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maiden name

noun

  1. a woman's surname before her marriage.


maiden name

noun

  1. a woman's surname before marriage


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Word History and Origins

Origin of maiden name1

First recorded in 1680–90

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Example Sentences

She continued to go by the surname Wilhelm, but Bill took her maiden name as a tribute to her.

On top of that, he's using Skyler's maiden name on his fake ID.

Back then, my maiden name was Hummel and my first name was Heidi.

As it happens, Trierweiler, then writing for Paris Match under her maiden name Massonneau, had a byline on the accompanying story.

Betty Bloomer was her maiden name, and she wanted to be a dancer.

Mrs. Hutcheson, whose maiden name was Lawrence, married as her first husband Colonel Steward.

She died young, at the age of 35, having some time previously changed her maiden name for that of Madame Pesadori.

They've separated, you know—years ago, and Cousin Sheila has taken her mother's maiden name, Macrae.

One set of the cards bore the father's name and the other set the mother's maiden name.

So she moved away from where any one was lible to trace her to, and took her mother's maiden name, which was Hampton.

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