Was Hitler the apocalyptic 666 beast?

Revelations 13, verse 18 reads:
"This calls for wisdom: let him who has understanding reckon the number of the beast, for it is a human number, its number is six hundred and sixty-six."

It is easy to see that the name Hitler corresponds to this number 666: count A as 100, B as 101, etc. and add up the six numbers. This seems a very striking result, also considering verse 13:
"It works great signs, even making fire come down from heaven to earth in the sight of men."
Hitler was (one of?) the first to use bomber airplanes in warfare. And it seems his family name was originally Hiedler, which was later changed to Hitler.

But in reality, all this hardly means anything. This simple scheme (B=101 etc.) is nothing but a randomising formula. Regardless of whether such a formula is as simple as in this case or very complicated, with any three-digit result, you can expect statistically that of any number of candidate words, approximately one out of every thousand matches this chosen number.

So not surprisingly, there are at least 219 perfectly innocuous English words that also give 666 when subjected to that formula; and there are also 232 such Dutch words, and 23 Portuguese ones. All these are listed below.

There are also many other names, which, using different formulas, arrive at 666, see:
Number 666
and higher level pages:
S. Desrosiers
and:
Biblical numbers and: Occurrences.

See also Wikipedia

So my conclusion, opinion if you like, is that the fact that the number 666 fits to Hitler is just a coincidence, and means nothing at all.

Here are the English words and names that yield 666:

abvolt	actons	alarus	aments	amoret	amulet	Amytal	ancony
anions	Antisi	appose	argute	Aroras	arrant	arseno	ashets
aspish	assise	aswell	atimon	atoxic	attask	attics	Aubrey
axunge	bagwyn	bannut	bauson	berths	beshow	bestay	bigots
Bisley	bisync	blarny	blenny	bluffy	bolter	Bombus	bongos
bonism	bonnaz	bosket	boughs	brevet	brills	brique	bullet
bummer	buoyed	burkas	busing	bustee	butted	bypath	cantos
canyon	carpos	catgut	Cauqui	Cephus	cerris	chelys	chivey
choaty	choirs	cholum	chromo	cibory	citify	closer	coempt
colley	colove	comism	cooper	cotula	couple	cranky	crazes
creepy	cremor	cresol	crewer	criers	Cromer	curing	cushat
cuspal	cuspid	Cypria	cytode	Darius	deftly	dentex	depths
dewcup	dilogy	dinkum	dipter	donjon	doocot	doruck	driven
drupal	duller	Dwayne	dynamo	dzeren	earwax	egipto	Elanus
elopes	emboly	encowl	enwomb	Epizoa	escrol	Eskimo	espier
estufa	eunuch	exacts	extend	extima	eyelet	Farouk	feower
ferret	fezzed	fjords	flocky	fluxed	fother	fraxin	frazil
frocks	froise	fumier	funnel	Furlan	furoic	furred	fusate
fuscin	Gallus	gashly	germon	Gerres	Gervas	glairy	glusid
Godwin	gorals	gorget	gorier	Graves	grouch	growed	Guaque
Guetar	guglet	guilds	hatter	hoaxes	holmes	homish	hoodoo
hooker	hopple	horrid	hosing	housed	humbug	hummel	hunted
hyenas	hymnic	illume	impone	inborn	indues	ionone	isatin
jarfly	jazzed	jokish	Judith	karwar	katipo	keenly	Keftiu
Keltoi	kirker	klepht	knaves	konini	korari	kumhar	kumrah
kurgan	lacrym	lakist	lapses	largos	latent	latten	lawish
legist	lentil	levies	ligure	limens	lintel	lippen	liquid
loculi	logion	lotase	maduro	maguey	maizer	mallum	manito
mantes	manure	mazier	Menura	menzie	Merope	micron	mignon
minish	mirier	modify	moiler	molals	Monday	monger	Montia
mooted	morate	morgen	mucosa	muleta	nasion	nattle	nerval
nervid	newing	nigori	nimmer	nimshi	nipple	nodose	noosed
Nucula	numina	Octans	Olneya	orblet	Orchis	origin	orphan
osteal	Otides	oxbird	Paiute	palter	panmug	payday	paying
peckly	peiser	penner	Pericu	peshwa	phasis	photal	picary
pingue	piqued	piracy	pitaya	Placus	plaint	plaque	plater
pliant	plight	poking	ponder	popped	Pratap	ptinid	puffer
puffin	pugman	quacks	quinch	radius	ramify	Ranjit	reason
reblot	rebolt	reborn	recrew	reguli	rehook	reigns	relbun
repuff	resign	resing	retell	retted	reused	rocket	rugate
sadist	salify	Sansar	Sapota	satire	saving	scarfy	School
scolds	scraze	screve	Scylla	scypha	seduct	seesaw	sejoin
sennas	sepals	septic	serger	Seshat	shanks	shewel	shroff
signer	Silvia	simnel	singer	skiddy	slangs	smitch	solate
soleil	somber	sombre	songle	spahis	spavie	sperma	spewed
spolia	squama	stamen	static	steeds	Sticta	stolae	strack
striae	subdue	sulked	summae	swaraj	taboos	Taisho	talcky
talent	talose	tanner	tannin	tantle	tanzib	Taposa	tappen
tassal	tauric	tavell	tedium	teflon	teller	tendon	Teucer
thight	threat	timing	tinted	toatoa	tomcat	toneme	Tracey
tracks	trepid	Tuareg	Tumboa	uglier	Uirina	umbels	umbles
uncite	unclog	undams	undies	unfold	unioid	Uniola	unlike
unseal	uplick	uratic	ureido	urtica	usages	Usheen	varved
vatted	Vedism	vennel	verdin	vernal	vicars	viking	virago
vocals	vodkas	voicer	wadset	wafers	warday	Waring	wasted
webers	weeper	weight	wheels	wheeze	widish	wields	wincer
yawned	Yerava	yolked	yuccas

