Family Name Number
This number shows what you goals and aspirations that you have in common with your family. This is important, because for most people today, their family name (or surname) has been carried on through several generations. Your family name represents shared and common interests.
Your last name represents a strong bond that you have with your immediate family, and is a connection to the past. Many of us today have felt a need to understand what our ancestors were like, and have been drawn into genealogy.
Understanding the meaning and origins of your name with the help of genealogy and Numerology can help you to better understand the lives of those who came before you. It can help you to shine a light on your own interests and desires today. Allowing yourself to better understand the deeply held beliefs, family patterns and spiritual interests of your immediate and ancestral family can help you to better understand the influence of your last name.
Psychologist have long looked at intergenerational patterns and how they shape our lives. These patterns can be positive or negative. You might become a doctor, like your father and his father did. You might also unconsciously pass on limiting beliefs or negative habits to your children. Without active intervention on our part, our particular family patterns tend to be repeated across generations. This process of passing on family patterns can be related to a few different reasons. Some of our patterns can be connected to our genetic makeup. And, some of our patterns can be related back to our psychological connections with our family.
Almost 5000 years ago the Chinese were one of the first cultures to utilize the use of surnames. However, throughout most of their early history, surnames were associated with the elite and surnames were often used as symbols of power and nobility. Surnames did not become widely used in Europe until around the year 1000 AD. Gradually throughout Europe, all the nobility took on surnames until eventually surnames came to be used by all Europeans.
Have you ever wondered about what your last name meant? If you begin to study your last name, you will find that it reveals many general aspects about your family and others with the same surname. You may want to spend some time for the contemplation of your last name, so that you can better understand the family patterns, dynamics and emotional energies that it represents. Count the letters and compare the numbers. Does your last name have a certain letter or number that repeats? Do you have any letter patterns that are also in your first name?
We tend to develop similarly to our parents and grandparents. Since, we have something in common with our families, your connection to your family, and your common interests and abilities can influence the way in which you mature in your life. However, we all have free will and have our own personal experiences. Your family name may help to color your life, but know that you are your own person, and your pursuing your interests can only help you to mature and grow as an individual.
It is also interesting to note the willingness of those of us who change their names because of a marriage or for other reasons. These people are taking on new opportunities and challenges through the name change. Their lives will always be colored by their original last name, but they will now also be influenced by the new name.
Your Family Name number
Your Family Name number is found by adding up all of the numeric values for all of the letters in your last name. You can use the Letter Chart tool to calculate your own Family Name number.
Your Family Name number can help to illustrate the personal patterns, general emotions, attitudes, moods, and personal characteristics that you share with your family. Being aware and conscious of your emotions and how you connect with and relate to your family can help you to mature and grow as an individual. Knowing how you act and feel is important, as is finding a way to develop compassion, acceptance, and tolerance for your parents, yourself and other members of your family.
The Family Name number describes the drives and tasks that you, as a member of a particular family, will feel compelled to achieve in this lifetime. This is especially true when we are given the first name of a parent or grandparent. It often falls to children to accomplish those dreams that a parent didn't or couldn't resolve. This number can help you to be more aware of the ways in which external family influences can shape our lives and drive us to succeed in our life challenges.
Your Family Name number can also be used to show how you deal with and relate to challenging situations around money, feelings, work and relationships. Our families help to shape us, and unless we are willing to challenge those beliefs that are self limiting, we'll hold some of their stronger beliefs within us. It's up to you and me, to discover a way to believe in ourselves. Those of us with a Family Name number of 1, 4 or 8 may have an easier time than the rest of us, especially when it comes to our drive around money. Those people with a 2, 3 or 6 may have an easier time than the rest of us, especially when it comes to our drive around relationships and feelings. Those people with a 5, 7 or 9 may have an easier time that the rest of us, especially when it comes to working with intuition, strategy and feelings.
