Guide · By Ghost Delete · November 14, 2026

How to Remove Yourself from Whitepages

Whitepages is the biggest people-search site in the United States. If someone searches your name, Whitepages is usually the first result, showing your home address, phone number, age, and relatives. Here is how to remove your listing from Whitepages for free, step by step, and what to do when it comes back.

What Whitepages shows about you

Whitepages publishes a profile for most American adults: full name, current and past addresses, phone numbers, age, and relatives. Anyone can see the basics for free, and anyone willing to pay gets the full report. Whitepages also runs 411.com and Whitepages Canada, so a suppression request here can clear more than one listing. The profile is built from public records, phone records, and data bought from other brokers. You never signed up for it, and you were never asked.

Step 1: Find your listing

Go to whitepages.com and search your full name and city. Find the profile that matches you and open it. Copy the URL of your profile page from the address bar. You will paste this URL into the suppression form. If there is more than one profile for you, for example an old address listed separately, copy each URL and submit a request for each one.

Step 2: Submit a suppression request

Go to whitepages.com/suppression-requests. Paste your profile URL into the form and submit it. Whitepages will verify the request with an automated phone call that reads you a code, so have your phone in hand before you start. Enter the code, and the request is submitted. There is no fee, and you do not need a Whitepages account.

Step 3: Wait and verify

Once verified, Whitepages usually removes the listing within about 24 hours. Search yourself again the next day to confirm it is gone. If the profile is still there after a few days, check that you submitted the correct profile URL, then submit the request again. Keep the confirmation email so you have a record of the request and the date.

Ignore the upsell

Whitepages will try to sell you a paid removal or monitoring service while you opt out. You do not need it. The free suppression request works. Paying does not make the removal faster or more permanent.

Why your listing comes back

Whitepages is one of the most aggressive re-listers in the industry. It buys fresh data constantly, and a listing you remove today can reappear in 3 to 6 months when a new public record or data set is ingested. This is not a failure of the opt-out. It is how the business works. Set a calendar reminder to re-search yourself every 3 to 6 months and re-submit the suppression request whenever your profile is back. Each round takes a few minutes, because you already know the form and you have the profile URL saved.

What suppression does and does not do

Suppression removes your public profile from Whitepages. It does not delete the underlying public records, so someone can still find those records on a government website. It does not remove you from other brokers. Spokeo, BeenVerified, TruthFinder, and dozens of others hold the same data, and each one needs its own opt-out. The full list, with the exact link for each broker, is in our DIY guide to removing yourself from data brokers. Start with the PeopleConnect suppression request, which covers TruthFinder, InstantCheckmate, Intelius, USSearch, and more in one submission, then work through the biggest sites one by one.

Whitepages Canada

Whitepages also runs Whitepages Canada at whitepagescanada.ca. If you are listed there, submit a suppression request on that site the same way. Canadian listings are covered by PIPEDA, which gives you the right to ask an organization to delete personal information it holds about you, in writing, per organization.