The number within your name
Each letter carries a value. Type a name and watch it distill to its essence.
Use your full birth name for a foundational reading, or the name you currently use to explore its present influence.
Which name should I use?
- Full birth name
- The name on your birth record, middle names included. Read as the foundation — the pattern you started from.
- The name you use now
- A married name, a shortened name, a professional name. Read as the present influence, not a replacement for the first.
- Nicknames
- Worth calculating separately. A nickname is how a circle addresses you, so it reads as a social surface rather than a foundation.
- Middle names
- Include them when they are part of the full birth name. Leaving them out gives a different, equally valid reading of a different name.
- Accented letters
- Á, Â, Ã, É, Ê, Í, Ó, Ô, Õ, Ú and Ç are read as A, E, I, O, U and C. Calcabala does not assign separate values to accents.
- Hyphens and apostrophes
- Ignored, along with spaces and punctuation. Mary-Jane and MaryJane produce the same number.
- Supported alphabets
- The Latin alphabet A–Z. Names written in other scripts cannot be calculated; Calcabala will say so rather than guess at a transliteration.
Awaiting a name
Reduction
Letter values are added, then the digits of that total are added, and again, until one result remains. Pythagorean, Chaldean and Hebrew stop at 9 or at a master number. Calcabala’s modern Tree-of-Life adaptation stops within 1–10 by a documented site convention, leaving 10 available to be read through Malkuth.
Master numbers
Calcabala preserves 11 and 22: when a total reduces to either, it stops there instead of collapsing to 2 or 4. 33 is not treated as a master number — a total of 33 reduces to 6. Some traditions do treat 33 as a master number; Calcabala does not, and says so rather than leaving it ambiguous.
Letters, accents and punctuation
A name is read as the letters A–Z. Accented Latin letters are read as their base letter — Â as A, Ç as C, Õ as O. Spaces, hyphens, apostrophes and punctuation carry no value. Characters from other writing systems cannot be read at all, and Calcabala reports them rather than quietly dropping them.
What happens to what you type
Every calculation on this site runs in your browser. There is no account and no server that receives a name or a birth date. Shared links carry reading details after the # in the address, which browsers do not transmit to a server. Calcabala counts visits with Google Analytics only if you accept it — and it is given the page address with everything after the # removed, so a shared reading never reaches Google either. Decline or change your mind from “Cookies” at the foot of any page.