derek73 · derek73 · Sep 7, 2026 · Sep 7, 2026 · Sep 7, 2026 · Sep 7, 2026
diff --git a/docs/design/decisions.md b/docs/design/decisions.md
diff --git a/docs/design/rules.md b/docs/design/rules.md
@@ -74,8 +74,9 @@ H2. Rationale: before a name, an abbreviation is almost always a
     letters, so an abbreviation in a script whose letters carry
     combining vowel signs (Bengali, Devanagari) never reads as a
     title by shape — an unlisted abugida honorific stays a name
-    word, and only vocabulary (#343) can recognize it.
-      "প্রফেসর. Sen"              →  given="প্রফেসর."
+    word, and only vocabulary can recognize it — which is what #343
+    and #344 supply for Bengali and Devanagari.
+      "প্রকৌশলী. Sen"             →  given="প্রকৌশলী."
     Accepted: before a family comma the pre-comma text is wholly the
     family name (C1), so no shape or vocabulary reading makes a
     title there.

diff --git a/docs/locales.rst b/docs/locales.rst
@@ -14,9 +14,13 @@ What works without a pack
 --------------------------
 
 Most international names need no pack at all. The default vocabulary
-covers five scripts — Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Arabic and Hebrew, plus
-Devanagari titles — so honorifics, conjunctions and name particles in
-those scripts are recognized out of the box:
+covers seven scripts — Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Arabic, Hebrew,
+Devanagari and Bengali. Honorifics, conjunctions and name particles
+written in them are recognized out of the box, as far as each script's
+vocabulary reaches: all seven ship honorifics, while conjunctions and
+particles reach fewer — Cyrillic and Greek ship conjunctions and no
+particle, Hebrew particles and no conjunction, Devanagari and Bengali
+honorifics only.
 
 .. doctest::
 

diff --git a/docs/release_log.rst b/docs/release_log.rst
@@ -14,6 +14,16 @@ Release Log
 
     - **Fix Parser.revise() splitting a space-separated suffix value into comma-separated entries.** ``Parser().revise(n, suffix="MD PhD").suffix`` is ``MD PhD`` and was ``MD, PhD``, and a name's own rendered suffix now revises back to itself for all but one of the 38 differential-corpus names that failed to on 2026-09-06 (368 of the 1117 carry a suffix) (recipe in the ``C1`` entry of ``docs/design/decisions.md``; the one left is a Korean honorific glued to an initial, which the value's own parse peels where the whole name kept it glued -- a word read on its own, not an entry boundary). A suffix value's entries are now derived from the value's own commas by the same rule a whole name uses: a comma parts two credentials and a space joins them, so ``revise(n, suffix="MD, PhD")`` is still two entries. ``revise(n, suffix="Ph. D.")`` renders ``Ph. D.`` where the 2.2.0 note below accepted ``Ph., D.``; the head-position merge that note describes still does not fire, the pair joining under the entry rule instead. One limit: a delimiter configured through ``extra_suffix_delimiters`` parts a value only where the value's own words read as a name with a tail segment, so in a run of post-nominals it stays a word; write a comma at the boundary instead. ``ParsedName.replace()`` is unchanged (closes #511)
 
