onomantie

Also known as onomancy, onomamancy, onomatomancy, nomancy, Seimei-handan

thumb|right|Onomantic table from the Russian version of the Secretum Secretorum Onomancy (or nomancy) is divination based on a subject's name. Onomancy gained popularity in Europe during the Late Middle Ages, but is said to have originated with the Pythagoreans in antiquity. Several methods of analyzing a name are possible, some of which are based on arithmancy or gematria.