derek73 · Oct 27, 2026 · Oct 27, 2026
diff --git a/AGENTS.md b/AGENTS.md
diff --git a/docs/design/decisions/H9-title-phrase.md b/docs/design/decisions/H9-title-phrase.md
@@ -56,3 +56,10 @@
   - `king` WAS THE WORKED EXAMPLE OF A TITLE THAT IS ALSO A SURNAME, in rules H1, H3 to H8, M2, S2 and S8, their decisions Standing lines, AGENTS.md, docs/usage.rst, two code comments and eleven case rows and tests. Each now uses `pope`, chosen because it reads as `king` read on master in every one of those examples (19 inputs checked against `queen`, `bishop`, `pope`, `baron`, `judge`, `sheriff`, `mayor` and `emperor`; only `pope` and `queen` matched all, `pope` being the commoner surname). decisions/v1-xfail-triage's "`king` stays in TITLES" is superseded there.
   - MEASURED (2026-10-26, against master `957509d1`, py3.11, every local check with `--base`). PSC (1,039,174 scored): 58 records fixed, none broken, 5 changed. fec-individuals 73 moved, all fixes: `AA, KING …` given names (51) and `KING AA, AA` family parts that H6 had peeled (22). ctgov-officials 12, all fixes: officials whose given name is King (`King A. Aa`), and one whose credential master read as the given name (`Aa King, AA Aa` → given 'Aa', family 'King', the credentials suffixes). tse-donors, ukec-individuals, jrc-names and nepal-candidates pairs (0 now alike, 0 apart: both spellings of a person move together), CLDR and GND agreement do not move. The committed corpora move 11 names before the rules examples were rewritten: the three royal rows, `King Curtis` (#348's example, fixed), `King Smith, John` and `Mary Jane King.` (1.4.0's readings), a maiden clause, and four that only lose H4's `title-or-name`, the word no longer being title vocabulary (`Dr. King`, `Dr King Jr`, `Dr. King MD`; `Smith and King` reports `given-or-family` instead).
   Recompute: `uv run python tools/differential/local_agreement.py psc-individuals --base <checkout of this commit's parent>`, and `uv run python tools/differential/snapshot.py --local fec-individuals --base <the same checkout>` (and `ctgov-officials`).
+- **2026-10-26 #752, phase 2j, `sultana` and `sultan` (Derek) — THE FIFTH AND SIXTH TITLE BATCHES, COMBINED.** The batches decisions/vocabulary-model's 2026-10-24 #752 (Derek) entry put fifth and sixth; measured apart and together, `sultana` costing nothing and `sultan` only the royal class accepted for `king` (the entry above), Derek combined them on 2026-10-26. Each gains a dated `given` reading (`sultan`'s on its tr.toml entry, the other two files' readings deriving the same marker) and is a title only inside a title phrase; no listed phrase holds either, so nothing is reported. `Sultana Begum`, `Mrs Sultana Begum`, `Sultan Khan`, `Mr Sultan Khan`, `Khan, Sultan` and `Sultan Bin Zayed` read the given name, where 1.4.0 through 2.6.0 read the title (and `Mrs Sultana`, `Mr Sultan`). A style keeps the title (`His Majesty Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah`), as does `of` (`Sultan of Brunei`), and the Ottoman writing after the name was already a name word (`Hurrem Sultan`). The other sites read as for `king`.
+  - THE COUNTS, recorded on the words (`uv run python tools/name_usage.py Sultana Sultan`, 2026-10-26): `sultana` given US SSA 275 births, Wikidata 19 (Bangladesh 5), nam_dict band 3 in Romania and Arabia/Persia, family Census 3,471, Wikidata 34; `sultan` given US SSA 2,396, Wikidata 151 (Turkey 28, Saudi Arabia 13), nam_dict band 7 in Turkey, family Census 3,363, Wikidata 106 (Ottoman Empire 26, the title written after the name).
