Comparison
Complete numerology calculation examples
Follow complete profiles for Romanian diacritics, compound names and master numbers. See why an unchanged result, a missing value and a rejected date mean different things.
To understand an unexpected profile, start with what the calculator actually accepted: the date, the letters and the rule for each position. Changing a hyphen may leave every value unchanged. Dropping letters can also leave you with a plausible-looking result, but for an incomplete name. Those are different situations.
The examples below let you follow that distinction through complete calculations. They use illustrative inputs, not accounts of real people. All displayed results come from the same engine as the free profile calculator.
Change a letter or separator and see what enters the sum. The name stays on this page; it is not sent or saved.
All letters: 2
- All letters
STEFAN: 1 + 2 + 5 + 6 + 1 + 5= 20 - All letters
2 + 0= 2
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| What you noticed | What to compare first |
|---|---|
| A name with diacritics gives the same result as one without them | The accepted letters after normalization. |
| A compound name changes when entered differently | Whether only separators changed, or a name part was removed. |
| A date contains 11 or 22 but Life Path is not a master number | The separate component reductions and the final addition. |
| Soul Urge is unavailable | Whether the accepted name contains A, E, I, O or U. |
| Part of a name uses another script | The warning and the exact letters that contributed. |
| A February birth date is rejected | Calendar validity before any numerology calculation. |
Complete profiles, with each step available
Open the calculation details for a position to see its letter values or date components, subtotal and reduction. The date stays fixed in the name comparisons, so you can see what the name does and does not affect.
Illustrative inputs, not real cases. Open the spelling you want to check, then a result to see every calculation step.
Romanian letters and Unicode
Ștefan · 1990-07-16
Recognized name: STEFAN.
- Life Path
6 · calculation steps
- Month
7= 7 - Day
1 + 6= 7 - Year
1 + 9 + 9 + 0= 19 - Year
1 + 9= 10 - Year
1 + 0= 1 - Component sum
7 + 7 + 1= 15 - Final reduction
1 + 5= 6
- Month
- Birthday
7 · calculation steps
- Birthday
1 + 6= 7
- Birthday
- Expression
2 · calculation steps
- All letters
STEFAN: 1 + 2 + 5 + 6 + 1 + 5= 20 - All letters
2 + 0= 2
- All letters
- Soul Urge
6 · calculation steps
- Vowels
EA: 5 + 1= 6 - Vowels
6= 6
- Vowels
- Personality
5 · calculation steps
- Consonants
STFN: 1 + 2 + 6 + 5= 14 - Consonants
1 + 4= 5
- Consonants
- Maturity
8 · calculation steps
- Maturity
8= 8
- Maturity
Ştefan · 1990-07-16
Recognized name: STEFAN.
- Life Path
6 · calculation steps
- Month
7= 7 - Day
1 + 6= 7 - Year
1 + 9 + 9 + 0= 19 - Year
1 + 9= 10 - Year
1 + 0= 1 - Component sum
7 + 7 + 1= 15 - Final reduction
1 + 5= 6
- Month
- Birthday
7 · calculation steps
- Birthday
1 + 6= 7
- Birthday
- Expression
2 · calculation steps
- All letters
STEFAN: 1 + 2 + 5 + 6 + 1 + 5= 20 - All letters
2 + 0= 2
- All letters
- Soul Urge
6 · calculation steps
- Vowels
EA: 5 + 1= 6 - Vowels
6= 6
- Vowels
- Personality
5 · calculation steps
- Consonants
STFN: 1 + 2 + 6 + 5= 14 - Consonants
1 + 4= 5
- Consonants
- Maturity
8 · calculation steps
- Maturity
8= 8
- Maturity
Stefan · 1990-07-16
Recognized name: STEFAN.
- Life Path
6 · calculation steps
- Month
7= 7 - Day
1 + 6= 7 - Year
1 + 9 + 9 + 0= 19 - Year
1 + 9= 10 - Year
1 + 0= 1 - Component sum
7 + 7 + 1= 15 - Final reduction
1 + 5= 6
- Month
- Birthday
7 · calculation steps
- Birthday
1 + 6= 7
- Birthday
- Expression
2 · calculation steps
- All letters
STEFAN: 1 + 2 + 5 + 6 + 1 + 5= 20 - All letters
2 + 0= 2
- All letters
- Soul Urge
6 · calculation steps
- Vowels
EA: 5 + 1= 6 - Vowels
6= 6
- Vowels
- Personality
5 · calculation steps
- Consonants
STFN: 1 + 2 + 6 + 5= 14 - Consonants
1 + 4= 5
- Consonants
- Maturity
8 · calculation steps
- Maturity
8= 8
- Maturity
Ștefan · 1990-07-16 (S + combining comma)
Recognized name: STEFAN.
