Gematria Calculator

Gematria is the practice of assigning numerical values to letters and summing them to a single number. It originated in Hebrew tradition and has been extended over the centuries to many alphabets, including Greek (where it is called isopsephy) and English, each with multiple cipher systems.

There is no single "meaning" of a gematria number. The number is simply the sum of letter values under a chosen cipher. Different traditions read different things into matching values, but mathematically a match only tells you that two phrases have the same letter-value sum.

Yes. Switch the calculator to Compare Phrases and enter up to five words, names, or phrases. Every cipher you have switched on is applied to each phrase and the results appear in one table, so you can read across a row for one phrase or down a column for one cipher. Any value shared by two or more phrases in the same cipher is marked, so matches are easy to spot without scanning the numbers yourself.

Yes. The cipher toggles above the calculator turn each of the six ciphers on or off, and there are one-click shortcuts for all ciphers or the four English ciphers only. Your selection applies to the totals, the letter-by-letter breakdown, and the comparison table.

English ciphers (like Ordinal A=1…Z=26) are modern systems built on the Latin alphabet. Standard Hebrew gematria assigns 1–9 to the first nine letters, 10–90 to the next nine, and 100–400 to the last four. Greek isopsephy works similarly with 1–9, 10–90, and 100–800 plus the obsolete numeral letters digamma (6), koppa (90), and sampi (900).

Four English ciphers: Ordinal, Reverse Ordinal, Reduction (Pythagorean), and Sumerian (Ordinal × 6). Standard Hebrew gematria and Greek isopsephy complete the six. Type letters from any of those alphabets and the relevant ciphers appear in the results.

No. Only letters in the cipher's alphabet contribute to the total. Spaces, digits, and punctuation are ignored, and English case does not matter. Below the breakdown the calculator lists exactly what it skipped (how many spaces, digits, punctuation marks, and letters outside the scored alphabets), so nothing is silently dropped.

A dash means that phrase contains no letters from that cipher's alphabet. An English word has no value in standard Hebrew gematria, for example, so the Hebrew column shows a dash rather than zero. Showing zero would suggest a real total of nought, which would be misleading, and it would also make unrelated phrases appear to match at zero.

Mathematically, their letter values add up to the same number under that cipher. Several Jewish and esoteric traditions read connections into such matches, but a numerical equality is not, on its own, evidence of any deeper relationship. We give you the math; interpretation depends on your tradition and context.

Yes. Paste Hebrew letters (א–ת) or Greek letters (α–ω plus the obsolete numeral letters) and we compute the standard Hebrew gematria or Greek isopsephy total. Mixed input (for example, an English word alongside its Hebrew form) works too, with each cipher applied to its own alphabet. Dedicated Hebrew and Greek pages are also available if you only need one of those systems.

Type your full name into the input at the top of this page. The totals update as you type, and the letter-by-letter table shows how each character in your name contributes to the running total. To see how your name compares with another word, switch to Compare Phrases and enter both.

English gematria refers to modern cipher systems applied to the Latin alphabet, whereas Jewish (Hebrew) gematria is the traditional system mapping traditional numeric values to the Hebrew alphabet. Hebrew gematria has a two-thousand-year history in Jewish exegesis, while English ciphers like Ordinal or Sumerian were created more recently.

The Sumerian cipher multiplies the standard English Ordinal value by 6, a modern cipher named in reference to the Sumerians' base-60 (sexagesimal) counting system. Under this system, A becomes 6, B becomes 12, and Z becomes 156, scaling all values by a factor of six.

Hebrew and Greek letters historically doubled as numerals, so every word in those languages naturally carries a numerical value. Some passages engage with that directly: the 'number of the beast' (666) in Revelation 13:18 is the best-known case, and it depends on Greek isopsephy. For those alphabets specifically, see the Hebrew gematria and Greek gematria calculators on this site.

No. Numerical coincidences are common: there are far more words than there are plausible totals, so collisions are expected rather than remarkable. Various mystical and esoteric traditions look for meaning in matching sums, but a mathematical equality alone is not evidence of a conceptual relationship.