carrier-verified mobile from $0.016; with the owner's name as well from $0.0559 |
Six ways to find it. What each one actually gives you.
| Method | What it gives you |
|---|---|
| The Google Maps listing | A number, often a mobile. No name. |
| The business's own website | Sometimes a name, sometimes a direct line. |
| The state business registry | Names of officers or a registered agent. Rarely a phone. |
| A licensing board | The license holder's name, sometimes a phone. |
| LinkedIn and social profiles | A name and a role. Rarely a number. |
| A lead tool that checks the line type | The listing's number, typed, and the owner's name when it can be confirmed. |
1. The Google Maps listing
The number a business puts on its Google Business Profile is the one it wants called. 46.9% of those numbers are mobiles, and the share depends heavily on the trade: trades that work at the customer's address answer a mobile, trades with a counter and opening hours answer a landline. It is free to look up one at a time and slow to do for a list.
2. The business's own website
An About, Team or Contact page often names the owner, and small businesses sometimes publish a direct number there that differs from the main line. 31.1% of local businesses on Google Maps publish no website at all, so for nearly a third of them there is nothing to read.
3. The state business registry
Every US state and Canadian province runs a public register of companies. It names the registered agent and, in many states, the officers, members or managers - the most authoritative source for who owns a business, and almost never a source for how to call them.
4. A licensing board
Licensed trades - contractors, electricians, plumbers, salons and many more - appear in their state board's public lookup under the name of the person or company holding the license. Some boards list a phone number beside it. It is one of the better free ways to put a name to a trade business.
5. LinkedIn and social profiles
Owners of small businesses often list themselves as owner or founder, which confirms a name. A phone number is seldom public there, and messaging is its own channel rather than a way to a call.
6. A lead tool that checks the line type
This is what Leadity does, for a whole trade and area at once: it scrapes the listings live, classifies every number as mobile, landline or VoIP against the carrier's thousand-block record, and can deliver only the mobiles. Its owner lookup cross-checks public sources and delivers a name only when independent sources agree. A record with a verified mobile is from $0.016; with the owner's name, 3.5 credits, from $0.0559.
Mobile or landline? Why the kind of line matters, and how it is decided.
A landline at a small business rings a counter, a receptionist or a voicemail box; a mobile rings a pocket. That is why the line type is worth knowing before you dial. It is decided by the number's thousand block - the carrier that holds the thousand numbers it belongs to - and not by its area code, which is where the number was assigned and nothing more. The Line Type Report counts every assigned block to show why: 47.5% of exchanges mix kinds of line. Porting breaks the link for some numbers: a block record says what a number was assigned as, and only a live portability lookup, which Leadity does not run per number, shows where a ported number went.
Before you call or text a mobile, check the rules that apply to you: US law regulates both. The TCPA risk checker is a checklist of the safeguards, not legal advice, and this page makes no claim about what the law permits.
Questions.
Often, not always. At an owner-operated business the number on the listing is frequently the owner's own mobile, because there is nobody else to answer it. At a business with staff it may be a shared work phone. A line type tells you it is a mobile; only a name check tells you whose.
No. An area code says where a number was assigned, not what kind of line it is, and even the exchange is not enough: 47.5% of exchanges hold blocks belonging to carriers of different kinds. The number's own thousand-block record is what answers it.
At a small business the decision-maker is usually the owner, and the most direct number published is often the mobile on the Google listing - check that it is a mobile, then confirm the owner's name from the website, the state registry or a licensing board. At a larger company the direct line is rarely published at all, and a switchboard or a named email is the realistic route.
The state business registry for the legal owners or officers, the state licensing board for a licensed trade, and the business's own About page. For a list of businesses at once, a lead tool with an owner lookup does the cross-checking for you.
Search the LLC's name in the business registry of the state it was formed in, which in most states is run by the Secretary of State. The record names the registered agent and, in many states, the members or managers. Some states publish no members at all; there the annual report, a licensing board or the business's own site is the next place to look.
It reads the business's own public sources and keeps a name only when independent sources agree on it. A business it cannot name is never delivered on an owner-name order, and you are charged only for names delivered - 3.5 credits a lead including the verified mobile.
With the owner's name confirmed beside a carrier-verified mobile, $56 to $203 for 1,000 delivered, depending on the plan. Without the name - the mobile alone - $16 to $58.
Related.
Listing figures last measured 5 September 2026, trade figures 2026-09-25. Prices derive from the live catalog at build time.
Owners' mobiles, for a whole trade at once.
Pick a trade and an area, keep only the mobiles, add the owner's name - from $0.016 a verified mobile, $0.0559 with the name.