Irish mythology is full of names with real weight to them — gods, heroes, and legendary figures whose stories have survived for over a thousand years. Here's what some of the best-known names come out to under standard English-alphabet gematria.
Why calculate gematria on mythological names?
Gematria was never limited to religious or biblical text — the same letter-to-number method can be applied to any word or name, including figures from other mythologies. It won't tell you anything the Irish scholars and storytellers who first told these myths intended (English-alphabet gematria wasn't part of the Old Irish/Middle Irish literary tradition), but it's a fun way to explore numeric patterns across a set of names, and a nice example of how flexible the gematria method is.
Figures from the Gods of Ireland
The table below runs several major figures from Irish mythology — gods, a founding heroine, and legendary queens — through Ordinal (simple A=1 to Z=26) and Pythagorean gematria. If you want the full story behind any of these names, Gods of Ireland has a dedicated, sourced entry for each one, including their myths, relationships, and place in the wider mythological cycles.