diff --git a/docs/design/rules/P9-particle-that-is-also-a-suffix-word-beside-a-family-comma.md b/docs/design/rules/P9-particle-that-is-also-a-suffix-word-beside-a-family-comma.md
index a16c0d4cf..52512de41 100644
--- a/docs/design/rules/P9-particle-that-is-also-a-suffix-word-beside-a-family-comma.md
+++ b/docs/design/rules/P9-particle-that-is-also-a-suffix-word-beside-a-family-comma.md
@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@
   ```
 - **A lone letter behind it reads as it does in the same part without the particle**: a capital is a name word ('SMITH VD V, JOHN' as 'SMITH V, JOHN'), a lowercase letter in a name of mixed case the numeral ('Smith vd v, John' as 'Smith v, John'), and a name written in one case reads as its capitals (T4).
   ```
-  "SMITH VD V, JOHN"          →  family="SMITH VD V"  deviates: #1080 (today: family="SMITH VD")
-  "smith vd v, john"          →  family="smith vd v"  deviates: #1080 (today: family="smith vd")
+  "SMITH VD V, JOHN"          →  family="SMITH VD V"
+  "smith vd v, john"          →  family="smith vd v"
   ```
 - **In the part after a family comma**, where P6 attaches a particle ending the name to the family, a lone word of both the particle and the UNAMBIGUOUS suffix vocabulary standing INSIDE a run read as post-nominals — one in front of it and another behind, a credential or a generation, whatever made each one, and a title between it and the one in front transparent (H5) — is not the tussenvoegsel: that stands right behind the given name, so a post-nominal between them says the word is not one. It does not end the name, and keeps the post-nominal reading in any case, reported as S4's credential fork.
   ```
diff --git a/docs/release_log.rst b/docs/release_log.rst
index 0f0383fd4..8eda4712b 100644
--- a/docs/release_log.rst
+++ b/docs/release_log.rst
@@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ Release Log
     - **Fix the surname Mba read as the MBA degree.** ``parse("Chinedu Mba")`` gives family ``Mba``, as 1.4.0 did, where 2.0.0 through 2.8.1 gave suffix ``Mba`` and no family. ``John Smith, MBA`` and ``John Smith MBA`` still read the degree; where a name word can stand, it reads as the name, as ``MA`` does (``Smith, MBA Jane`` gives given ``MBA``), and brackets configured for maiden names read ``(MBA)`` as the maiden name. :issue:`1005`
     - **Fix the Filipino particle Delos, de los written as one word, reading as a middle name.** ``parse("Juan Delos Reyes")`` gives family ``Delos Reyes``, as ``Juan Dela Cruz`` gives ``Dela Cruz``, where 1.4.0 through 2.8.1 gave middle ``Delos``, family ``Reyes``. ``Delos`` is a given name too, so ``Delos Wheeler`` still gives given ``Delos``, now reporting particle-or-given. Case repair keeps both capitalized: ``parse("JUAN DELA CRUZ").capitalized()`` gives ``Juan Dela Cruz``, where 1.4.0 through 2.8.1 gave ``Juan dela Cruz``. :issue:`1037`
     - **Fix a family-comma name losing the given name Junior to the suffix.** ``parse("Silva, Junior Carlos")`` gives given ``Junior``, middle ``Carlos``, as 2.2.0 and 2.3.0 did, where 2.4.0 through 2.8.1 gave suffix ``Junior Carlos`` and no given name. Junior and Júnior are given names too, so a name with no word to spare keeps one as the name (``Kofi Junior`` gives family ``Junior``), while ``John Smith Junior`` still gives suffix ``Junior``. A generation word you give a name reading with ``Lexicon.add`` is weighed by the count alone, as ``Junior`` is; add it with ``title_case_is_name=True`` to have Title case read as the name, as ``fils`` does. :issue:`1039`