And the Dutch words:

afrolt	aftipt	afturf	amulet	bemors	bijzet	blijst	bloter
bokste	bomers	botweg	brevet	buksen	burcht	chromo	chroom
deuvik	deuzig	dolven	dorpen	douwde	drenkt	dringt	dropen
dunnen	dynamo	eerste	eisten	erfoom	eunuch	fissen	flanst
floten	foppen	gaspit	geepst	gehukt	geilst	geknot	geluwd
gemuft	genokt	gepest	gespet	gespte	getast	getikt	getoet
geuten	geword	gliste	gokten	grindt	groeve	hauwen	hevelt
hipten	hitsig	hommer	huisje	hullen	humbug	hummel	idioot
ijkers	ijsjes	inlapt	invoeg	inzend	jeukte	jodium	jonnen
jukken	kaatst	kajuit	karwij	kennis	kersen	ketels	kipsel
knopig	komijn	koopje	kresen	krimpe	kuilen	kwenen	larven
latent	latten	lepper	lepten	leuker	liftte	lijven	lippen
lommen	luiken	maarts	majoor	makron	masten	matras	matsen
merels	merkte	meunen	micron	mikten	moeten	molmen	molsla
monken	morgen	naoogt	natelt	nawerk	nazoek	nestei	neurie
nieste	nijper	nimmer	nippel	niveau	nollen	omdoet	omgord
omhels	omlegt	omrank	omvang	oneens	onwaar	opgiet	ophelp
opkijk	oplees	oprijd	ovatie	palter	papoes	papten	parelt
penner	peuken	pinnen	pleten	pokken	ponder	porden	potige
prijen	prille	radius	refter	regres	remmer	rijpen	rijtje
rijweg	rimram	roerig	rokeer	rolder	royaal	ruggen	rundje
sadist	sarrig	satire	school	schuil	sering	skelet	slalom
sletig	soepel	somber	sperma	staakt	steeds	stekel	summae
tafzij	talent	tappen	tarnen	teller	teugen	tiktak	tillen
toesla	tonden	toomde	topaas	touche	toxica	tranen	treedt
tuffen	uitbik	uitham	velijn	verder	vergas	vermei	vijlen
viking	vinder	virago	vliedt	vlijen	vloden	volden	vondel
vracht	vriend	vroege	walkte	waring	weitje	wenken	wiepen
wijken	willig	worgde	wraken	zeboes	zender	zoogde	zwamde

And the Portuguese words:

aposta	borrar	brique	Bruges	burlar	Egipto	estola	estria
estufa	exigir	faquir	fritar	fundir	humano	insano	lavrar
maduro	mucosa	muleta	ourela	punhal	quando	sapato	sirgar
vidrar

Addition 13 May 2013

See also this Dutch article, with many more formulas, many of which also fit to loads of other names too, showing the hits are not significant and not meaningful.