How to find a Gmail address
You are quite a careless person and often forget the passwords of the accounts you create on the main online services. You are aware of this “problem” of yours and you always try to write down essential information such as data for accessing your e-mail. It’s just a shame that this wasn’t the case with your Gmail address. From the moment you are reading this guide, I guess you want to know how to find the email address for which you have forgotten your login details.
Come on, don’t despair. Nothing has happened that is not irrecoverable: if you have lost your Gmail address data, know that you can recover them through an extremely easy and immediate procedure. Finding an email address for which you have lost or forgotten access data, such as username and password, is possible and the task I set myself in this guide will be to explain how to do it, step by step.
All you need to follow the instructions in this tutorial of mine is a few minutes of free time. Sit comfortably in front of the PC and follow the procedures that I will show you in detail: you will see that a little patience will be enough and you will be able to access your precious Google e-mail address again. Let it bet? Before we begin, as usual, I would like to wish you a good read.
How to find a Gmail address (forgotten email address)
Let’s start immediately with the resolution of one of the most common problems. I’ll explain in the following lines how you can find the username of the email address and thus be able to re-enter your account relating to Google services, including Gmail.
If you need to find the username of your e-mail account, you must first connect to the Internet page relating to the assistance and recovery section of a Gmail account, made available by Google.
How to do? Open the browser you usually use to browse (for example Google Chrome or Safari) and click on this Internet page which leads to the page dedicated to restoring your Google account.
Once you have landed on the web page in question, all you have to do is follow the reset procedure for your account to the letter which you can see on the Account Support screen. The first thing you will be asked to indicate, in order to retrieve your email address, is the username you registered.
If, as in this case, you cannot remember it, you can proceed to recover the email address that you have lost by typing the telephone number associated with it. Then type in the phone number and, to continue from this screen you will then have to click on the Next button.
You will then be asked to type in the last password you remember associated with your account. Enter it in the text field you see on the screen and press the Next button. Alternatively, by clicking on the item Try with another question, you can try to reset your account using a single-use code sent to the recovery email that you have indicated for your account.
If you don’t have access to any alternate email address linked to your Gmail account, press the Try button again with another question. You will be able to reset your account in other ways, for example by answering other questions.
For example, you will need to indicate the approximate month and year in which you created the Google account you want to find, or use another email address of your choice for account recovery.
These options are visible by clicking on the item Try with another question, You will then be asked to type an email address different from the previous ones you have and that you can actually check. It would be better if that email address was linked to the Gmail account you want to find, but it’s not essential.
In this specific case, after you enter the recovery email address, Google will send you a verification code and instructions that will help you access the account you have lost.
If, on the other hand, you want to try an alternative route to find the Gmail email address that you have lost, but you have not associated any phone number to your account, and therefore you cannot follow the procedure I indicated in the previous lines, I will explain how to do it.
Go back to the Internet page relating to the recovery of the Gmail account and click on the item Find my account. You will now need to attempt recovery through an alternate email address or alternate phone number.
It is absolutely important that, even at this stage, you enter an email address or mobile number to which you have access. Then enter the required data in the text fields you see on the screen and press the Next button. Finally, indicate the name and surname associated with the Google account to be recovered.
In case you have indicated an alternative recovery email, by pressing the Next button, Google will send an email containing a one-time code to be used to access your account.
If, on the other hand, you had indicated a mobile number for recovery, you will then have to carry out a verification through a captcha code and click on Next.
Note that this is the last option you have to verify your account. If you do not have any of the requested data, I recommend that you contact Google support.
How to find a Gmail address (forgot password)
Finding an email address in the event of a lost password is certainly easier. I indicate in the following lines the procedure to be carried out for the recovery of your Gmail email account.
First, connect to the official Google website to recover your account and, since you know it, type in your email address for which you no longer remember the password. Continue by clicking on Next.
It doesn’t matter if you don’t remember your current password anymore, but you need to type in the last password you remember in the next text field to help Google find your Gmail account. Don’t even remember your old account password? Do not despair? Try clicking on the Try another question item several times in a row to try to recover your email address password using the additional security options that vary depending on your account settings.
For example, you can evaluate the option that allows you to recover your account password via SMS verification code. In this case, enter your full phone number in the text field Receive a verification code via SMS to the number [part of the phone number associated with your Gmail account].
By pressing the Try button again with another question you can reset your password with an alternative phone number (then type the complete alternative phone number referring to the digits you see on the screen).
In case you have activated other security options for recovering your account, such as backup codes, type the 8-digit code in the Enter a backup code text field to reset your Gmail account password.
By continuing to press on the item Try with another question, you may have access to other settings for recovery: identity verification by confirming your mobile number or through the alternative phone numbers you have indicated in your account, or again through the security question set.
Other options include the indication of the month and year of creation of your Gmail account and, finally, the verification of the possession of the Gmail account that you want to recover through an alternative email address.
Not all of the alternative options I have indicated may be present; as I explained to you, it depends on the security level you have set for your Google account. However, keep in mind that, in the event that it is not possible for you to find the password of your Gmail account through this procedure indicated by me, you will have to proceed by contacting the Google support service.
How to find a Gmail address (other recovery solutions)
An alternative that I recommend you try to find a gmail address for which you have lost your login data is the Google help center. This is a support section with a list of answers and related solutions to frequently asked questions.
To use the section of Google indicated by me, all you have to do is connect to the appropriate website and select the problem from one of those that I indicate below.
If you already have a clear idea of what your problem is, just click on it and follow the instructions provided directly by Google to receive the appropriate assistance for your problem.
The issues for which there is a resolution, in the Google help center, are the following:
- Forgot your password: indicates the procedure to follow to recover the account and the suggestions for correctly carrying out the recovery;
- Forgot your username or the email address you used to log in: this section tells you how to proceed and what to do if you can’t find your username
- Remember your username and password but cannot log in –you are asked to answer additional questions to investigate the nature of the problem
- You think someone else is using your account –you are given steps to protect your account in the event of theft.
- You’re having trouble with 2-Step Verification: You’re asked to answer additional questions about the problem you’re having.
- You are unable to reset your password with a code received via message: in this specific case you will be shown the alternative procedure to follow.
- You are using a corporate, school, or other groups Google account –to resolve this issue, you will need to answer additional questions to understand the nature of the error you encountered.