Numerology Research: What We Counted

The studies

1. Life path number statistics

   Every calendar date from January 1, 1930 to December 31, 2025, 35,064 in all, run through both common life path methods.

   33 is the rarest life path at 0.8% of dates; the two methods give different numbers on 12.8% of dates.

   Three CSV files and the Python script, below.

2. The same count, weighted by real births

   A check of the date count against 62,187,024 US births from 2000 to 2014 (Social Security Administration figures, as published by FiveThirtyEight).

   Weighting by births moves no life path share by more than 0.12 percentage points.

   The source file is public; the link is on the statistics page.

3. How common master numbers are

   The 35,064 dates again, this time counting 11, 22 and 33 in the life path, the birthday and the steps in between.

   10.35% of dates give a master number life path; 18.72% have one in the life path or the birthday.

   Figures on the page; no separate file.

4. How common karmic debt is

   Each date checked for 13, 14, 16 and 19 before the last step of the life path, and in the birth day.

   34.26% of dates carry at least one debt number in the life path or the birthday.

   Figures on the page; no separate file.

5. Personal years in 2026 and 2027

   Every date put through the personal year formula for 2026 and for 2027.

   In 2027, 10.1% of dates reach 11 or 22 before the last step.

   Figures on the page; no separate file.

6. Life path pairs

   Two dates from the same count picked at random, for each of the 42 pairs that have their own page: how likely the pair is and which routes lead to each number.

   Each of the three number families (1-5-7, 2-4-8, 3-6-9) covers a third of all dates, so a same-family couple is a one-in-three event.

   Figures on each pair page.

7. Destiny Matrix karmic tails

   All 35,064 dates worked through the Destiny Matrix method, keeping the three-number tail at the bottom of the chart.

   Only 26 different tails ever come out, and the page shows why.

   Figures on the page; no separate file.

8. Destiny Matrix arcana

   The personality, soul and birth cards of every date, worked out two ways.

   The two ways disagree on the personality card for 44.4% of dates.

   Figures on the page; no separate file.

9. Destiny Matrix compatibility

   200,000 random pairs of birth dates between 1955 and 2007, put through the couple chart.

   How often each center comes up in a couple chart, shown as a share, not a score.

   Figures on the page; no separate file.

10. Birthday number and life path

    The birthday number of every date set beside its life path.

    The two numbers are the same on 9.5% of dates.

    Figures on the page; no separate file.

11. First names in two letter tables

    102,771 first names from the Social Security Administration baby-name files, 1930 to 2025, weighted by how many babies got each name.

    Switching from the Pythagorean to the Chaldean table changes the expression number for 91.9% of them.

    Source files are public (SSA); no separate file of ours.

12. Full names and the destiny number

    1,000,000 model full names: first and middle names from the SSA files and a last name from the 162,253 surnames of the 2010 census list, each drawn by how common it is.

    How often each destiny number comes up, and how often calculator methods disagree on the same name.

    Source files are public (SSA, US Census Bureau); the names are a model, not real people.

13. US house numbers

    3,822,759 address points from 7 open city and county files, each house number reduced to one digit.

    Each digit from 1 to 9 takes close to a ninth of addresses; 33 comes up on 0.07%.

    Source files are open data; links are on the page.

14. Angel numbers on a clock

    Every minute of a 12-hour and a 24-hour clock, sorted into repeats, mirrors, steps and pairs.

    138 minutes of a 12-hour day show a patterned time, 9.58% of the day.

    Figures on the page; no separate file.

Data files

The life path count is the one we publish in full. The files are free to use under CC BY 4.0 with a link to the statistics page, which also has a ready citation.

• Life path of every date, 1930–202535,064 rows: the date, the reduced month, day and year, both totals and both life path numbers.
• Life path by year96 rows: how many dates of each year give each number.
• Life path summary12 rows: dates and share per number, both methods.
• The scriptPython 3, standard library only; it writes all three files.

For the other studies the figures sit on their pages. The name, birth and address counts start from public files (Social Security Administration, US Census Bureau, FiveThirtyEight, city open-data portals), and each page links to its source.

Method in short

• No samples for dates. The date studies go through every day from January 1, 1930 to December 31, 2025, leap days included. The couple chart is the one exception: 200,000 random pairs.
• The standard method. Unless a page says otherwise, month, day and year are reduced separately and then added, and 11, 22 and 33 are kept whole. Where calculators split on a rule, the page counts both ways and says how many results change.
• Counts, not predictions. A share tells you how often an arithmetic result comes up. Nothing here says a rare number is luckier or harder than a common one.
• Checked at build time. The figures are read from data files when the site is built, and the build stops if a page and its data disagree.

The full method, how we test the calculators and how the texts are written: How we create our readings.

Compiled by The Number Atlas editorial team. Every figure on this page is pulled from the same data files as the study pages it links to. Found an error? Tell us.