- Life Path
6 · calculation steps
- Month
7= 7 - Day
1 + 6= 7 - Year
1 + 9 + 9 + 0= 19 - Year
1 + 9= 10 - Year
1 + 0= 1 - Component sum
7 + 7 + 1= 15 - Final reduction
1 + 5= 6
- Month
- Birthday
7 · calculation steps
- Birthday
1 + 6= 7
- Birthday
- Expression
2 · calculation steps
- All letters
STEFAN: 1 + 2 + 5 + 6 + 1 + 5= 20 - All letters
2 + 0= 2
- All letters
- Soul Urge
6 · calculation steps
- Vowels
EA: 5 + 1= 6 - Vowels
6= 6
- Vowels
- Personality
5 · calculation steps
- Consonants
STFN: 1 + 2 + 6 + 5= 14 - Consonants
1 + 4= 5
- Consonants
- Maturity
8 · calculation steps
- Maturity
8= 8
- Maturity
A compound name, three spellings
Ana-Maria · 1990-07-16
Recognized name: ANA-MARIA.
- Life Path
6 · calculation steps
- Month
7= 7 - Day
1 + 6= 7 - Year
1 + 9 + 9 + 0= 19 - Year
1 + 9= 10 - Year
1 + 0= 1 - Component sum
7 + 7 + 1= 15 - Final reduction
1 + 5= 6
- Month
- Birthday
7 · calculation steps
- Birthday
1 + 6= 7
- Birthday
- Expression
4 · calculation steps
- All letters
ANAMARIA: 1 + 5 + 1 + 4 + 1 + 9 + 9 + 1= 31 - All letters
3 + 1= 4
- All letters
- Soul Urge
4 · calculation steps
- Vowels
AAAIA: 1 + 1 + 1 + 9 + 1= 13 - Vowels
1 + 3= 4
- Vowels
- Personality
9 · calculation steps
- Consonants
NMR: 5 + 4 + 9= 18 - Consonants
1 + 8= 9
- Consonants
- Maturity
1 · calculation steps
- Maturity
1 + 0= 1
- Maturity
Ana Maria · 1990-07-16
Recognized name: ANA MARIA.
- Life Path
6 · calculation steps
- Month
7= 7 - Day
1 + 6= 7 - Year
1 + 9 + 9 + 0= 19 - Year
1 + 9= 10 - Year
1 + 0= 1 - Component sum
7 + 7 + 1= 15 - Final reduction
1 + 5= 6
- Month
- Birthday
7 · calculation steps
- Birthday
1 + 6= 7
- Birthday
- Expression
4 · calculation steps
- All letters
ANAMARIA: 1 + 5 + 1 + 4 + 1 + 9 + 9 + 1= 31 - All letters
3 + 1= 4
- All letters
- Soul Urge
4 · calculation steps
- Vowels
AAAIA: 1 + 1 + 1 + 9 + 1= 13 - Vowels
1 + 3= 4
- Vowels
- Personality
9 · calculation steps
- Consonants
NMR: 5 + 4 + 9= 18 - Consonants
1 + 8= 9
- Consonants
- Maturity
1 · calculation steps
- Maturity
1 + 0= 1
- Maturity
AnaMaria · 1990-07-16
Recognized name: ANAMARIA.
- Life Path
6 · calculation steps
- Month
7= 7 - Day
1 + 6= 7 - Year
1 + 9 + 9 + 0= 19 - Year
1 + 9= 10 - Year
1 + 0= 1 - Component sum
7 + 7 + 1= 15 - Final reduction
1 + 5= 6
- Month
- Birthday
7 · calculation steps
- Birthday
1 + 6= 7
- Birthday
- Expression
4 · calculation steps
- All letters
ANAMARIA: 1 + 5 + 1 + 4 + 1 + 9 + 9 + 1= 31 - All letters
3 + 1= 4
- All letters
- Soul Urge
4 · calculation steps
- Vowels
AAAIA: 1 + 1 + 1 + 9 + 1= 13 - Vowels
1 + 3= 4
- Vowels
- Personality
9 · calculation steps
- Consonants
NMR: 5 + 4 + 9= 18 - Consonants
1 + 8= 9
- Consonants
- Maturity
1 · calculation steps
- Maturity
1 + 0= 1
- Maturity
Master numbers at intermediate steps
Ana-Maria · 2000-11-22
Recognized name: ANA-MARIA.
