diff --git a/src/lib/heuristics/extract-fields.test.ts b/src/lib/heuristics/extract-fields.test.ts
index 6d190169..da0290a1 100644
--- a/src/lib/heuristics/extract-fields.test.ts
+++ b/src/lib/heuristics/extract-fields.test.ts
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 // Copyright 2026 The resumelint Authors
 
 import { describe, it, expect } from "vitest";
-import { extractContact } from "./extract-fields.ts";
+import { extractContact, extractName } from "./extract-fields.ts";
 import { groupIntoLines, splitIntoSections, findSection } from "./sections.ts";
 import { US_LOCATION_RE } from "./regex.ts";
 import type { PdfLinkAnnotation } from "./types.ts";
@@ -167,6 +167,84 @@ describe("extractContact — location no longer falls back to document-wide scan
   });
 });
 
+describe("extractName — document-title boilerplate rejection (issue #10)", () => {
+  it("picks the real name when a 'Functional Resume Sample' header is above it", () => {
+    // Mode 1 of issue #10: a public Microsoft-style sample template renders
+    // the doc title in the largest font on the first profile line, which the
+    // original selector scored at 1.0 — choosing the boilerplate as the name.
+    const { profile } = buildContext([
+      { text: "Functional Resume Sample", fontSize: 22 },
+      { text: "Jane Smith", fontSize: 14 },
+      { text: "jane.smith@example.com · (555) 010-0123", fontSize: 10 },
+      { text: "" },
+      { text: "EXPERIENCE", fontSize: 13 },
+    ]);
+    const result = extractName(profile);
+    expect(result.value).toBe("Jane Smith");
+    expect(result.confidence).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+  });
+
+  it("rejects 'Curriculum Vitae' as a name candidate", () => {
+    const { profile } = buildContext([
+      { text: "Curriculum Vitae", fontSize: 22 },
+      { text: "Jane Smith", fontSize: 14 },
+      { text: "jane.smith@example.com", fontSize: 10 },
+    ]);
+    expect(extractName(profile).value).toBe("Jane Smith");
+  });
+
+  it("rejects 'Resume Sample' as a name candidate (all tokens are boilerplate)", () => {
+    const { profile } = buildContext([
+      { text: "Resume Sample", fontSize: 22 },
+      { text: "Jane Smith", fontSize: 14 },
+      { text: "jane.smith@example.com", fontSize: 10 },
+    ]);
+    expect(extractName(profile).value).toBe("Jane Smith");
+  });
+
+  it("still picks 'Jane Smith Resume' (only 1 of 3 tokens is boilerplate)", () => {
+    // Conservative filter — a real name with the word "Resume" appended must
+    // still pass. Only ≥60% boilerplate triggers rejection.
+    const { profile } = buildContext([
+      { text: "Jane Smith Resume", fontSize: 18 },
+      { text: "jane.smith@example.com", fontSize: 10 },
+    ]);
+    expect(extractName(profile).value).toBe("Jane Smith Resume");
+  });
+
+  it("no regression: still picks a top-line name when no boilerplate is present", () => {
+    const { profile } = buildContext([
+      { text: "Mohin Patel", fontSize: 18 },
+      { text: "mohinp@uw.edu | 973-452-3653", fontSize: 10 },
+      { text: "" },
+      { text: "EDUCATION", fontSize: 13 },
+    ]);
+    const result = extractName(profile);
+    expect(result.value).toBe("Mohin Patel");
+    expect(result.confidence).toBeGreaterThan(0.8);
+  });
+
+  it("boilerplate-rejected name still picks up the contact-cluster proximity bonus on the runner-up", () => {
+    // Regression on the proximity signal itself: when the obvious first-line
+    // candidate is rejected as boilerplate, the proximity bonus must still
+    // fire for the surviving candidate. Otherwise we'd lose a confidence
+    // signal that's most useful precisely in the issue-10 scenario.
+    const { profile } = buildContext([
+      { text: "Functional Resume Sample", fontSize: 22 },
+      { text: "Jane Smith", fontSize: 14 },
+      { text: "jane.smith@example.com", fontSize: 10 },
+    ]);
+    const result = extractName(profile);
+    expect(result.value).toBe("Jane Smith");
+    // Must clear ANON_CONTACT_CONFIDENCE_FLOOR (0.5) in score.ts —
+    // otherwise completeness scoring marks the (correctly-detected) name as
+    // "missing", which is mode 2 of issue #10 manifesting inside the fix
+    // for mode 1. Guarded so a future tuning regression on this threshold
+    // boundary fails loudly.
+    expect(result.confidence).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(0.5);
+  });
+});
+
 describe("US_LOCATION_RE — preposition-phrase city rejection", () => {
   it("does not eat lowercase prepositions like 'and' / 'of' inside the city capture", () => {
     // Pre-fix the regex captured "CS and Engineering Seattle" (26 chars
diff --git a/src/lib/heuristics/extract-fields.ts b/src/lib/heuristics/extract-fields.ts
index 9827695b..a4a15161 100644
--- a/src/lib/heuristics/extract-fields.ts
+++ b/src/lib/heuristics/extract-fields.ts
@@ -64,6 +64,64 @@ function allMatches(re: RegExp, text: string): string[] {
 
