Compare Systems
Compare all systems
One name, four letter maps. See where they agree and where they part.
Why are the results different?
None of these systems is a corrected version of another. They were built at different times, for different purposes, from different assumptions about what a letter is. A name that reduces to 11 in one and 7 in another is not a contradiction; it is two instruments tuned to different scales.
- Pythagorean
- The modern Western standard: letters cycle 1–9 in alphabetical order. Best for everyday name and destiny readings.
- Chaldean
- A modern chart commonly called Chaldean: letters use an irregular 1–8 map traditionally described in terms of sound or vibration, while 9 is left unassigned. Its claimed Babylonian lineage is unverified.
- Hebrew
- A modern Latin-to-Hebrew approximation: each Latin letter is assigned a roughly corresponding Hebrew letter value. Traditional gematria instead calculates words as they are spelled in Hebrew.
- Kabbalistic
- Calcabala’s modern Tree-of-Life adaptation: each Latin letter takes its alphabet position (A=1 to Z=26), and the result is read through one of the ten Sephirot. This is not a traditional Kabbalistic calculation.
How to read four answers
Read the system whose premise you find most convincing, and treat the others as second opinions. Where several systems land on the same number, that number is worth more attention — not because it is more true, but because it survives more than one way of counting.
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.