- Life Path
8 · calculation steps
- Month
11= 11 ✦ - Day
22= 22 ✦ - Year
2 + 0 + 0 + 0= 2 - Component sum
11 + 22 + 2= 35 - Final reduction
3 + 5= 8
- Month
- Birthday
22 · calculation steps
- Birthday
22= 22 ✦
- Birthday
- Expression
4 · calculation steps
- All letters
ANAMARIA: 1 + 5 + 1 + 4 + 1 + 9 + 9 + 1= 31 - All letters
3 + 1= 4
- All letters
- Soul Urge
4 · calculation steps
- Vowels
AAAIA: 1 + 1 + 1 + 9 + 1= 13 - Vowels
1 + 3= 4
- Vowels
- Personality
9 · calculation steps
- Consonants
NMR: 5 + 4 + 9= 18 - Consonants
1 + 8= 9
- Consonants
- Maturity
3 · calculation steps
- Maturity
1 + 2= 3
- Maturity
Y and missing vowels
Rhythm · 1990-07-16
Recognized name: RHYTHM.
- No A, E, I, O or U: Soul Urge is unavailable. Y counts as a consonant.
- Life Path
6 · calculation steps
- Month
7= 7 - Day
1 + 6= 7 - Year
1 + 9 + 9 + 0= 19 - Year
1 + 9= 10 - Year
1 + 0= 1 - Component sum
7 + 7 + 1= 15 - Final reduction
1 + 5= 6
- Month
- Birthday
7 · calculation steps
- Birthday
1 + 6= 7
- Birthday
- Expression
11 · calculation steps
- All letters
RHYTHM: 9 + 8 + 7 + 2 + 8 + 4= 38 - All letters
3 + 8= 11 ✦
- All letters
- Soul Urge
- Unavailable
- Personality
11 · calculation steps
- Consonants
RHYTHM: 9 + 8 + 7 + 2 + 8 + 4= 38 - Consonants
3 + 8= 11 ✦
- Consonants
- Maturity
8 · calculation steps
- Maturity
1 + 7= 8
- Maturity
Which letters were actually counted?
李 · 1990-07-16
Recognized name: no letters.
- Some letters are unsupported. Only the recognized Latin letters below contribute; no transliteration is invented.
- No supported letters: only the birth-date results are available.
- Life Path
6 · calculation steps
- Month
7= 7 - Day
1 + 6= 7 - Year
1 + 9 + 9 + 0= 19 - Year
1 + 9= 10 - Year
1 + 0= 1 - Component sum
7 + 7 + 1= 15 - Final reduction
1 + 5= 6
- Month
- Birthday
7 · calculation steps
- Birthday
1 + 6= 7
- Birthday
- Expression
- Unavailable
- Soul Urge
- Unavailable
- Personality
- Unavailable
- Maturity
- Unavailable
Ana 李 · 1990-07-16
Recognized name: ANA.
- Some letters are unsupported. Only the recognized Latin letters below contribute; no transliteration is invented.
- Life Path
6 · calculation steps
- Month
7= 7 - Day
1 + 6= 7 - Year
1 + 9 + 9 + 0= 19 - Year
1 + 9= 10 - Year
1 + 0= 1 - Component sum
7 + 7 + 1= 15 - Final reduction
1 + 5= 6
- Month
- Birthday
7 · calculation steps
- Birthday
1 + 6= 7
- Birthday
- Expression
7 · calculation steps
- All letters
ANA: 1 + 5 + 1= 7 - All letters
7= 7
- All letters
- Soul Urge
2 · calculation steps
- Vowels
AA: 1 + 1= 2 - Vowels
2= 2
- Vowels
- Personality
5 · calculation steps
- Consonants
N: 5= 5 - Consonants
5= 5
- Consonants
- Maturity
4 · calculation steps
- Maturity
1 + 3= 4
- Maturity
Ana · 1990-07-16
Recognized name: ANA.