+    **Additions**
+
+    - **Add the renunciate titles to the given-name title list, so a renunciate's one name is a given name.** ``HumanName("Swami Vivekananda")`` gives first ``Vivekananda`` with an empty last name, where every release since 1.4.0 gave last ``Vivekananda``; ``Guru Nanak``, ``Baba Ramdev`` and ``Lama Zopa`` move the same way, and so do the Devanagari and Bengali spellings added below. Two name words behind the title are unchanged -- ``Swami Vivekananda Saraswati`` keeps last ``Saraswati`` -- and a surname-retaining title is untouched: ``Rabbi Cohen`` still gives last ``Cohen``. ``venerable`` is deliberately not in the list, the traditions using it splitting on whether the family name survives. See the ``indic-honorifics`` entry of ``docs/design/decisions.md`` (closes #346)
+
+    - **Add trailing honorifics as post-nominal vocabulary:** Latin ``rinpoche``, Devanagari ``जी``, ``साहब``, ``साहिब``, ``साहेब``, ``महाराज``, and Bengali ``সাহেব``, ``বাবু``, ``মহারাজ``. ``HumanName("Lama Zopa Rinpoche")`` reads title ``Lama``, first ``Zopa``, suffix ``Rinpoche``; ``नरेन्द्र मोदी जी`` reads last ``मोदी``, suffix ``जी``. They are recognized SPACED only and are deliberately absent from ``Lexicon.honorific_tails``: Banerjee, Mukherjee and Chatterjee end in the ``जी`` substring (``बनर्जी``, ``मुखर्जी``, ``चटर्जी``), so a glued peel would cut a real family name in two, and ``गांधीजी`` staying unpeeled is the accepted cost. Bengali ``বাবু`` is trailing where Devanagari ``बाबू`` is a leading title (#344, #343)
+
+    - **Add Devanagari honorifics (#344):** ``डॉक्टर``, ``डा``, ``प्रो``, ``प्रोफेसर``, ``प्राध्यापक``, ``प्रा``, ``पंडित``, ``पं``, ``सरदार``, ``सुश्री``, ``श्रीयुत``, ``श्रीमान``, ``सौ``, ``बाबू``, ``महात्मा``, ``न्यायमूर्ति``, ``मौलाना``, ``जनाब`` and ``महाराजा`` as titles, beside the ``श्री``/``श्रीमती``/``डॉ`` that shipped in 2.1.0, and ``स्वामी``, ``गुरु``, ``बाबा``, ``संत`` as given-name titles. ``डॉक्टर शर्मा`` reads title ``डॉक्टर``, last ``शर्मा``; ``स्वामी विवेकानंद`` reads first ``विवेकानंद`` with no last name. Dotted spellings (``प्रो.``, ``पं.``) match the same entries. Excluded under the collision rule: ``कुमारी`` (Kumari is a given and a family name), ``बेगम``, ``शेख``, ``आचार्य``, ``राजा``/``रानी`` and ``ठाकुर``, all borne as ordinary names (closes #344)
+
+    - **Add Bengali honorifics -- the first Bengali vocabulary in the default lexicon (#343):** ``ড``, ``ডঃ``, ``ডক্টর``, ``ডাঃ``, ``ডা``, ``ডাক্তার``, ``শ্রী``, ``শ্রীমতী``, ``জনাব``, ``অধ্যাপক``, ``প্রফেসর``, ``বিচারপতি``, ``মাওলানা``, ``মুফতি``, ``আলহাজ্ব``, ``আলহাজ``, ``মিঃ``, ``মি``, ``মিসেস``, ``মোঃ``, ``মো``, ``মোসাঃ``, ``মোসা``, ``মোছাঃ`` and ``মোছা`` as titles, and ``স্বামী``, ``শ্রীল``, ``গুরু``, ``বাবা`` as given-name titles. ``ড. মুহাম্মদ ইউনূস`` reads title ``ড.``, first ``মুহাম্মদ``, last ``ইউনূস`` -- the vocabulary beats the initial reading -- while real initials are untouched: ``র. কে. নারায়ণ`` is unchanged. ``মোঃ আবদুল করিম`` reads title ``মোঃ``, first ``আবদুল``, last ``করিম``, the mirror of Latin ``Md``; the visarga spelling and the ``মো.`` period spelling both match, and the women's ``মোসাঃ``/``মোসা.`` rides the same pair of entries. ``ঠাকুর`` stays out, being Tagore. Latin transliterations (``Sri``, ``Pandit``, ``Mst``) are not added -- they collide with real given names where the native scripts cannot -- and belong to the opt-in packs of #345 (closes #343)
+
 * 2.2.0 - August 31, 2026
 
     nameparser 2.2 is a rename plus about thirty parsing fixes.

diff --git a/nameparser/config/suffixes.py b/nameparser/config/suffixes.py
@@ -93,6 +93,28 @@
     'さま',      # ja the kana spelling of 様
     'くん',      # ja the kana spelling of 君
     'ちゃん',    # ja familiar/diminutive
+    # #346/#344/#343: spaced trailing honorifics, South Asian and
+    # Tibetan. SPACED ONLY -- none of these is in GLUED_HONORIFICS
+    # below, and none may be added to it. जी is the reason and the
+    # reason generalizes: Banerjee, Mukherjee and Chatterjee are
+    # written बनर्जी, मुखर्जी, चटर्जी, so a glued peel would strand a
+    # fragment on a bare virama (बनर् + जी) -- the 殿 criterion in a
+    # non-CJK script. गांधीजी therefore stays unpeeled, which is the
+    # accepted trade (decisions.md#indic-honorifics).
+    # NOTE the leading/trailing split across the two scripts, which is
+    # real and must not be "harmonized": Devanagari बाबू is a LEADING
+    # honorific -- a TITLES entry (#344), not a suffix -- while Bengali
+    # বাবু is TRAILING (অমল বাবু). Different codepoints, so the two
+    # entries cannot interact.
+    'rinpoche',  # bo postpositional (Sogyal Rinpoche, Lama Zopa Rinpoche)
+    'जी',        # hi/mr the universal respect particle (मोदी जी)
+    'साहब',      # hi Sahib
+    'साहिब',     # hi/pa the Sahib spelling with the i-matra
+    'साहेब',     # mr the Marathi Saheb spelling
+    'महाराज',    # hi Maharaj, trailing; the leading महाराजा is a TITLES entry (#344)
+    'সাহেব',     # bn Saheb (রহমান সাহেব)
+    'বাবু',      # bn Babu -- TRAILING; see the note above
+    'মহারাজ',    # bn Maharaj
 })
 """
 
