Persian Numerology
From the fire temples of ancient Iran, every name carries a flame of meaning. Render yours in the Persian abjad — the numeral order of the Persian letters — and meet the Bounteous Immortal who watches over its root.
“Goftâr-e nik, kerdâr-e nik, pendâr-e nik — Good words, good deeds, good thoughts. — Zoroastrian maxim.”
Enter a name to read its Persian value.
The Persian Alphabet
The thirty-two letters of the Persian alphabet — including the four Persian additions پ che ژ گ — each shown with its classical abjad value.
Alef
1
Be
2
Pe
2
Te
400
Se
500
Jim
3
Che
3
He
8
Khe
600
Dâl
4
Zâl
700
Re
200
Ze
7
Zhe
7
Sin
60
Shin
300
Sâd
90
Zâd
800
Tâ
9
Zâ
900
Eyn
70
Gheyn
1000
Fe
80
Qâf
100
Kâf
20
Gâf
20
Lâm
30
Mim
40
Nun
50
Vâv
6
He
5
Ye
10
The Nine Divinities
How the Persian name calculator works
This calculator takes one input: a name, typed in Latin letters or in Persian script. There is no date field, so a birth date such as 14 March 1990 plays no part, and neither the Solar Hijri calendar nor Nowruz enters the sum. Each Latin letter is matched by sound to a Persian letter: A to alef, B to be, P to pe, G to gāf, K and C to kāf, and O, U, V and W all to vāv. Every letter then takes its abjad value, the values are added to give the Persian value, and that total is reduced by adding its digits until a single digit remains. Spaces, hyphens and accents are ignored.
The page then shows three things: the Persian value with its reduced digit, a letter breakdown listing each Persian glyph, its name and its number, and a ruling divinity. The digits 1 to 9 are paired with Ahura Mazda, the six Amesha Spentas and two great Yazatas, Mithra and Verethragna, each with a domain such as Fire, Earth or Waters. That pairing is this site's own interpretive layer rather than part of classical abjad reckoning.
Take Maria Silva. Maria becomes م ا ر ی ا, worth 40 + 1 + 200 + 10 + 1 = 252, and Silva becomes س ی ل و ا, worth 60 + 10 + 30 + 6 + 1 = 107. Both happen to match a natural Persian spelling of the names. The total is 359; 3 + 5 + 9 gives 17, and 1 + 7 gives 8, which points to Verethragna, domain Victory. Typing ماریا directly gives the same 252, because Persian script is read letter by letter, with the Arabic-keyboard forms of ye and kāf counted as their Persian equivalents.
When reading the breakdown, notice which letters carry the weight. In Maria, re alone supplies 200 of 252. The mapping also makes choices. Every Latin vowel becomes a written letter, although Persian spelling often leaves short vowels out. H always becomes ḥe (8), T always te (400) and never ṭā (9), and ch or zh become two separate letters, so چ and ژ reach a breakdown only when you type Persian script, where they take the values of jim (3) and ze (7). If you know how your name is spelt in Persian, compare the two and see where they part.
Treat the divinity as a theme to think with, not a verdict. For Verethragna you might ask where you have kept going when something stood in the way, or where you would like more courage.
The method shows how one spelling of a name breaks down under a consistent letter table and offers a vocabulary for reflection; it cannot describe your character or foresee your future, and a different spelling will give a different number.
This result is the numerology tradition's symbolic interpretation — an invitation to reflect, not a scientific prediction or a fact about you.
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