- Life Path
6 · calculation steps
- Month
7= 7 - Day
1 + 6= 7 - Year
1 + 9 + 9 + 0= 19 - Year
1 + 9= 10 - Year
1 + 0= 1 - Component sum
7 + 7 + 1= 15 - Final reduction
1 + 5= 6
- Month
- Birthday
7 · calculation steps
- Birthday
1 + 6= 7
- Birthday
- Expression
7 · calculation steps
- All letters
ANA: 1 + 5 + 1= 7 - All letters
7= 7
- All letters
- Soul Urge
2 · calculation steps
- Vowels
AA: 1 + 1= 2 - Vowels
2= 2
- Vowels
- Personality
5 · calculation steps
- Consonants
N: 5= 5 - Consonants
5= 5
- Consonants
- Maturity
4 · calculation steps
- Maturity
1 + 3= 4
- Maturity
Leap-day validation
No name · 2000-02-29
- Life Path
6 · calculation steps
- Month
2= 2 - Day
2 + 9= 11 ✦ - Year
2 + 0 + 0 + 0= 2 - Component sum
2 + 11 + 2= 15 - Final reduction
1 + 5= 6
- Month
- Birthday
11 · calculation steps
- Birthday
2 + 9= 11 ✦
- Birthday
- Expression
- Name not supplied
- Soul Urge
- Name not supplied
- Personality
- Name not supplied
- Maturity
- Name not supplied
No name · 1900-02-29 · invalid date
The date is rejected. 1900 is not a leap year; no profile is returned and the date is not silently corrected.
Diacritics change the spelling, not these letter values
In the Ștefan comparison, the Romanian comma-below form, the cedilla form, the unaccented spelling and a separately encoded combining mark all yield the accepted letters STEFAN. Consequently, each name-based position has the same inputs and result.
This is a declared text-handling rule, not a claim that spellings are interchangeable in everyday use. Numerus applies NFKD normalization, removes combining marks and then selects the letters supported by its alphabet. Unicode defines NFKD as compatibility decomposition; removing marks and choosing A–Z are additional decisions made here.
You do not need to strip Romanian diacritics yourself. If a result differs elsewhere, inspect the accepted letters before assuming that the difference has a symbolic meaning. The method guide provides the complete alphabet.
A separator is not a name part
Ana-Maria, Ana Maria and AnaMaria retain the same letters in the same order. A hyphen or space may remain visible in the recognized name, but neither contributes a number. In this method, the accepted letters for each position are added together before reduction. Those three versions therefore match.
Entering only Ana is a different comparison: you have removed letters, not punctuation. Expression, Soul Urge and Personality must then be calculated from the shorter input. Maturity also depends on Expression and must be recalculated, while the two birth-date values remain unchanged. A recalculation does not guarantee a different final digit, because different totals can reduce to the same value.
For a useful comparison between sites, keep the supplied name constant. Then check how each groups the letters. Matching alphabets alone do not establish matching reduction rules.
A master in the date need not survive the final sum
The example born on 22 November 2000 keeps the month and day as master-valued components. Life Path then adds them to the reduced year and reduces that new total. Birthday uses the day alone. There is no contradiction when the two positions finish differently.
Read the stopping rule at the stage where it applies. Do not search inside a longer total for familiar repeated digits or replace a final result with a more appealing intermediate one. The master-number guide compares what happens when the same total is kept or reduced.
An unavailable value is not zero
Rhythm is a test string chosen because it contains no A, E, I, O or U. Numerus treats Y as a consonant, so there are no accepted vowels from which to calculate Soul Urge. Expression and Personality remain calculable. The unavailable position is not filled with zero or given an interpretation.
The example lets you check a further consequence: every accepted letter is a consonant. Expression and Personality therefore start from the same list of values and follow the same calculation path. Their agreement is not two independent confirmations of a reading. If you expected a Soul Urge value, check the spelling you intended to calculate; adding a vowel solely to fill the profile would change the input.
Matching values can hide an incomplete name
The Ana 李 comparison is particularly important. The implementation does not transliterate the unsupported character. Its name-based values come only from ANA, and a warning identifies the coverage problem. Matching the profile for Ana does not mean that the full original name was processed.
With 李 alone, no supported letters remain. Birth-date values are still available, but the name cannot supply Expression or the derived Maturity value. The calculator cannot choose a Latin transliteration for you. If you want name-based results, use a Latin spelling you recognize and check which letters the calculation accepts.
A rejected date has no profile to interpret
The Gregorian calendar accepts 29 February 2000 but not 29 February 1900. A century year must also be divisible by 400 to be a leap year; the rule is documented in RFC 3339. Numerus checks the calendar date before returning a profile.
An invalid input is not shifted to the next day or assigned a special numerical meaning. Correct the date first. These examples use year-month-day notation to keep the order unambiguous; they do not involve a birth time or time zone.
Repeat the comparison without changing the question
Keep a local note of the position you are checking, the accepted input and the first step that differs. Compare letters before totals, subtotals before reductions, and warnings before interpretations. An empty field, an unsupported name and a valid result reached by another convention need different explanations.
You can reproduce these examples in the calculator without creating an account. The inputs stay in your browser. Arithmetic checks can establish that a rule was followed; they do not establish that its symbolic interpretation describes a person accurately.