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Meanings of maiden name in English

Russian
девичья фамилия
Portuguese
nome de solteira
Spanish
apellido de soltero
Catalan
nom de naixement

Original family name of a woman before marriage.

девичья фамилия

A woman's last name before she married and took her husband's last name.

Usage of maiden name in English
1
She no longer went by either her married or her maiden name.
Shades of gray
2
She merely added on her marriage name keeping her maiden name too.
The new yorker
3
They tried her mother's maiden name that Roy just happened to know.
True blue
4
She was known at the time by her maiden name Virginia Roberts.
Radio NZ
5
My next task should be to find her Aunt Lydia's maiden name.
In a gilded cage
6
A password can be changed -but your mother's maiden name can't.
The Guardian
7
I mean her maiden name, Rose said, excitement drumming in her veins.
Tangled Trails: A Western Detective Story
8
My mom's maiden name is Lerner, but she always goes by Eliza.
I'd know you anywhere
9
She registered Nelka under her maiden name and me not at all.
Nelka / Mrs. Helen de Smirnoff Moukhanoff, 1878-1963, a Biograph...
10
My maiden name was Flora S-- ,andI went to Madame Martier's.
Woman's Trials; Or, Tales and Sketches from the Life around Us
11
My father's mother was a Colonial, her maiden name was Du Binache.
The Malady of the Century
12
The maiden name of the Judge's mother was Learned, hence his name.
The new yorker
13
The boy's name, by the way, was Cobb, his mother's maiden name.
The Jamesons
14
My mother's maiden name was Mounser, and it isn't French at all.
The American Senator
15
Did you get it that A. Malfi was his wife's maiden name?
The Best Short Stories of 1919, and the Yearbook of the American...
16
Therefore I know that I bear yours and my mother's maiden name!
Ishmael; Or, In the Depths
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