put a name to a face vs put names to faces

Both phrases are correct, but they are used in different contexts. 'Put a name to a face' is used when you are trying to identify or remember a single person, while 'put names to faces' is used when you are trying to remember or identify multiple people.

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put a name to a face

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English when you are trying to identify or remember a single person.

This phrase is used when you are trying to remember or identify a person whose name you can't recall or don't know.

Examples:

I've seen him before, but I can't quite put a name to the face.
Can you help me put a name to this face?

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Many ways for an officer of the law to put a name to a face, Cal.
Of course, leave it to media magnate, Cat Grant, to put a name to a face.
Well. Always a pleasure to put a name to a face,
We just have to put a name to that face.
Let's put a name to that face.
So I want you to go through everybody in Milwaukee... with a history of armed robbery and put a name to the face.
Let's put a name to this face and find our killer.
I want you to go through all the "mugs" from Milwaukee, and put a name to the face.
Did he put a name to the face?
Get on to uniform, get them to canvass the area, see if we can't put a name to that face.
I was the first one to put a name to the face.
So what I want you to do is to go through the mugs of all the guys from old Milwaukee with a history of armed robbery, put a name to the face.
Now I can put names to faces.
No. But I will need your help to put names to faces.
Make it so customs doesn't put no names to faces.
Now, just so you can put names to the faces that will be eating you, I'm Joyce, and this is my assistant, George.
Now, just so you can put names to the faces that will be eating you, I'm Joyce, and this is my assistant, George.
He'll want to put your name with a face.
I wonder whether we could put names and faces on that downsizing.
So what I'm really trying to say is, it's good to put all these names to faces.

Alternatives:

associate a name with a face
match a name to a face
remember the name of the person
identify the person
recall the person's name

put names to faces

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English when you are trying to remember or identify multiple people.

This phrase is used when you are trying to remember or identify multiple people whose names you can't recall or don't know.

Examples:

After the party, I had to put names to faces from all the new people I met.
It took me a while to put names to all the faces in the group photo.

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Now I can put names to faces.
No. But I will need your help to put names to faces.
I'm just trying to put names to faces.
Now, just so you can put names to the faces that will be eating you, I'm Joyce, and this is my assistant, George.
Now, just so you can put names to the faces that will be eating you, I'm Joyce, and this is my assistant, George.
Make it so customs doesn't put no names to faces.
We just have to put a name to that face.
Let's put a name to that face.
So what I'm really trying to say is, it's good to put all these names to faces.
So I want you to go through everybody in Milwaukee... with a history of armed robbery and put a name to the face.
Let's put a name to this face and find our killer.
I want you to go through all the "mugs" from Milwaukee, and put a name to the face.
Did he put a name to the face?
Many ways for an officer of the law to put a name to a face, Cal.
Get on to uniform, get them to canvass the area, see if we can't put a name to that face.
I was the first one to put a name to the face.
So what I want you to do is to go through the mugs of all the guys from old Milwaukee with a history of armed robbery, put a name to the face.
Of course, leave it to media magnate, Cat Grant, to put a name to a face.
Before I forget them, why don't I head back over to Newett Energy, see if I can put some names to those faces?
Well. Always a pleasure to put a name to a face,

Alternatives:

associate names with faces
match names to faces
remember the names of the people
identify the people
recall the people's names

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