+  - THE COST, `sultan`'s only: a sultan written with the bare title in front reads it as the given name (`Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah` → given 'Sultan', where 1.4.0 through 2.6.0 read title 'Sultan', given 'Hassanal'; so `Sultan Qaboos bin Said`), the class accepted for `king`; in PSC one filer typed `Sultan` in the title box before a name, the one broken record. Sized afterwards, at the review's prompting, in the news text of jrc-names: 135 persons (266 spellings) open with `Sultan` or `Sultana`, by a reading of each about 40 rulers (mostly Ottoman sultans and today's Gulf and Malay rulers), about 80 people whose given name is Sultan, and 13 mosques and other places, a cost about four times `king`'s 10 there.
+  - FOUND BY THE REVIEW, NOT FIXED HERE: A v1 `remove` OF A WORD 2.6.0 LISTED NOW RAISES. A title that gains a given reading compiles out of `TITLES` (the 2026-10-25 #752, phase 2i entry of decisions/vocabulary-model), so `Constants().titles` no longer holds it and v1's strict `remove` raises `KeyError`: `c.titles.remove('sultan')`, which 2.6.0 accepted (and which then read `Sultan Khan` with first 'Sultan'), raises on this tree, and so does it for every word phase 2j moved out of the titles 2.6.0 listed (`wing`, `mahdi`, `bard`, `buddha`, `siddha`, `gyani`, `king`, `sultana`); phase 2i's own words were never in 2.6.0's titles, so removing them raised before too. The shim is not to raise on a config v1 accepted (AGENTS.md), so this is a defect of the batches, left for its own change before 2.7.0 ships.
+  - NOT REACHED, for `sheikh`'s batch. `sheikh` is a style, so under rules/H9 it partners a contested word behind it: `Sheikh Sultan Khan` keeps title 'Sheikh Sultan', as master reads it and as `Sheikh Dean Smith` reads, where in Gulf names the word is the person's given name.
+  - MEASURED (2026-10-26, against master `6ba78d0d`, py3.11, every local check with `--base`). Both words: PSC (1,039,174 scored) 111 records fixed, 1 broken (the title box above), 6 changed, each still wrong for another reason, mostly a two-word surname box; ctgov-officials 41 moved; fec-individuals 21; tse-donors 1; spelling pairs (mechanisms.md#PAIRED-SPELLINGS-PER-CHANGE) jrc-names 9 persons and nepal-candidates 6 pairs now alike, none apart. `sultana` alone: PSC 28 fixed, none broken, 1 changed (a two-word surname box); ctgov 7, every one a fix, 6 of them `Aa Sultana, CRED` names whose credential master read as the given name (`Nasreen Sultana, MBBS` → given 'Nasreen', family 'Sultana', suffix 'MBBS', reported `suffix-or-name`); FEC 5 (`AA, SULTANA`); tse 1; nepal 1. The committed corpora and CLDR and GND agreement do not move.
+  Recompute: `uv run python tools/differential/local_agreement.py psc-individuals --base <checkout of this commit's parent>`, and `uv run python tools/differential/snapshot.py --local ctgov-officials --base <the same checkout>` (and `fec-individuals`, `tse-donors`).
diff --git a/docs/design/decisions/vocabulary-model.md b/docs/design/decisions/vocabulary-model.md
@@ -218,6 +218,7 @@ Open: #752 (phase 2, derived ambiguity; its sub-phases 2a to 2m, each its own PR
   - `dean`, `justice` and `major` gain an office or military reading beside a dated `given` one; `justice`'s exclusion (#606) is replaced by the reading. The batches of 2j declare the rest.
   Adding the four fields changes `Lexicon`'s pickle layout, as phase 2h did.
 - **2026-10-26 #752, phase 2i (Derek) — `attaches` MAY NAME A TITLE WORD AS WELL AS A KIND, AND `grace` AND `marshal` JOIN THE CONTESTED TITLES.** Amends the `attaches` bullet of the 2026-10-25 #752, phase 2i entry: a kind reaches every word that later joins it, and once `marshal` became a contested military word the military kind made `Sgt Marshal Smith` a title phrase. A list entry that is no kind must be a word with a title reading (a build check, its mutation in tests/v2/test_vocab.py). `major` attaches to `general` and `sergeant` and `sgt` to `major`. `grace` (style) and `marshal` (military, its #606 exclusion replaced) carry dated `given` readings. The measurement and Derek's answers are decisions/H9's entry of this date.