Family Name number 1
Those people with a Family Name number 1 often feel happier when they have allowed themselves to step outside of their families, and found their own voice and power. In healthy families, they will be encouraged from a young age to be proud, dynamic and courageous. They will be taught to be honorable and to stand up for themselves. They may be strong and independent, but, as they mature they will learn how to balance the need for independence, with connection wisdom and compassion.
Key Emotions:
Pride, Dignity, Pomposity, Vanity, Modesty, Arrogance
Family Name Number: 2
For those people with a Family Name number 2, a strong and healthy family life is very important and need. As they mature, they will become closer to their families and come to need them for recharging themselves. At times, they may put their needs ahead of the family, but they know that they feel best when their family is together and happy.
For these people, their positive early experiences of supportive family life, can lead them toward careers and avocations that provide support and encouragement for others.
Key Emotions:
Connected, Isolated, Compassion, Honesty, Understanding, Sympathetic
Family Name number: 3
Those people with a Family Name number 3 will generally have early family experiences in life that draw them them toward being innovative, inventive and creative. Their family and friends can allow them to see that supporting others and developing community is important and noble.
They can be the best people to look for, when you need someone to support your cause. They can seem to know everyone. They seem to possess an inner sense of belonging, as no matter where they are they can fit right in. These are the people that come from the family that has the regular weekend barbecue, and hosts the seasonal parties for the neighborhood.
Key Emotions:
Optimistic, Caring, Empathetic, Joyful, Sour, Dowdy
Family Name number: 4
Those people with a Family Name number 4 will generally have early family experiences in life that encourage them to be practical and down to earth. They may have fantastic and incredible imaginations, but they also have a deep understanding that before you can succeed in anything, you have to do the preparations and lay the groundwork.
They can be the people to look for if you are starting a business, or running for political office. They are the organizers and supporters in the background, keeping things running smoothly and efficiently.
Family life can teach them the importance of responsibility, accountability and taking ownership of their life. When they believe in themselves, there will be nothing that can hold them back from success.
Key Emotions:
Kind, Merciful, Considerate, Ruthless, Cold, Remorseful
Family Name number: 5
Those people with a Family Name number 5 will generally have early family experiences in life that encourage them to think on their feet, be quick learners and ready for change. Others will then be drawn to them for their penetrating insights, critical observations and innovative ideas. As they grew up, these were the children who never stopped asking "Why?"
Family life can teach these people that we benefit from gaining a better understanding of the world around us. These are the children who are willing to look under every rock, and behind every tree so that they can learn something new about nature. They are naturally inquisitive.
Key Emotions:
Curious, Open, Greedy, Caring, Seeking, Frugal, Giving
Family Name number: 6
Those people with a Family Name number 6 will generally have early family experiences in life that encourage them to be helpful, responsible, and honorable. These are the people to go to, when you want to feel nurtured and supported. Family life can often instill a deep sense of commitment in them, and they will willingly make sacrifices for the good of others.
Key Emotions:
Hospitable, Parenting, Concerned, Compassionate, Cold, Aloof
Family Name number: 7
Those people with a Family Name number 7 will generally have early family experiences in life that encourage them to be curious, thoughtful and insightful. Others will be drawn to them, because these are the people who are willing to ask questions. They are also tenacious and patient, so they can be extremely willing to wait for the answers that they want to here.
Key Emotions:
Dogmatic, Faithful, Searching, Curious, Apathetic, Connected
Family Name number: 8
Those people with a Family Name number 8 will generally have early family experiences in life that encourage them to be the champions for their families and communities. They don't mind being the center of attention, and probably are willing to accept being in the spotlight. Others will be drawn to them for their preparedness, experiences, stamina, courage and convictions. They may not like to back down and can be seen as stubborn at times.
Key Emotions:
Greed, Passion, Respect, Pride, Loyalty, Courage
Family Name number: 9
Those people with a Family Name number 9 will generally have early family experiences in life that allow them to feel part of the world around them. They feel better when they have a strong sense of purpose and belonging. When they can help others to feel happy, then they can feel at peace with themselves.
Key Emotions:
Caring, Sympathetic, Compassion, Inspirational, Compulsive, Bitter
