Name Numerology Calculator

A name numerology calculator turns the letters of a name into numbers. It adds them down, usually to a single digit. This one gives three numbers, each from its own set of letters. Every letter counts toward the Expression number, also called the Destiny number. The vowels give the Soul Urge number, also called the Heart's Desire number. The consonants give the Personality number.

In numerology the Expression number is read as the broad pattern of a name, the Soul Urge number as an inner motive and the Personality number as the outer manner. Those readings come from tradition and are not measured. A birth date, added in the optional date section, gives a fourth number, the Life Path, which comes from the date and not from the name.

Every letter has a value on a table, and the table is the whole method. The Pythagorean table counts through the alphabet from 1 to 9 and starts over, so A, J and S are all 1. The Chaldean table gives letters values from 1 to 8 and uses no 9. Both are printed below, and the calculator reads them from the same lists.

Take the sample name Maria Lopez in the Pythagorean system. Maria adds to 24 and Lopez to 29, so the Expression number comes from 53, and 5 + 3 gives 8. The vowels add to 22, which stays 22 as a master number, and the consonants add to 31, which gives a Personality number of 4.

Accents are folded away before any letter is counted, so José and Jose give the same numbers. A few letters fold into two, such as ß into SS and Æ into AE. Digits, punctuation and emoji are ignored.

Spaces and hyphens start a new word, which is how the subtotals are drawn. An apostrophe does not, so O'Brien stays one word.

Russian names can be typed in Cyrillic. They are read by a common English transliteration, and the Latin spelling used is printed under the field, so Екатерина is read as Yekaterina. Letters of any other alphabet are not read. The calculator names them and shows no number, instead of counting the rest and leaving them out.

By default a vowel is one of the five plain vowels, a rule that is easy to check by eye. Writers disagree about Y and W, so a switch called Y and W as vowels adds a plain rule of this calculator's own.

With the switch on, Y counts as a vowel unless a vowel follows it, and W counts only when a vowel comes before it and none after. So the Y of Lynn, Sylvia and Mary becomes a vowel, while the Y of Yolanda and Maya stays a consonant. Writers who go by sound count the Y of Bryan or Riley the other way. The name Lynn has no Soul Urge number by default, because it has none of the five vowels, and a Soul Urge number of 7 with the switch on.

In the Pythagorean system 11, 22 and 33 are master numbers: a sum that reaches one of them is kept and not reduced further. The check happens at every step, so 29, 38 and 47 all give 11 and not 2. The result marks the number as a master number. In the Chaldean system every sum is reduced to one digit, and the raw sum is printed beside it.

The calculator adds the whole name and then reduces it, and shows a subtotal for each word. Adding word by word gives the same single digit, but the two ways keep different master numbers: added whole, a full name reaches 11 more often and 22 only rarely. Emma Davis adds to 14 and 19, which reduce to 5 and 1, so by word the name gives 6. Added whole, it is 33, a master number, and 3 + 3 is 6 as well.

Numerology has no single rule for which name to use, so the calculator reads whatever is typed. Pythagorean writers usually start from the full name on the birth record, middle names included. Cheiro, whose table the Chaldean switch uses, added the names a person was most commonly known by. Trying both costs nothing, because the numbers change as the typing changes.

One letter can change a result. Katherine gives an Expression number of 1, Catherine gives 11 and Kathryn gives 7. A nickname, a married name and a spelling changed at a border are different names to the arithmetic.

Pythagorean is the default, and a switch under the field changes to Chaldean. The two tables give most letters different values, so the same name gives different numbers: Maria Lopez gives 53 and 8 in the Pythagorean system and 39 and 3 in the Chaldean one. The result shows the other system as one quiet line, so both are in view.

The Chaldean values are Cheiro's, as printed in his Book of Numbers, and some sources differ on a few letters. The Methodology page lists the rules of both systems and the limits of the numbers.

No, the name is not sent to a server. The numbers are calculated in this browser as the name is typed, and the name goes into no address, cookie or browser storage. It is held in the memory of the open tab, and a reload empties the field. A browser's network panel can confirm that no request carries the name. Pressing Calculate downloads the text of the readings, the same file for every visitor.