+- **2026-10-26 #752, phase 2j, `sultana` and `sultan` (Derek) — THE FIFTH AND SIXTH TITLE BATCHES, IN ONE PR: both have dated `given` readings**, `sultan`'s on its tr.toml entry, so each is a title only inside a title phrase. `Sultana Begum` and `Sultan Khan` read the given name; a sultan written with the bare title does too (`Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah`), the cost accepted for `king`. Derek combined the two batches on 2026-10-26. The measurement is decisions/H9's entry of this date.
 - **2026-10-26 #752, phase 2j, `king` (Derek) — THE FOURTH TITLE BATCH: `king` has a dated `given` reading**, US SSA 37,890 births and Census rank 34 as a surname, so it is a title only inside a title phrase. `King Curtis` and `Mr King Smith` read given 'King'; a monarch written with the bare title does too (`King Henry`), the cost Derek accepted on 2026-10-26. `pope` replaces `king` as the worked example of a title that is also a surname wherever the rules and tests used it. The measurement is decisions/H9's entry of this date.
 - **2026-10-26 #752, phase 2j, `buddha`, `siddha` and `gyani` (#869) — THE THIRD TITLE BATCH: each has a declared `given` reading**, `siddha`'s and `gyani`'s without a count, which their notes explain: the first halves of Nepali compound given names, which no source outside nepal-candidates counts. `Buddha Bahadur Tamang` reads given 'Buddha', middle 'Bahadur'; `guru` stays a title for a `ne` pack (the 2026-10-24 #752 (Derek) entry). The measurement is decisions/H9's entry of this date.
 - **2026-10-26 #752, phase 2j, `mahdi` and `bard` (#867) — THE SECOND TITLE BATCH: both words have a dated `given` reading.** `Mahdi Karimi`, `Mr Mahdi Karimi`, `Karimi, Mahdi` and `Bard Larsen` read the given name, where 1.4.0 through 2.6.0 read a title; no listed phrase holds either word, so nothing is reported. The measurement is decisions/H9's entry of this date.

diff --git a/docs/design/rules/H9-title-phrase.md b/docs/design/rules/H9-title-phrase.md
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
   "Mr Mahdi Karimi"           →  given="Mahdi"
   "Buddha Bahadur Tamang"     →  given="Buddha"
   "King Curtis"               →  given="King"
+  "Sultana Begum"             →  given="Sultana"
   ```
 - **A modifier in the leading run of titles before the first comma** has its phrase in a head title after it in that run, in `of` after it, or in the object of `of` or `the` there. A modifier outside that run, ending the name or after a comma, is read as any title is, save one that may be a given name, which is read everywhere as it is in that run.
   ```
@@ -119,9 +120,10 @@
   "Gyani Zail Singh"          →  given="Gyani"
   "Lord Buddha Tamang"        →  given="Buddha"
   ```
-- A monarch written with the bare title in front reads it as the given name, a style before it or `of` after it keeping the title; the record data at hand writes the word there as a given name, and only news text writes monarchs that way.
+- A monarch written with the bare title in front reads it as the given name, a style before it or `of` after it keeping the title; the record data at hand writes the word there almost only as a given name, and monarchs that way mostly in news text.
   ```
   "King Henry"                →  given="King"
+  "Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah"   →  given="Sultan"
   "His Majesty King Charles"  →  title="His Majesty King"
   ```
 - Once a partner has made the word a title, a coordinating join behind it takes the next word into the title too.

diff --git a/docs/design/vocabulary-model-rfc.md b/docs/design/vocabulary-model-rfc.md
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ A reading whose writing offers no cue is one the gate could only guess, so it is
 
 The front of a name has no words-to-spare cue: a title addresses the name after it. What it has is the contested-head rule. **A title word that also has a name reading is a title only inside a title phrase:**
 
-- **The title before it is not a partner.** A contested word after another title is the given name (`Mr Sultan Khan`, `Ms Princess Ada Obi`, #853), unless that title is its partner; today `Mr Sultan Khan` reads title `Mr Sultan`.