+    - **Read a lone letter behind a particle before a family comma as the comma-less name reads it.** ``parse("SMITH VD V, JOHN")`` gives family ``SMITH VD V``, where 2.7.0 and 2.8.0 gave family ``SMITH VD`` and suffix ``V``: a particle is no word to spare, so the letter counts the name words in front of it alone. ``SMITH VD VI, JOHN`` keeps suffix ``VI`` and ``SMITH VD, JOHN`` suffix ``VD``. :issue:`1080`
 
 * 2.8.2 - November 4, 2026
 
diff --git a/nameparser/_pipeline/_assign.py b/nameparser/_pipeline/_assign.py
index 25653a58a..d292cff06 100644
--- a/nameparser/_pipeline/_assign.py
+++ b/nameparser/_pipeline/_assign.py
@@ -778,8 +778,8 @@ def as_a_name(i: int) -> PendingReading:
 def _family_part_numeral(word: WorkToken, preceding: str, names: int,
                          one_case: bool | None) -> Role | None:
     """The role of a roman numeral ending the family part before a
-    family comma, behind `names` pieces of that part, as the comma-less
-    name reads one ending it (rules/S10), or None where the numeral's
+    family comma, behind `names` name words of that part, as the
+    comma-less name reads one ending it (rules/S10), or None where the numeral's
     predicate reads no numeral there (an initial in front, a letter with
     its period): the suffix where it reads as the generation, a
     one-letter numeral needing two name words in front of it, and the
@@ -1939,9 +1939,15 @@ def as_a_middle(m: int, token: WorkToken) -> PendingReading:
                     and all(is_suffix_piece(fam_pieces[j], fam_tags[j],
                                             tokens)
                             for j in range(k + 1, len(fam_pieces)))
+                    # rules/P9, #1080: the numeral is read by the name
+                    # words in front of it, a particle none to spare
+                    # ('SMITH VD V, JOHN' as 'SMITH V, JOHN' reads)
                     and (numeral := _family_part_numeral(
                         word, tokens[fam_pieces[k - 1][0]].text,
-                        k - lead, state.one_case)) is not None):
+                        1 + sum(1 for j in range(lead + 1, k)
+                                if "particle"
+                                not in tokens[fam_pieces[j][0]].tags),
+                        state.one_case)) is not None):
                 _set_roles(tokens, piece, numeral)
                 # reported where taken: a name word here is the family
                 # name the comma has just named, which nobody misreads
diff --git a/tests/v2/cases.py b/tests/v2/cases.py
index 362ae3953..3ff8a7919 100644
--- a/tests/v2/cases.py
+++ b/tests/v2/cases.py
@@ -2534,6 +2534,30 @@ def _check_cjk_shape_purity(self) -> None:
                "mixed-case row above does. 2.2.0 and 2.3.0 read family "
                "'SMITH MA', suffix 'VD'; 2.0.0 and 2.1.0 read as here; "
                "1.4.0 last 'SMITH', suffix 'VD, MA'"),
+    Case("a_lone_letter_behind_a_particle_before_a_comma_is_the_name_word",
+         "SMITH VD V, JOHN",
+         {"given": "JOHN", "family": "SMITH VD V"},
+         classification="fix(#1080)",
+         notes="P9: a lone letter behind a particle reads as it does in "
+               "the same part without one, so the particle is no word to "
+               "spare and 'V' is a name word. 2.7.0 and 2.8.0 read family "
+               "'SMITH VD', suffix 'V'; 2.6.0 read as here"),
+    Case("a_lone_letter_behind_a_plain_particle_before_a_comma_is_the_name_word",
+         "SMITH VAN V, JOHN",
+         {"given": "JOHN", "family": "SMITH VAN V"},
+         classification="fix(#1080)",
+         notes="#1080's table: the count leaves out every particle, not "
