diff --git a/htmlreport/cppcheck-htmlreport b/htmlreport/cppcheck-htmlreport
index 40d5a4a83..a8ce04904 100755
--- a/htmlreport/cppcheck-htmlreport
+++ b/htmlreport/cppcheck-htmlreport
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ HTML_HEAD = """
 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
 <html>
   <head>
-    <title>CppCheck - Html report</title>
+    <title>CppCheck - Html report - %s</title>
     <link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
     <style type="text/css">
 %s
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ HTML_HEAD = """
     </div>
     <div id="page">
       <div id="header">
-        <h1>CppCheck report</h1>
+        <h1>CppCheck report - %s</h1>
       </div>
       <div id="menu">
         <a href="index.html">Defect list</a>
@@ -195,6 +195,7 @@ class CppCheckHandler(XmlContentHandler):
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     # Configure all the options this little utility is using.
     parser = optparse.OptionParser()
+    parser.add_option("--title", dest="title", help="The title of the project.", default="[project name]")
     parser.add_option("--file", dest="file", help="The cppcheck xml output file to read defects from. Default is reading from stdin.")
     parser.add_option("--report-dir", dest="report_dir", help="The directory where the html report content is written.")
     parser.add_option("--source-dir", dest="source_dir", help="Base directory where source code files can be found.")
@@ -265,7 +266,7 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
         htmlFormatter = AnnotateCodeFormatter(linenos=True, style='colorful', hl_lines=lines, lineanchors="line")
         htmlFormatter.errors = errors
         stream = file(os.path.join(options.report_dir, htmlfile), "w")
-        stream.write(HTML_HEAD % htmlFormatter.get_style_defs(".highlight"))
+        stream.write(HTML_HEAD % (options.title, htmlFormatter.get_style_defs(".highlight"), options.title))
         stream.write(highlight(content, guess_lexer_for_filename(source_file, ""), htmlFormatter))
         stream.write(HTML_FOOTER)
         stream.close()
@@ -276,7 +277,7 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
     # all the errors created.
     print("Creating index.html")
     stream = file(os.path.join(options.report_dir, "index.html"), "w")
-    stream.write(HTML_HEAD % "")
+    stream.write(HTML_HEAD % (options.title, "", options.title))
     stream.write("<table>")
     stream.write("<tr><th>Line</th><th>Id</th><th>Severity</th><th>Message</th></tr>")
     for filename, data in files.iteritems():