+- **The title before it is not a partner.** A contested word after another title is the given name (`Mr Sultan Khan`, `Ms Princess Ada Obi`, #853), unless that title is its partner; `Mr Sultan Khan` read title `Mr Sultan` until phase 2j gave `sultan` its given reading.
 - **Its partner** is a modifier or a style before it (`Her Royal Highness Princess Anne`), `of` after it (`Dean of Students`), or a head title after it that the word `attaches` to (`Major General`). A salutation is never a partner (`SMITH, DEAN MR.` is a given name and a salutation).
 - **Modifiers** (decision 10, unparked) are titles only beside a head title, at the head of the name only, never in a comma part, where a lone title word is the person's role; a modifier that is also a given name (`wing`, phase 2j) is read by that test in every part.
 

diff --git a/docs/release_log.rst b/docs/release_log.rst
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ Release Log
     - **Read the Brazilian agnomens and French fils as suffixes where the name has a word to spare.** ``Pedro Alves Filho`` and ``Alexandre Dumas fils`` give last ``Alves`` and ``Dumas``, suffix ``Filho`` and ``fils``, where 1.4.0 through 2.6.0 gave middle ``Alves`` and ``Dumas``, last ``Filho`` and ``fils``; ``Neto``, ``Netto``, ``Sobrinho`` and the feminines ``Filha``, ``Neta``, ``Sobrinha`` read the same way. Each is a surname too, so a name of two words keeps it as the last name (``Ana Neto``, ``PEDRO FILHO``) and ``Fils`` in Title case in a mixed-case name stays the last name (``Marie Fils``), the parse reports the choice as a ``suffix-or-name`` ambiguity. ``Lexicon.suffix_words_ambiguous`` lists the words and ``Lexicon.agnomens`` the ones read by the word count alone. :issue:`843`, :issue:`752`
     - **Read a credential that is also a name, written in capitals in a mixed-case name, as settled.** ``John Smith MA`` reports no ``suffix-or-name`` ambiguity, where 2.0.0 through 2.6.0 reported one, and ``Smith, John MA Jones`` gives suffix ``MA Jones``, where 2.0.0 through 2.6.0 gave middle ``MA Jones`` and 1.4.0 middle ``Jones``, suffix ``MA``. A name written in one case still reports (``JOHN SMITH MA``), and with no comma a name word behind the capitals keeps them a name word, since they may be initials (``Maria Ana MA Silva`` keeps last ``Silva``). :issue:`785`, :issue:`752`
     - **Read a title that is also a given name as a title only inside a title phrase.** ``Chief Justice John Roberts`` gives title ``Chief Justice``, first ``John``, where 1.4.0 through 2.6.0 gave title ``Chief``, first ``Justice``; ``Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery``, ``Dean of Students Jane Smith`` and ``Major General John Smith`` give the phrase as the title too. Outside a phrase the word is still a name, so ``Dean Smith`` and ``Grace Smith`` give first ``Dean`` and ``Grace``; ``Dean Smith`` now reports a ``title-or-name`` ambiguity unless a comma has marked the given name (``Smith, Dean``), while ``Grace``, a title only in a phrase such as ``His Grace``, reports nothing. Listing the word as a title still makes it one everywhere (``Lexicon.default().add(titles={"dean"})``). :issue:`752`, :issue:`853`
+    - **Fix the given names Sultan and Sultana reading as titles.** ``Sultan Khan`` and ``Sultana Begum`` give first ``Sultan`` and ``Sultana``, where 1.4.0 through 2.6.0 gave title ``Sultan`` and ``Sultana`` with no first name; ``Mr Sultan Khan`` and ``Khan, Sultan`` read the same. A sultan written with the bare title reads it as a first name too (``Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah`` gives first ``Sultan``), where a style keeps it (``His Majesty Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah``). :issue:`752`, :issue:`853`