+               "only the word that is suffix vocabulary too, so 'VAN' is "
+               "no word to spare. 2.7.0 and 2.8.0 read family 'SMITH "
+               "VAN', suffix 'V'; 2.6.0 read as here"),
+    Case("a_lone_letter_behind_a_particle_run_before_a_comma_is_the_name_word",
+         "Smith van der V, John",
+         {"given": "John", "family": "Smith van der V"},
+         classification="fix(#1080)",
+         notes="#1080's table: a run is no word to spare either -- its "
+               "length is why the count drops the whole run and not one "
+               "particle. 2.7.0 and 2.8.0 read family 'Smith van der', "
+               "suffix 'V'; 2.6.0 read as here"),
     Case("a_comma_before_no_name_word_keeps_the_positional_read",
          "Berg de MA, Prof.",
          {"title": "Prof.", "given": "Berg", "family": "de",
diff --git a/tools/differential/snapshot.jsonl b/tools/differential/snapshot.jsonl
index edcca0cbc..dcd52f728 100644
--- a/tools/differential/snapshot.jsonl
+++ b/tools/differential/snapshot.jsonl
@@ -3324,7 +3324,7 @@
 {"name": "SEÁN Ó MURCHÚ", "given": "SEÁN", "family": "Ó MURCHÚ", "initials": "S. M.", "capitalized": "Seán Ó Murchú"}
 {"name": "SIG.RA MARIA ROSSI", "title": "SIG.RA", "given": "MARIA", "family": "ROSSI", "initials": "M. R.", "capitalized": "Sig.ra Maria Rossi"}
 {"name": "SMITH VD MA, JOHN", "given": "JOHN", "family": "SMITH VD MA", "initials": "J. S. M.", "capitalized": "John Smith vd Ma"}
-{"name": "SMITH VD V, JOHN", "given": "JOHN", "family": "SMITH VD", "suffix": "V", "ambiguities": ["SUFFIX_OR_NAME"], "alternatives": ["SUFFIX_OR_NAME: initial as family (shape)"], "initials": "J. S.", "capitalized": "John Smith vd V", "generation": "V"}
+{"name": "SMITH VD V, JOHN", "given": "JOHN", "family": "SMITH VD V", "initials": "J. S. V.", "capitalized": "John Smith vd V"}
 {"name": "SMITH VD, JOHN", "given": "JOHN", "family": "SMITH", "suffix": "VD", "initials": "J. S.", "capitalized": "John Smith VD"}
 {"name": "SMITH, DEAN MR.", "title": "MR.", "given": "DEAN", "family": "SMITH", "initials": "D. S.", "capitalized": "Mr. Dean Smith"}
 {"name": "SMITH, JOHN B. MAJ.", "title": "MAJ.", "given": "JOHN", "middle": "B.", "family": "SMITH", "initials": "J. B. S.", "capitalized": "Maj. John B. Smith"}
@@ -4358,7 +4358,7 @@
 {"name": "scott e. werner", "given": "scott", "middle": "e.", "family": "werner", "initials": "s. e. w.", "capitalized": "Scott E. Werner"}
 {"name": "scott l. werner", "given": "scott", "middle": "l.", "family": "werner", "initials": "s. l. w.", "capitalized": "Scott L. Werner"}
 {"name": "señora María García", "title": "señora", "given": "María", "family": "García", "initials": "M. G.", "capitalized_force": "Señora María García"}
-{"name": "smith vd v, john", "given": "john", "family": "smith vd", "suffix": "v", "ambiguities": ["SUFFIX_OR_NAME"], "alternatives": ["SUFFIX_OR_NAME: initial as family (shape)"], "initials": "j. s.", "capitalized": "John Smith vd V", "generation": "v"}
+{"name": "smith vd v, john", "given": "john", "family": "smith vd v", "initials": "j. s. v.", "capitalized": "John Smith vd V"}
 {"name": "smith, de ma", "family": "smith de ma", "ambiguities": ["SUFFIX_OR_NAME"], "alternatives": ["SUFFIX_OR_NAME: credential as suffix (vocabulary)"], "initials": "s. m.", "capitalized": "Smith de Ma"}
 {"name": "smith, j y lopez", "given": "j", "middle": "y lopez", "family": "smith", "initials": "j. l. s.", "capitalized": "J y Lopez Smith"}
 {"name": "smith, john e phd", "given": "john", "middle": "e", "family": "smith", "suffix": "phd", "initials": "j. e. s.", "capitalized": "John E Smith PhD"}