onomancy means divination by the letters of a name; nomancy. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Why “onomancy” is a great word
ONOMANCY — [Noun] The art of divining fate or character through the letters and sounds of a name. From Ancient Greek ὄνομα (ónoma, "name") + -mancy ("divination"). Unlike onomastics, which catalogs names with academic dispassion, or numerology, which reduces the world to a universal cipher of digits, onomancy extracts destiny from the specific alphanumeric cipher of an individual's appellation. It is the fortune-teller tallying the vowels of a child's name to predict their temperament, the anxious rearrangement of initials to avoid an unlucky sum, and the tactile labor of tracing the loops of its letters on worn paper to feel its weight—a quiet insistence that destiny is not written in the stars, but in the signature we never chose.
noun
- divination by the letters of a name; nomancy