---
id: "formaltitle"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["persons"]
langs: ["common"]
quality: 65
url: "http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/formaltitle"
---

# Formal title (`formaltitle`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Title of rank, honour or office written before a person's name, such as Sir, Dame, Lord, Lady, The Honourable or His Excellency. It is more formal than a common title such as Mr or Mrs (civility).

- Parent datatype: `honorificprefix`
- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Person related (persons)
- Countries: global
- Languages: Common to most languages (common)
- Classification: categorical

## Examples

- `Sir` — man with a British knighthood or a baronet
- `Dame` — woman with a British knighthood in her own right
- `Lord` — male peer
- `The Hon.` — The Honourable, used for some officials and judges

## Supported by tools

- `talend`

## Translations

- ru: Титул (сэр, лорд, ваше превосходительство)

## Sources

- wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_honorifics>

## Quality

Score 65/100. Missing: regexp, negative example, mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...).

JSON: <http://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/formaltitle.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/any/persons/formaltitle.yaml>