Take advantage of other known information
As anticipated at the beginning, finding a person on Facebook knowing only the name is feasible, especially if you also remember other useful information, such as the work done, the schools attended, etc.
You ask me how to do exactly? I'll explain it to you right away. Find all the information on what to do right below.
From computer
Do you use the famous social network from your computer (therefore from the web browser) and would like to understand how to find a person on Facebook knowing only the name but do you remember other useful information for research purposes? Then first of all go to the home page of the service and connect with your account, then type the name of the person to find in the search bar located at the top and click on the button with the magnifying glass which is on the right.
On the page that you will see appear at this point, click on the item People which is at the top to limit the search to people only and starts scrolling the list of Facebook subscribers related to the name typed. To be able to identify the person you are interested in, give one look at the relative profile photo and try to "focus" if among the various faces there is someone you know.
Another thing I advise you to do is to pay attention to the details related to each contact that you find under the name. Depending on the information that each user has chosen to enter on Facebook and to make it visible to others, you can find indicated the city of origin and the current one, the profession carried out, the university attended, etc.
Give smartphone and tablet
If, on the other hand, you want to search for a person on Facebook knowing only the name, while taking advantage of other useful details, acting as a smartphone or tablet, the first step you need to take is to start the social network app on your device and connect to your account. . Next you have to press on the field Search located at the top of the displayed screen, you must then type the name of the person to find and press the key Search / Enter on the virtual keyboard.
In the screen that you see appear at this point, step on the card People which is at the top and manually scroll through the list of the various users responding to the name typed looking for the person of your interest. You can help by taking a look at the profile photo as well as details about the city, job, age etc. that you find under the name.
If by doing so you are unable to identify the person you are looking for, you can use the special filters at the top of the screen to refine and filter the display of the results. For example, you can press on Friends of friends to see only people who match the name you typed and who are friends of friends, you can tap on City and select or type a specific city to display only a list of people who respond to the name entered above and who live in a specific city and street below.
Take advantage of the tips
Another system you can adopt to find a person on Facebook knowing only the name is to take advantage of the friendship suggestions given by the same social network on the basis of the information that each member chooses to provide and on the basis of friendships in common.
For more details and to find out how to intervene from both computer and mobile, keep reading.
From computer
From a computer, you can find a person on Facebook knowing only their name through friendship suggestions by clicking on the button depicting them two men located in the upper right part of the blue bar of the social network and then scrolling through the list of people you may know.
If you can't find the one you're looking for among the friendship suggestions proposed, click on the link Show all which is at the bottom of the pane that has opened so that you can view all the friend suggestions available.
In the new Web page that is shown you can also refine the results using the filters and search tools that you find on the right, in correspondence with the section Look for friends. Using them you can therefore find friends related to different periods and / or aspects of your life, for example based on the hometown, the one in which you are now, the employer, the degree obtained and so on. You can also specify a given name directly by typing in the field Your name which is high up.
Give smartphone and tablet
If, on the other hand, you are using the app of the famous social network from your smartphone or tablet, you can find a person on Facebook knowing only their name through the friendship suggestions by first pressing the button depicting two men that you find located at the top (on Android) or at the bottom (on iOS) on the main screen of the app.
Once this is done, you will then be shown the complete list of all the people registered on the famous social network that you may know. Scroll it and when you think you have found the person whose name you are looking for click above to view more details directly on his profile, as I explained to you in the previous paragraph, the one focused on how to exploit other known information to find a person on Facebook knowing only the name.
I also point out that always from the screen where you find the friendship suggestions you can also load your contacts on your smartphone. In this way, if the number of the person you are looking for is also saved among the numbers in the phone book, you can use this data to get in touch with the person immediately. To do this, press the button Actived in correspondence with the appropriate item that appears at the bottom in order to start loading the numbers using the guided procedure that appears on the screen.
If you do not see any specific items appear at the bottom of the screen, call up the function yourself by pressing the button with the three lines horizontally which is at the top left (on Android) or at the bottom right (on iOS) and press on Friends in the screen that opens, then presses on the card Contacts and stop on Start. Even then, you'll need to follow the on-screen wizard to start uploading your contacts.
What to do after managing to find someone on Facebook
When you think you have finally found the person you were looking for, click / stop on his name to view, depending on what is defined in the privacy settings of the reference user, further information, photos, videos and so on, scrolling through the diary and / or by clicking / pressing first on the tabs under the cover image.
I particularly suggest you take a look at the card Friends (always under the cover image) to find out if there are any mutual friends or in any case if you can identify other people you may know. In this way you can get an even more precise idea of the user in question and try to understand which "circle of friends" he is part of.
And if the person whose profile you are viewing is just the one you were looking for ... send him a friend request so that you can get in touch with the latter on a permanent basis! Don't you know how to do it? But it's very easy, both from a computer and from a smartphone and tablet! In fact, you just need to press the button add to friends that you find in correspondence with the name of the person on the social network.
Once this is done, you will have to wait for the user to accept your request and when this happens you will receive a notification through which you will be told, precisely, that the user in question has accepted and has therefore been added to the list of your Facebook friends. If, on the other hand, the user ignores your request but refuses it (unfortunately take into account that it can happen), you will not receive any notification.
For more information about it, I suggest you read my article on how to request friendship on Facebook through which I proceeded to talk to you about the matter in great detail.
How to find a person on Facebook knowing only the name