 // ── Name ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 
+/**
+ * Words that signal "this is a resume document title, not the candidate's name"
+ * — e.g. "Functional Resume Sample", "Chronological CV Template". Conservative:
+ * "Jane Smith Resume" still passes because only one of three words is boilerplate.
+ * See `looksLikeDocTitleBoilerplate` below for the rule.
+ */
+const NAME_BOILERPLATE_WORDS = new Set([
+  "resume",
+  "résumé",
+  "cv",
+  "curriculum",
+  "vitae",
+  "sample",
+  "template",
+  "example",
+  "draft",
+  "chronological",
+  "functional",
+  "combination",
+  "profile",
+  "biography",
+]);
+
+/**
+ * True when the line is mostly resume-document-title boilerplate rather than
+ * a person's name. Requires *all* tokens to be boilerplate (or ≥2 boilerplate
+ * tokens out of ≤3 total). Tuned so "Jane Smith" passes and "Resume" / "CV
+ * Sample" / "Functional Resume Sample" / "Curriculum Vitae" all reject.
+ */
+function looksLikeDocTitleBoilerplate(words: string[]): boolean {
+  const lowered = words.map((w) => w.toLowerCase().replace(/[^a-z]/g, ""));
+  const hits = lowered.filter((w) => NAME_BOILERPLATE_WORDS.has(w)).length;
+  if (hits === 0) return false;
+  if (hits === words.length) return true;
+  return words.length <= 3 && hits >= 2;
+}
+
+/** y-position of the first line in `lines` matching any of the contact regexes,
+ *  or undefined if no contact-bearing line is found. Used as a soft signal —
+ *  candidate names close to this y get a small bonus. */
+function findContactClusterY(lines: PdfLine[]): number | undefined {
+  for (const line of lines) {
+    if (
+      EMAIL_RE.test(line.text) ||
+      PHONE_RE.test(line.text) ||
+      LINKEDIN_RE.test(line.text)
+    ) {
+      // Reset lastIndex defensively; the constants are recompiled per call
+      // elsewhere in the file but test() with `g` flag mutates state.
+      EMAIL_RE.lastIndex = 0;
+      PHONE_RE.lastIndex = 0;
+      LINKEDIN_RE.lastIndex = 0;
+      return line.y;
+    }
+  }
+  return undefined;
+}
+
 /**
  * Resume names almost always appear at the very top, in the largest font, with
  * 2–4 words that are all letters (plus maybe a period or hyphen). Score:
@@ -71,6 +129,10 @@ function allMatches(re: RegExp, text: string): string[] {
  *   +0.3 font size larger than the rest of profile
  *   +0.2 all-caps OR title-case
  *   +0.1 2–4 words, 2–40 chars, no digits/emails
+ *   +0.15 within ~80pt of the email/phone/linkedin line (contact-cluster proximity)
+ *
+ * Hard rejection: lines that are mostly resume-document-title boilerplate
+ * ("Functional Resume Sample", "Curriculum Vitae", etc.) — see issue #10.
  */
 export function extractName(
   profile: PdfSection,
@@ -80,8 +142,17 @@ export function extractName(
   const maxFontSize = Math.max(...profile.lines.map((l) => l.maxFontSize));
   const averageFontSize =
     profile.lines.reduce((s, l) => s + l.maxFontSize, 0) / profile.lines.length;
+  const contactY = findContactClusterY(profile.lines);
 
