Salutations and titles in other languages read as given names: Herra Väinö Johansson gives given Herra #606

Rationale

TITLES covers the English, German, French, Italian, Portuguese and Scandinavian salutations (Herr, Frau, Mme, Signora, Senhor, Fru, Frøken, Mevrouw). For many other European and Southeast Asian languages it has none, so the salutation becomes the given name and the real given name drops to middle:

Herra Väinö Johansson          → given Herra, middle Väinö, family Johansson
Doamna Alina-Victoria Popescu  → given Doamna, middle Alina-Victoria
Familie Hansen                 → given Familie, family Hansen

Found reviewing NameAPI's demo examples (Herra, Proua, Doamna, Gospođa, Frú, Familie all appear there) and its posts listing "Mister" and "Graf" equivalents across languages, plus English titles collected from real-world name data.

Criterion

titles has no ambiguous subset, so membership is all-or-nothing: a word qualifies only if it is never borne as a name in the leading position, where the title claim acts (decisions.md#vocabulary-collisions C-i and its position qualifier). That includes a family name written first, as in Vietnamese, Hungarian, or Russian lists. When unsure, the word is excluded (AGENTS.md: "a missing member just means that name isn't auto-handled, whereas a wrong member misparses a real person").

Proposed additions (no known leading-position collision)

Measured with a temporary Lexicon.add(titles=...):

• Every example above moves to title (Herra Väinö Johansson → title Herra, given Väinö; Familie Hansen → title Familie, family Hansen).
• None of the 1,806 names in tools/differential/*.jsonl changes. None of the words appears there, and none appears in tests/ or docs/.
• None overlaps any other vocabulary set (particles, suffixes, conjunctions, bound given names, given-name titles, maiden markers).

These complete multi-word titles that half-work today: Police Commissioner James Gordon currently gives title Police, given Commissioner, and becomes title Police Commissioner, given James. The same goes for General Counsel Jane Doe.

The collision evidence is general knowledge of each word, not a name database. The implementing PR should spot-check each one against a surname/given-name source before landing.

Suffix addition: knt

knt (Knight) is a post-nominal and joins SUFFIX_ACRONYMS beside kt, which is already there. Measured:

Decide: borne as surnames, but only in trailing position

greve (Scandinavian "Count", also a Danish/Norwegian/German surname), graaf (Dutch, also a surname) and knight (a common English surname; Gladys Knight parses correctly). The precedent is graf, which already ships though Steffi Graf exists: Steffi Graf and Graf, Steffi parse correctly. The cost is the uncommaed family-first form, which graf already pays: Graf Steffi → title Graf, family Steffi. Adding these three accepts the same cost for Greve Anna, Graaf Jan and Knight Gladys.

Excluded (recorded in decisions.md's Excluded block)

Out of scope (separate questions)

• Hungarian úr / asszony follow the name (Kovács úr). That's the trailing position, which a bare title word never claims (rules.md#H5). Belongs with the Hungarian ifj./-né question.
• Inflected professional titles (profesora, professora). Leading abbreviations (Profa., Prof.ª) are already titles through the period-abbreviation shape rule; the bare full words are an open-ended class and aren't chased here.
• Title phrases joined by a particle: Profesora de Historia María López → family de Historia María López, because de is a particle where English of is a conjunction. That's a rule question, not vocabulary.
• Words that mark a non-person string: estate, administration, department, commission. These describe the string, not a person, and as titles they misfire: the conjunction chain carries estate into the given name (Estate of John Smith → title Estate of John, no given name), and a trailing Administration never claims. Detecting estates and organisations is a separate feature.

Same-PR obligations

titles.py entries grouped by language with a comment each; knt in suffixes.py; a decisions.md entry recording the per-word C-i check, including the Excluded rows; a release-log bullet; case-table rows contrasting an added word (Herra Väinö Johansson) with an excluded one (Ông Văn Tùng, under the order Vietnamese names use).