What your name adds up to
Letters mapped to numbers and summed. We use both the Pythagorean table most calculators use and the older Chaldean one, because they disagree and it is worth seeing where.
What your name adds up to
Nothing is stored. The name travels in the address bar of this page and nowhere else.
The tables
The two letter tables
This is where the systems part company. Pythagorean walks the alphabet in nines. Chaldean is older and groups letters by sound rather than order. It has no 9 at all, because the number was treated as sacred and withheld. The same name routinely gets two different answers.
Pythagorean
A–I is 1–9, J–R starts again at 1, S–Z runs 1–8.
| 1 | A J S |
| 2 | B K T |
| 3 | C L U |
| 4 | D M V |
| 5 | E N W |
| 6 | F O X |
| 7 | G P Y |
| 8 | H Q Z |
| 9 | I R |
Chaldean
Grouped by sound, and stopping at 8.
| 1 | A I J Q Y |
| 2 | B K R |
| 3 | C G L S |
| 4 | D M T |
| 5 | E H N X |
| 6 | U V W |
| 7 | O Z |
| 8 | F P |
Significations
What the three numbers mean
Expression
Every letter
Read as the outward shape of the name — what it presents to the world before anyone knows you.
Soul urge
Vowels only
Read as motive rather than behaviour. The vowels are the sounds you cannot say the name without.
Personality
Consonants only
Read as how the name lands on other people — first impression rather than intent.
Method
Which name do you use?
The systems disagree. Some read the name on the birth certificate. Some read the name you actually answer to. Some insist on including the surname. There is no way to settle this from inside the method, so we compute whatever you type and leave the choice with you. Try both and notice that the number changes. That tells you something about the method itself.
Privacy
We won't sell you a spelling
A large business exists around adding a letter to your name to change this number. We compute the number and stop there. Nothing here is stored — the name travels in the address bar of this page and nowhere else.
Worked example
What does a name add up to?
Take this site’s own name, so no one’s name is used as an example. Both systems are run on the same letters.
| What | Computed |
|---|---|
| Expression | 8 |
| Soul urge | 8 |
| Personality | 9 |
| Chaldean | 8 A1 S1 T2 R9 O6 S1 I9 D4 D4 H8 A1 N5 T2 |
A fixed sample, not anyone’s own. The numbers come out of the same engine your own entry would go through, so they are the same every time you look. See the whole result for this sample →
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