@@ -158,6 +180,11 @@
   (Madono) with four-figure populations, so peeling it would cut a real
   family name in two. Spaced 殿 is safe for the reason 양/군 are: a
   殿-surnamed person's name LEADS, and the suffix gate is trailing-only.
+* The Indic trailing set (जी, साहब, साहिब, साहेब, महाराज, সাহেব, বাবু,
+  মহারাজ) and Latin rinpoche are spaced-only for the same reason 殿 is:
+  जी ends Banerjee/Mukherjee/Chatterjee (बनर्जी, मुखर्जी, चटर्जी) and a
+  glued peel would strand बनर् on a bare virama. The criterion is not
+  CJK-specific, which is the point (decisions.md#indic-honorifics).
 
 Three more are in NEITHER set, so neither spelling is recognized. 君: 王君 is
 a complete Chinese name (君 is a common given-name final), so the honorific

diff --git a/nameparser/config/titles.py b/nameparser/config/titles.py
@@ -3,17 +3,35 @@
 GIVEN_NAME_TITLES = frozenset({
     'aunt',
     'auntie',
+    # #346: the renunciate class -- 'baba' here, and 'guru', 'lama',
+    # 'swami' in their own alphabetical places below. All four were in
+    # the TITLES-only block until 2026-09-06. Two separate criteria
+    # both say yes (rules.md#H Background): the title addresses by the
+    # GIVEN name, which is what membership here means, and the
+    # traditions renounce the surname, which is what makes the empty
+    # family the right output for "Swami Vivekananda". 'rabbi' and
+    # 'imam' address by TITLE rather than by given name ('Rabbi
+    # Cohen'), so they fail the first criterion and stay out, and the
+    # second agrees, those traditions keeping surnames;
+    # 'venerable' stays in TITLES only, because the traditions using it
+    # split on surname retention (Buddhist monastics drop the family
+    # name, Anglican archdeacons keep it) and this set has no way to
+    # say "sometimes".
+    'baba',
     'brother',
     'dame',
     'father',
+    'guru',
     'king',
+    'lama',
     'maid',
     'master',
     'mother',
     'pope',
     'queen',
     'sir',
     'sister',
+    'swami',
     'uncle',
     'sheikh',
     'sheik',
@@ -48,6 +66,31 @@
     'الحاجة',      # hajj honorific (f)
     'الشيخة',      # female counterpart of الشيخ
     'مهندس',       # engineer (a genuine title in Egyptian usage)
+
+    # #344: Devanagari renunciate titles, the native-script twins of
+    # baba/guru/swami above. NO Latin twins for संत on purpose. No NEW
+    # Latin transliterations here: Sri and Sant collide with real
+    # given names (and Pandit, in the civil block below, with a
+    # surname) where the native script cannot (the sri/shri
+    # precedent in the TITLES block below); baba/guru/swami/lama are
+    # the pre-existing Latin entries above. Being in this literal puts
+    # them in TITLES too, TITLES being GIVEN_NAME_TITLES | {...}, which
+    # is what makes them titles at all -- Lexicon does not validate one
+    # set against the other.
+    'स्वामी',      # Swami
+    'गुरु',        # Guru
+    'बाबा',        # Baba
+    'संत',         # Sant
+
+    # #343: Bengali renunciate titles. Same two criteria as the Latin
+    # and Devanagari sets (rules.md#H Background), and no NEW Latin
+    # transliterations -- srila has none; baba/guru/swami already ship
+    # above. শ্রীল is the Vaishnava honorific (শ্রীল প্রভুপাদ);
+    # unprefixed শ্রী is civil and sits in TITLES below.
+    'স্বামী',      # Swami
+    'শ্রীল',       # Srila
+    'গুরু',        # Guru
+    'বাবা',        # Baba
 })
 """
 When these titles appear with a single other name, that name is a given name, e.g.
@@ -142,7 +185,6 @@
     'author',
     'award-winning',
     'ayatollah',
-    'baba',
     'bailiff',
     'ballet',
     'bandleader',
@@ -355,7 +397,6 @@
     'großfürst',
     'group',
     'guitarist',
-    'guru',
     'gyani',
     'gysgt',
     'hajji',
@@ -400,7 +441,6 @@
     'kingdom',
     'knowledge',
     'lady',
-    'lama',
     'lamido',
     'law',
     'lawyer',
@@ -664,7 +704,6 @@
     'superior',
     'supreme',
     'surgeon',
-    'swami',
     'swordbearer',