   let best: { line: PdfLine; score: number } | null = null;
+  // Index of the first eligible candidate after rejections. When the literal
+  // first line is rejected as boilerplate (e.g. "Functional Resume Sample"),
+  // the next surviving line is effectively the header — it inherits the
+  // first-line bonus, which also keeps confidence above the scorer's
+  // contact-field floor (0.5). Without this, fixing the wrong-name pick
+  // would dial confidence down enough to mark the (correct) name as
+  // "missing" in completeness scoring.
+  let firstEligibleIdx: number | null = null;
 
   for (let i = 0; i < Math.min(profile.lines.length, 5); i++) {
     const line = profile.lines[i];
@@ -94,14 +165,20 @@ export function extractName(
     const letterRatio =
       text.replace(/[^A-Za-z]/g, "").length / Math.max(text.length, 1);
     if (letterRatio < 0.7) continue;
+    if (looksLikeDocTitleBoilerplate(words)) continue;
+
+    if (firstEligibleIdx === null) firstEligibleIdx = i;
 
     let score = 0;
-    if (i === 0) score += 0.4;
+    if (i === firstEligibleIdx) score += 0.4;
     if (line.maxFontSize >= maxFontSize - 0.5) score += 0.3;
     if (line.maxFontSize > averageFontSize + 1) score += 0.1;
     const titleCase = words.every((w) => /^[A-Z][a-zA-Z.\-']*$/.test(w));
     if (line.allCaps || titleCase) score += 0.2;
     if (words.length >= 2 && words.length <= 4) score += 0.1;
+    if (contactY !== undefined && Math.abs(line.y - contactY) < 80) {
+      score += 0.15;
+    }
 
     if (!best || score > best.score) best = { line, score };
   }
diff --git a/tests/fixtures/pdfs/latex/header-as-name-functional-resume.expected.json b/tests/fixtures/pdfs/latex/header-as-name-functional-resume.expected.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..647d4137
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/fixtures/pdfs/latex/header-as-name-functional-resume.expected.json
@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+{
+  "schemaVersion": 1,
+  "cascade": {
+    "confidence": 0.87,
+    "triggers": [],
+    "tiers": [
+      "t0_layout",
+      "t1_openresume"
+    ],
+    "suggestedEscalation": "none",
+    "fieldsPopulated": [
+      "current_company",
+      "current_title",
+      "education",
+      "email",
+      "experience",
+      "family_name",
+      "full_name",
+      "given_name",
+      "linkedin_url",
+      "location",
+      "phone",
+      "summary",
+      "website_url"
+    ],
+    "skillsCount": 0,
+    "experienceCount": 2,
+    "educationCount": 1,
+    "rawTextCharCount": 762,
+    "pageCount": 1,
+    "linkAnnotationCount": 0,
+    "hasMarkdown": true,
+    "sectionSource": "regex"
+  },
+  "score": {
+    "overall": 78,
+    "preLayoutOverall": 78,
+    "specificity": {
+      "score": 27,
+      "max": 40,
+      "gradable": true,
+      "metricBullets": 2,
+      "totalBullets": 5
+    },
+    "structure": {
+      "score": 24,
+      "max": 30,
+      "gradable": true,
+      "goodBullets": 4,
+      "totalBullets": 5
+    },
+    "completeness": {
+      "score": 27,
+      "max": 30,
+      "gradable": true,
+      "missing": [
+        "skills"
+      ]
+    },
+    "layout": {
+      "triggers": [],
+      "multiplier": 1,
+      "scanned": false
+    },
+    "bulletCount": 5,
+    "algoVersion": "1.0"
+  }
+}
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