Run a Reverse Phone Lookup
Maryland

All phone numbers in the United States (and Canada) are comprised of a three-digit area code and seven-digit local number. The area code comes first, and it must be dialed anytime you’re calling from outside of the area code’s region. In places where multiple area codes cover the same region (which is the case in most of Maryland), the area code must even be dialed when calling locally.

Each area code has a specific geographic region to which it’s assigned. There are five area codes assigned to regions throughout Maryland. A total of three area codes cover Eastern Maryland, and two cover Western Maryland:

• 210 area code: Western Maryland and the Washington, D.C. suburbs
• 301 area code: Western Maryland and the Washington, D.C. suburbs
• 410 area code: Eastern Marland, including Baltimore and the Eastern Shore
• 443 area code: Eastern Marland, primarily cell phones,
• 667 area code: Eastern Marland, primarily cell phones,
• The 201 and 301 area codes include Cumberland, Frederick, Gaithersburg, Hagerstown, Bethesda, Potomac, Landover, Waldorf, Silver Spring and Rockville.

While an area code can help indicate if a phone number originated from a particular region, it’s important to remember that it doesn’t mean a caller or owner of a phone number is still located there.

You can think of a phone number search as being the reverse of a phone book.

With a phone book, you use information about a phone number’s owner to learn what their number is. You search their name in the yellow pages and/or white pages, and find a number (unless they’re unlisted).

With a reverse phone number search, you use the phone number to learn information about the owner. You provide the number, and the search finds available information about who owns that number. Of course, searching online is also much faster than flipping through all the pages of a phone book -- even phone books for sparsely populated areas are quite thick.

Typically, in just three steps, you can complete a reverse phone number search:

1. Enter the phone number (including area code)
2. Click to search, and wait for results
3. Review the available information that’s returned from the search

You might find out what telecom service carries the number, the location of the number, the name of the owner and many other details. Without caller ID, this is a simple and quick way to discover such information.

Reverse phone number lookups are entirely legal for companies to provide, and they’re entirely legal for customers to use. You can legally run a reverse lookup regardless of whether you live in Maryland, or elsewhere in the United States.

The reason reverse phone number lookups are legal is because they often return only public records. The information provided is sourced from documents and other information that’s available to the public.

The main value added that a reverse lookup provides is time. You could even find all of the information yourself, although finding many of the details requires time and knowhow. Using a reverse phone number lookup search can be much faster.

You should know that the information found in a reverse phone number lookup’s results is only as reliable as what’s publicly available.

Scammers frequently falsify information that’s entered into public record, and a reverse phone number lookup will return that false information if a phone number is being used by a scammer. You can often tell when a scammer has falsified information, though, and simply knowing that will then allow you to ignore the call.

To use a free* reverse phone number lookup service for a Maryland number, enter the number into the search bar on ReversePhoneLookup.com. Click the SEARCH button, and ReversePhoneLookup.com will go to work to find results for the subject phone number.

ReversePhoneLookup.com powered by Intelius offers a free* reverse phone number lookup that includes basic information, when available, about the owner of the phone number such as name, city, state, zip code. Additionally, when available it may also include info related to a phone number such as area code, exchange code, zip code coverage, original line type, carrier type, original coverage area, and switch CLLI Code.

While this is can be a helpful reverse phone number lookup, there are limits to what any free lookup service can provide.

Paid reverse phone number lookup services are often able to provide more information, because they have more resources to search public records with. You may find that a paid service can provide additional details about a Maryland cell phone or landline number that you’re interested in.

If you choose to upgrade to a paid Intelius Reverse Phone Number Lookup, this service could provide a range of information, including

• The full name of the phone number’s owner
• Information about the number’s phone carrier
• Phone number owner’s location history
• Other owner contact information
• Social media pages or listings associated with the owner
• Possible Images of the owner
• And more!

Available results also are affected by what’s in public records.

Should you desire to, you can investigate a phone number’s owner further by conducting a background check. This might show the owner’s criminal and traffic records, employment and education history, as well as possible family members’ names.

No matter how much information you want about a phone number’s owner, a free reverse phone number lookup service is generally a great place to start.