     'sysselmann',
     'tax',
@@ -776,6 +815,81 @@
     'श्री',        # Shri (Mr.)
     'श्रीमती',     # Shrimati (Mrs.)
     'डॉ',         # Dr. abbreviation
+    # #344: the civil set, same no-NEW-Latin-transliterations rule as
+    # the three above.
+    # Excluded under the collision rule and recorded here so a sweep
+    # does not ship them -- ठाकुर (Tagore, the surname), कुमारी, बेगम,
+    # शेख, आचार्य, राजा/रानी are all borne as ordinary names. Full
+    # argument: decisions.md Excluded (TITLES).
+    'डॉक्टर',      # Doctor, full form
+    'डा',          # Dr. -- the डा. abbreviation (Nepali and older Hindi),
+                   # edge-period normalized
+    'प्रो',        # Prof. abbreviation
+    'प्रोफेसर',    # Professor, full form
+    'प्राध्यापक',  # Professor (the Sanskritic form)
+    'प्रा',        # Prof. abbreviation, Marathi
+    'पंडित',       # Pandit
+    'पं',          # Pandit abbreviation
+    'सरदार',       # Sardar
+    'सुश्री',      # Ms.
+    'श्रीयुत',     # Shriyut (Mr.)
+    'श्रीमान',     # Shriman (Mr.)
+    'सौ',          # Marathi Sau. (Mrs.)
+    'बाबू',        # Babu -- LEADING in Hindi; Bengali বাবু is trailing
+                   # and lives in suffixes.py. Different codepoints.
+    'महात्मा',     # Mahatma -- civil, not renunciate: it addresses by
+                   # surname ("महात्मा गांधी"), so TITLES only
+    'न्यायमूर्ति', # Justice
+    'मौलाना',      # Maulana
+    'जनाब',        # Janab (Mr.)
+    'महाराजा',     # Maharaja, LEADING (trailing महाराज is a suffix word)
+
+    # #343: Bengali (bn). NO Latin twins, for the reason the
+    # Devanagari block above gives -- transliterated Sri/Md/Mst
+    # collide with real given names where the native script cannot.
+    # No NEW Latin transliterations here (sri, mst); Latin md already
+    # ships, and for the medical degree
+    # (decisions.md#indic-honorifics). Doctor abbreviations
+    # split by profession: ড./ডঃ is the PhD's, ডাঃ/ডা. the Bangladeshi
+    # physician's. Abbreviation marks are spelled as written -- the
+    # visarga ঃ (U+0983) is a spacing combining mark, and the lookup
+    # fold strips only edge periods and whitespace, so it reaches the
+    # lexicon intact -- while period spellings (মো., ডা.) match the
+    # bare stem through the edge-period normalization, which is why
+    # each stem is listed once and the dotted form is not listed at
+    # all.
+    # Excluded under the collision rule and recorded here so a sweep
+    # does not ship them -- ঠাকুর (Tagore, the surname), কুমারী, বেগম
+    # and শেখ are all borne as ordinary names. Full argument:
+    # decisions.md Excluded (TITLES).
+    'ড',           # Dr. abbreviation (PhD)
+    'ডঃ',          # Dr. abbreviation, visarga spelling
+    'ডক্টর',       # Doctor, full form
+    'ডাঃ',         # Dr. abbreviation (physician), visarga spelling
+    'ডা',          # Dr. abbreviation (physician)
+    'ডাক্তার',     # Doctor, full form (physician)
+    'শ্রী',        # Shri (Mr.)
+    'শ্রীমতী',     # Shrimati (Mrs.)
+    'জনাব',        # Janab (Mr.)
+    'অধ্যাপক',     # Professor
+    'প্রফেসর',     # Professor, borrowed form
+    'বিচারপতি',    # Justice
+    'মাওলানা',     # Maulana
+    'মুফতি',       # Mufti (Latin mufti ships too)
+    'আলহাজ্ব',     # Alhaj
+    'আলহাজ',       # Alhaj, the spelling without the ব-phala
+    'মিঃ',         # Mr., borrowed
+    'মি',          # the same, period spelling মি.
+    'মিসেস',       # Mrs., borrowed
+    'মোঃ',         # Md. (Mohammad) -- a name PREFIX, not a title
+                   # semantically; TITLES is the functional home
+                   # because `given` must stay the name the person is
+                   # addressed by (decisions.md#indic-honorifics)
+    'মো',          # the same, period spelling মো.
+    'মোসাঃ',       # Mst. (Mosammat), the women's counterpart
+    'মোসা',        # the same, period spelling মোসা.
+    'মোছাঃ',       # the same, ছ spelling
+    'মোছা',        # the same, period spelling মোছা.
 }