     - **Fix the given name King reading as a title.** ``King Curtis`` and ``Mr King Smith`` give first ``King``, where 1.4.0 through 2.6.0 gave title ``King`` and ``Mr King``; ``SMITH, KING`` reads the same. A monarch written with the bare title reads it as a first name too (``King Henry`` gives first ``King``, last ``Henry``), where a style keeps it (``His Majesty King Henry``). :issue:`752`, :issue:`348`
     - **Fix the Nepali given names Buddha, Siddha and Gyani reading as titles.** ``Buddha Bahadur Tamang`` and ``Gyani Maya Gurung`` give first ``Buddha`` and ``Gyani``, middle ``Bahadur`` and ``Maya``, where 1.4.0 through 2.6.0 gave title ``Buddha`` and ``Gyani``, first ``Bahadur`` and ``Maya``; ``Siddha Raj Joshi`` and ``Tamang, Buddha Bahadur`` read the same. ``Guru`` is still a title. The Sikh title written ``Gyani`` reads as a given name too (``Gyani Zail Singh``); its usual spelling ``Giani`` is still a title. :issue:`869`, :issue:`752`
     - **Fix the given names Mahdi and Bard reading as titles.** ``Mahdi Karimi`` and ``Bard Larsen`` give first ``Mahdi`` and ``Bard``, where 1.4.0 through 2.6.0 gave title ``Mahdi`` and ``Bard`` with no first name; ``Mr Mahdi Karimi`` and ``Karimi, Mahdi`` read the same. Inside a title phrase either is still a title (``Mahdi of Sudan``), but the epithet with its article is not: ``Muhammad Ahmad, the Mahdi`` gives first ``the Mahdi``, last ``Muhammad Ahmad``, where 1.4.0 through 2.6.0 gave title ``the Mahdi``. :issue:`867`, :issue:`752`

diff --git a/nameparser/config/_compiled.py b/nameparser/config/_compiled.py
@@ -719,8 +719,6 @@
     'subaltern',
     'subedar',
     'suffragist',
-    'sultan',
-    'sultana',
     'superior',
     'supreme',
     'surgeon',
@@ -971,6 +969,8 @@
     'major',
     'marshal',
     'siddha',
+    'sultan',
+    'sultana',
     'wing',
 })
 

diff --git a/nameparser/vocab/ar.toml b/nameparser/vocab/ar.toml
@@ -124,7 +124,9 @@ nobility = {}
 
 [[word]]
 text = "sultana"
-nobility = { gender = "f" }
+nobility = { gender = "f", issue = 752, decided = 2026-10-26, note = "a title only inside a title phrase, its given reading the clash (rules/H9): 'Sultana Begum' reads the given name, unreported, since no listed phrase holds it" }
+given = { us_ssa = 275, wikidata = 19, as_of = 2026-10-26, note = "US SSA: female births; Wikidata is a lower bound (Bangladesh 5); nam_dict band 3 in Romania and Arabia/Persia" }
+family = { us_census_2010 = 3471, wikidata = 34, as_of = 2026-10-26 }
 
 [[word]]
 text = "أمير"

diff --git a/nameparser/vocab/tr.toml b/nameparser/vocab/tr.toml
@@ -11,7 +11,9 @@ style = { expands = "the Ottoman efendi, in its conventional Latin spelling" }
 
 [[word]]
 text = "sultan"
-nobility = { note = "no gender: Ottoman usage gave it to imperial women too, written after the name (Hürrem Sultan)" }
+nobility = { note = "no gender: Ottoman usage gave it to imperial women too, written after the name (Hürrem Sultan)", issue = 752, decided = 2026-10-26 }
+given = { us_ssa = 2396, wikidata = 151, as_of = 2026-10-26, note = "US SSA: male births; Wikidata is a lower bound (Turkey 28, Saudi Arabia 13); nam_dict band 7 in Turkey, 5 in Central Asia; a title only inside a title phrase (rules/H9): 'Sultan Khan' and 'Mr Sultan Khan' read the given name, unreported" }
+family = { us_census_2010 = 3363, wikidata = 106, as_of = 2026-10-26, note = "Wikidata: Ottoman Empire 26, the title written after the name, which reads as a name word" }
 
 [[word]]
 text = "baba"