diff --git a/src/main/java/sirius/kernel/commons/StringCleanup.java b/src/main/java/sirius/kernel/commons/StringCleanup.java
index bb97b9f1..3995d52b 100644
--- a/src/main/java/sirius/kernel/commons/StringCleanup.java
+++ b/src/main/java/sirius/kernel/commons/StringCleanup.java
@@ -462,6 +462,20 @@ public static String uppercase(@Nonnull String input) {
         return input.toUpperCase();
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Capitalizes the first character of the given string.
+     *
+     * @param input the input to process
+     * @return the resulting string
+     */
+    public static String capitalize(@Nonnull String input) {
+        char titleCasedChar = Character.toTitleCase(input.charAt(0));
+        if (titleCasedChar == input.charAt(0)) {
+            return input;
+        }
+        return titleCasedChar + input.substring(1);
+    }
+
     /**
      * Removes all {@linkplain #PATTERN_STRIP_XML XML tags} from the given string.
      *
diff --git a/src/test/kotlin/sirius/kernel/commons/StringsTest.kt b/src/test/kotlin/sirius/kernel/commons/StringsTest.kt
index 3c605700..3fd77e31 100644
--- a/src/test/kotlin/sirius/kernel/commons/StringsTest.kt
+++ b/src/test/kotlin/sirius/kernel/commons/StringsTest.kt
@@ -203,6 +203,18 @@ class StringsTest {
                 UnaryOperator { term: String? -> StringCleanup.reduceCharacters(term) },
                 UnaryOperator { input: String? -> StringCleanup.uppercase(input!!) })
         )
+        assertEquals(
+            "Hello",
+            Strings.cleanup("hello", UnaryOperator { input: String? -> StringCleanup.capitalize(input!!) })
+        )
+        assertEquals(
+            "HeLLo",
+            Strings.cleanup("heLLo", UnaryOperator { input: String? -> StringCleanup.capitalize(input!!) })
+        )
+        assertEquals(
+            "-hello-",
+            Strings.cleanup("-hello-", UnaryOperator { input: String? -> StringCleanup.capitalize(input!!) })
+        )
         assertEquals(
                 "Hello",
                 Strings.cleanup("Hel-lo", UnaryOperator { input: String? -> StringCleanup.removePunctuation(input!!) })