maiden name
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California's state bar confirmed to US media that it had no record of Zacharia holding a license under either her married or maiden name.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
When she married in the US many years later, she and her Italian husband took the name Prevost, which had been her mother's maiden name.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
Woods, who competes using her maiden name Sophie Amy Grant, set off on July 4 in Trieste, Italy, and finished on the Mediterranean coast of Monaco.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
The letter was addressed to me using my maiden name and sent to my current address.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026
Her maiden name was Ford, and her father had owned a small grocery store.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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