There has been, and may continue to be in some places: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_%28form_of_address%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_%28form_o

There has been, and may continue to be in some places: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_%28form_of_address%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_%28form_of_address%29 I recall seeing a flight reservation form on a British Airways site that had a pulldown menu for either titles or forms of address that included "Lord" and various others. To a US American it was slightly surprising, but to a native Brit it would probably seem quite natural. (Of course, what airline would pass up a chance to bring back distinctions of class?) I see the problem that the original post describes as a "value and a half" issue - the client and programmer are trying to extrapolate values for several ranges from the variable they have jammed multiple values into: gender, marital status, title, and form of address. Even if all your users are from one culture, you're going to have unexpected corner cases - these pages should suggest some: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/ http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-b... http://www.cscyphers.com/blog/2012/06/28/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-gender/ http://www.cscyphers.com/blog/2012/06/28/falsehoods-programm...