Name numerology
Denis: name numerology
Denis reached English through France rather than straight from Greek, and it ends on the lowest value the table has: S is worth 1, the same as A. The five letters total 24 for an Expression of 6, a Personality of 1 and a Soul Urge of 9.
Expression number
6
every letter
Soul Urge number
9
vowels only
Personality number
1
consonants only
Denis, letter by letter
Each letter carries its value from this language’s table. They add to 24, which reduces to an Expression number of 6.
| Letter | Value |
|---|---|
| d | 4 |
| e | 5 |
| n | 5 |
| i | 9 |
| s | 1 |
| Total | 24 |
The breakdown above uses this language’s letter table. The Soul Urge is built from a separate vowel cipher, so adding up the values in this list will not reproduce it.
The French route into English
Denis is Greek Dionysios, belonging to Dionysus, worn down first by Latin Dionysius and then by French. Saint Denis, the bishop who became patron of Paris, is why the short French form travelled: it crossed into English after the Norman conquest and stayed, with Dennis growing up beside it as the commoner respelling. The Slavic Денис took the same Greek name by a different road, so the two spellings are relatives that calculate as strangers.
A light consonant set
D is 4, E is 5, N is 5, I is 9 and S is 1, which totals 24 and reduces to an Expression of 6. The three consonants come to just 10, giving a Personality of 1, and the S that closes the name sits at the bottom of the table, because its third row starts over at 1. I is the heaviest letter at 9, yet in the vowel cipher it counts 6, and with E at 3 the Soul Urge comes to 9: the same digit I carries above, reached by a different route.
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Is Dennis the same name as Denis?
Same name, different spelling. The extra N adds 5 to the consonant side, so the Expression and the Personality both move while the Soul Urge stays at 9.
Why is S worth so little?
The table runs A to I as 1 to 9, starts again at J, and starts over once more at S. Position in the alphabet, not sound, decides the value.
Does the Cyrillic Денис give the same result?
No. It is read through the Russian table, where the final С is worth 8 rather than 1, and all three numbers come out differently.
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