Title: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

(In the context of property law, title refers to ownership or documents of ownership; see title (property).)

A title is a prefix or suffix added to a person's name to signify either veneration, an official position or a professional or academic qualification.

Titles of veneration

• Adept
• Bwana
• Chief
• Elder
• Esquire
• Führer
• Guru
• Leader
• Mahatma
• Master
• Sir
• Swami
• Śrī

Note: Some official titles are carried strictly for the term of the office, while others are customarily retained after the office is retired.

Ruling

• Alderman
• Ban
• Baron
• Baroness
• Baronet
• Bey
• Black Rod
• Caliph
• Commissioner
• Councillor
• Count
• Count palatine
• Countess
• Dictator
• Duchess
• Duke
• Earl
• Elector
• Emir
• Emperor
• Empress
• Gauleiter
• General Secretary
• Governor
• Governor-General
• Grand duchess
• Grand duke
• High Commissioner
• His/Her Honor
• Jarl
• Khan
• Knez, Kniaz
• Majesty
  • King
  • Queen

• Knight
• Landgrave
• Lord
• Maharadja
• Marchioness
• Marquis
• Marquise
• Mayor
• Minister
• MEP
• MP
• Nawab
• People's Commissar
• Prebendary
• Premier
• President
• Prime Minister
• Rajah

• Rangatira
• Regent
• Secretary General
• Seigneur
• Senator
• Shah
• Sheriff
• Speaker
• Steward
• Sultan
• Sultana
• Surgeon General
• Tribune
• Tsar
• Tsarevna
• Tyrant
• Vicereine
• Viceroy
• Viscount

Clerical

• Archbishop
• Archdeacon
• Bishop
• Deacon
• Deaconess
• Patriarch
• Pontiff
• Pope
• Presbyter
• Priest
• Priestess
• Rabbi
• Reverend

• Advocate
• Bailiff
• Barrister
• Doctor
• Graduate
• Lecturer
• MBA
• M.D.
• Notary
• Officer
• Professor
• Ph.D.
• Queen's Counsel
• Reader

Titles conventionally appended to persons' names in social life. Some professional titles are used in social life, such as Rev.; others usually are not (Dr., for example, is generally not used in the US in the case of a Ph.D. but is used for the medical professionals; in other countries, for example the UK, it is considered somewhat inappropriate for non-academics to use Dr. solely on the strength of a medical degree).

• Mr.
• Ms.
• Mrs.
• Miss