Abjad Numerology

This calculator adds up letter values from the eastern abjad table, where the Arabic letters climb from alif at 1 to ghayn at 1,000. If you type in Arabic script, each letter is read directly, and common variants such as hamza forms, ta marbuta and alif maqsura count as their base letters. If you type in Latin letters, each one is matched by sound to an approximate Arabic counterpart: M to mim (40), R to ra (200), S to sin (60), while vowels such as A and I are read as alif (1) and ya (10). Accents, hyphens and spaces are ignored. The full compound total is the main result; a single figure is then found by adding its digits until one remains.

Take Maria Silva. Maria gives M 40, A 1, R 200, I 10, A 1, which is 252. Silva gives S 60, I 10, L 30, V 6, A 1, which is 107. Together they make 359, and 3 + 5 + 9 = 17, then 1 + 7 = 8. Of the ten letters, four are classed as Fire, three as Earth, two as Water and one as Air, so Fire is marked dominant. Written as ماريا, the first name happens to keep its value of 252, but that will not always hold, because Arabic spelling often leaves out short vowels that a Latin spelling records.

Treat the large total as the signature of one particular spelling. Try the variants you actually use and notice how much they move it; here the single R supplies 200 of the 359. The letter breakdown makes that weighting visible, and the reduced digit leads to the short meaning shown beside it. The element counts are a prompt for reflection about temperament, not a verdict. A name typed in Arabic script gets its own breakdown under the Arabic letter names, and its element counts follow the same cycle through the abjad order, so ماريا shows the same three Fire, one Earth and one Water as Maria.

Adding a second name sums both totals and divides by twelve; the remainder points to a traditional harmony label, and the two dominant elements are compared alongside it. Use these as conversation starters about how two people differ. The planetary square below takes your total, divides it by the size of the chosen grid and adds the whole-number result to every cell. For the 3 by 3 Saturn square that offset is 119, so every row, column and diagonal sums to 372. It is best enjoyed as a piece of numerical craftsmanship.

The method can show how a name is built and how different spellings change it; it cannot describe your future or decide anything on your behalf.