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.
Expression
8Every letter
The outward number — what the whole name adds to.
Soul urge
8Vowels only
Traditionally read as motive rather than behaviour.
Personality
9Consonants only
The part read as how the name lands on other people.
Chaldean
8Older system
A different letter table, which skips 9 as sacred.
The working
Letter by letter
Pythagorean values: A–I are 1–9, J–R start again at 1, S–Z run 1–8. Anything that isn't a letter is skipped.
- A1
- S1
- T2
- R9
- O6
- S1
- I9
- D4
- D4
- H8
- A1
- N5
- T2
13 letters counted · total 53
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.
If you want to read further
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