maiden name

noun

Definition of maiden namenext
as in surname
a woman's last name before she is married After she divorced, she took back her maiden name.

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Recent Examples of maiden name If the bank still asks for his mother's maiden name or previous address as a verification question, those answers are likely already on a data broker site. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 16 June 2026 Lewis, whose maiden name was Haines, attended South Plantation High School and was one of six siblings, her niece said. — Angie Dimichele, Sun Sentinel, 25 June 2026 The Additional Information in the next item consists of your driver’s license, passport, medical insurance account, and your mother’s maiden name. — Neil J. Rubenking, PC Magazine, 24 June 2026 Before joining the Royal Family, Kate Middleton was granted her own lozenge, featuring three acorns (representing her and her two siblings) bisected by a gold chevron (for her mother’s maiden name, Goldsmith). — Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 9 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for maiden name
Recent Examples of Synonyms for maiden name
  1. surname
  2. title
  3. name
  4. nickname
  5. family name
  6. denomination
  7. middle name
  8. first name
Noun
  • The pilot, identified only by the surname Liu, took off on a solo flight in the two-seat training plane from a general aviation airport in the outskirts of Beijing, the Chaoyang statement said.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026
  • Courts have also been reluctant to treat a surname as property that can be repossessed upon divorce.
    — Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 2 July 2026
Definition of surname
Noun
  • The 18-year-old has already won three La Liga titles with FC Barcelona, a Spanish Cup, a Spanish Super Cup and a Euros championship in addition to being a Ballon d’Or runner-up.
    — Ashley Mowreader, NBC news, 3 July 2026
  • As Hart helped the Knicks defeat Victor Wembanyama and the Spurs in five games to clinch an NBA title, New York had the support of Swift, who attended Game 4 at Madison Square Garden on June 10 with her pals, Este and Alana Haim.
    — Natasha Dye, PEOPLE, 3 July 2026
Definition of title
Noun
  • The singer underwent several name changes over the course of the career.
    — Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2026
  • My name might be on the ballot right now, but that ballot line belongs to the people of Maine.
    — Jack Dunn, Variety, 9 July 2026
Definition of name
Noun
  • Few figures are as synonymous with Mexican football as Aguirre, now in his third stint coaching the national team after being in charge for the 2002 and 2010 World Cups, but this co-exists with his El Vasco nickname.
    — Colin Millar, New York Times, 4 July 2026
  • The law, passed in 2024, prohibits K-12 public schools from using any derogatory Native American term for athletic team mascots, names or nicknames.
    — Alula Alderson, Sacbee.com, 2 July 2026
Definition of nickname
Noun
  • For all the talk of lineage, Be Sweet to Me is fundamentally about carving out space not in opposition to her family name, but outside of it.
    — Jonathan Cohen, SPIN, 6 July 2026
  • Allen lived up to the family name, bringing all the rock & roll energy and Lonestar State mojo to tracks from his latest LP, Fault Lines.
    — Rolling Stone, Rolling Stone, 5 July 2026
Definition of family name
Noun
  • Quakers became the first Christian denomination in America to prohibit slavery, according to Blackmore.
    — Tesfaye Negussie, ABC News, 3 July 2026
  • Another condemned the preference shown for evangelical Christian translations of the Bible instead of a diversity of translations that are inclusive of many denominations.
    — Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 June 2026
Definition of denomination
Noun
  • The middle name was in honor of Madison and Liz's father, who died of cancer in 2021.
    — Ashlyn Robinette, PEOPLE, 29 June 2026
  • Egbert Rutherford, who went by his middle name Donovan, and his wife were together for three decades and married for 13 years.
    — Rebecca White, New York Daily News, 28 June 2026
Definition of middle name
Noun
  • Five-year-old Tina Carter waited patiently with her mother Diana in a long line to carefully print her first name on a timecapsule scroll to be exhumed in 2076.
    — Orlando Sentinel Staff, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 July 2026
  • The Bachelor Nation star and his wife landed on the twins' first names after testing them out with River, who didn't hesitate to make the monikers part of her everyday vocabulary even before her little sisters were born.
    — Zoey Lyttle, PEOPLE, 3 July 2026
Definition of first name

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