Sizing guide
Allow about one cubic inch of capacity for every pound the person weighed. Someone who weighed 160 pounds needs roughly 160 cubic inches. That is the standard the funeral industry uses, and it is nearly always enough.
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Their weight before cremation. An estimate is fine.
Many families divide ashes so more than one person can keep them close.
The standard sizes
Urn sizes are named for the weight of the person in life, never the weight of the urn itself. Each of these is built at 1.1 cubic inches per pound, so every size already carries about ten percent of extra room.
| Size | Suits a person of | Capacity |
|---|---|---|
| Smallest | up to 25 lbs | 27.5 cu in |
| 50 lb | up to 50 lbs | 55 cu in |
| 100 lb | up to 100 lbs | 110 cu in |
| 150 lb | up to 150 lbs | 165 cu in |
| 200 lb | up to 200 lbs | 220 cu in |
Small sculptural keepsakes hold 6 to 10 cubic inches, a portion of the ashes rather than all of them.
Two honest rules
Ashes settle and pour more easily into a vessel with a little room to spare, and extra capacity causes no problem at all. The only mistake worth avoiding is choosing something clearly too small. You do not need an exact weight; an estimate is genuinely fine.
And if the ashes will be shared, size each urn for its own share, not for the whole. A 160 pound person divided between two urns needs about 80 cubic inches in each, which is a much smaller vessel than most people guess. The calculator above does that arithmetic for you.
Our largest size suits someone of about 200 pounds and holds 220 cubic inches, so it still fits someone a little over that. Beyond it, dividing between two urns is the usual answer, and a completely normal one.
If it helps
Everform is a small studio in Massachusetts. Each urn is made in soft stone-white engineered ceramic, finished by hand, and offered in all five sizes above, so whichever size the calculator gave you is a size we make.
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