diff --git a/doc/api/process.md b/doc/api/process.md
index 61ea3c673e5f19..6319270ef0b7a4 100644
--- a/doc/api/process.md
+++ b/doc/api/process.md
@@ -4308,6 +4308,32 @@ Assigning a value to `process.title` might not result in an accurate label
 within process manager applications such as macOS Activity Monitor or Windows
 Services Manager.
 
+As an alternative to direct assignment, use [`process.setTitle()`][].
+
+## `process.setTitle(title)`
+
+<!-- YAML
+added: REPLACEME
+-->
+
+* `title` {string}
+
+Sets the process title. This is equivalent to assigning a string to
+[`process.title`][]. See [`process.title`][] for restrictions and platform
+limitations.
+
+```mjs
+import { setTitle } from 'node:process';
+
+setTitle('my-service');
+```
+
+```cjs
+const { setTitle } = require('node:process');
+
+setTitle('my-service');
+```
+
 ## `process.traceDeprecation`
 
 <!-- YAML
@@ -4626,7 +4652,9 @@ cases:
 [`process.hrtime()`]: #processhrtimetime
 [`process.hrtime.bigint()`]: #processhrtimebigint
 [`process.kill()`]: #processkillpid-signal
+[`process.setTitle()`]: #processsettitletitle
 [`process.setUncaughtExceptionCaptureCallback()`]: #processsetuncaughtexceptioncapturecallbackfn
+[`process.title`]: #processtitle
 [`promise.catch()`]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Promise/catch
 [`queueMicrotask()`]: globals.md#queuemicrotaskcallback
 [`readable.read()`]: stream.md#readablereadsize
diff --git a/lib/internal/bootstrap/switches/does_not_own_process_state.js b/lib/internal/bootstrap/switches/does_not_own_process_state.js
index 8350a7c79d8ba2..8e1b51aab7194b 100644
--- a/lib/internal/bootstrap/switches/does_not_own_process_state.js
+++ b/lib/internal/bootstrap/switches/does_not_own_process_state.js
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ const { unavailable } = require('internal/process/worker_thread_only');
 
 process.abort = unavailable('process.abort()');
 process.chdir = unavailable('process.chdir()');
+process.setTitle = wrappedSetTitle;
 process.umask = wrappedUmask;
 process.cwd = rawMethods.cwd;
 
@@ -27,6 +28,9 @@ const {
     ERR_WORKER_UNSUPPORTED_OPERATION,
   },
 } = require('internal/errors');
+const {
+  validateString,
+} = require('internal/validators');
 
 function wrappedUmask(mask) {
   // process.umask() is a read-only operation in workers.
@@ -36,3 +40,8 @@ function wrappedUmask(mask) {
 
   return rawMethods.umask(mask);
 }
+
+function wrappedSetTitle(title) {
+  validateString(title, 'title');
+  process.title = title;
+}
diff --git a/lib/internal/bootstrap/switches/does_own_process_state.js b/lib/internal/bootstrap/switches/does_own_process_state.js
index 370da66a825f65..bc678645aabf07 100644
--- a/lib/internal/bootstrap/switches/does_own_process_state.js
+++ b/lib/internal/bootstrap/switches/does_own_process_state.js
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ process.abort = rawMethods.abort;
 process.umask = wrappedUmask;
 process.chdir = wrappedChdir;
 process.cwd = wrappedCwd;
+process.setTitle = wrappedSetTitle;
 
 if (credentials.implementsPosixCredentials) {
   const wrapped = wrapPosixCredentialSetters(credentials);
@@ -142,3 +143,8 @@ function wrappedCwd() {
     cachedCwd = rawMethods.cwd();
   return cachedCwd;
 }
+
+function wrappedSetTitle(title) {
+  validateString(title, 'title');
+  process.title = title;
+}
diff --git a/test/es-module/test-esm-process-set-title.mjs b/test/es-module/test-esm-process-set-title.mjs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..6b25fdb5c416a6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/es-module/test-esm-process-set-title.mjs
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+import { isIBMi, isSunOS, isWindows, skip } from '../common/index.mjs';
+import assert from 'node:assert';
+import process, { setTitle } from 'node:process';
+import { isMainThread } from 'node:worker_threads';
+import { describe, it } from 'node:test';
+
+// FIXME add sunos support
+if (isSunOS || isIBMi || isWindows) {
+  skip(`Unsupported platform [${process.platform}]`);
+}
+
+if (!isMainThread) {
+  skip('Setting the process title from Workers is not supported');
+}
+
+describe('ESM named import setTitle', () => {
+  it('sets process title through node:process', () => {
+    const title = String(process.pid);
+
+    setTitle(title);
+    assert.strictEqual(process.title, title);
+
+    assert.throws(() => setTitle(1), {
+      code: 'ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE',
+    });
+  });
+});
diff --git a/test/parallel/test-setproctitle.js b/test/parallel/test-setproctitle.js
index 368bc85800a9a9..36bcf8d5ffade3 100644
--- a/test/parallel/test-setproctitle.js
+++ b/test/parallel/test-setproctitle.js
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ if (!isMainThread) {
 const assert = require('assert');
 const { exec, execSync } = require('child_process');
 const path = require('path');
+const { setTitle } = require('node:process');
 
 // The title shouldn't be too long; libuv's uv_set_process_title() out of
 // security considerations no longer overwrites envp, only argv, so the
@@ -22,9 +23,18 @@ const path = require('path');
 let title = String(process.pid);
 
 assert.notStrictEqual(process.title, title);
-process.title = title;
+setTitle(title);
 assert.strictEqual(process.title, title);
 
+assert.throws(() => setTitle(1), {
+  code: 'ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE',
+});
+
+const legacyTitle = `${title}-legacy`;
+process.title = legacyTitle;
+assert.strictEqual(process.title, legacyTitle);
+title = legacyTitle;
+
 try {
   execSync('command -v ps');
 } catch (err) {
diff --git a/test/parallel/test-worker-unsupported-things.js b/test/parallel/test-worker-unsupported-things.js
index 95d93d24dec9f1..c41ee3741be8e9 100644
--- a/test/parallel/test-worker-unsupported-things.js
+++ b/test/parallel/test-worker-unsupported-things.js
@@ -17,6 +17,9 @@ if (!process.env.HAS_STARTED_WORKER) {
     const after = before + ' in worker';
     process.title = after;
     assert.strictEqual(process.title, after);
+
+    process.setTitle(`${after} via function`);
+    assert.strictEqual(process.title, `${after} via function`);
   }
 
   {