Personality number
The Personality number is the total of the consonants in your full birth name, reduced to one digit or a master number. It describes the outer you: the first impression you give and the way you present yourself.
Also known as: consonant number, first impression number
If the Soul Urge is the inner voice of your name, the Personality number is the outer one. It is read as the image you project, the qualities strangers notice first, and the side of yourself you are most comfortable showing.
Add the consonants of each name using the Pythagorean values, reduce each total on its own, keeping 11, 22 and 33, then add those and reduce again. Y counts as a consonant when it sounds like one, as in Yash. In ANIL, N 5 + L 3 = 8, so the Personality number is 8.
It helps with interviews, first meetings and public roles, because it shows how you come across before people know you well. Some people use it to understand why others read them a certain way, and to adjust how they introduce themselves.
It is not a measure of your true character. Think of it as the front door, not the whole house: read it together with the Soul Urge and Destiny numbers for the fuller picture.