maiden name
Example Sentences
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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
His surname is Mearns, but he used Cavanagh, his mother's maiden name as a tribute to her.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
I changed back to my maiden name when I divorced her brother, and I’ve moved since then, so I thought that was significant.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026
At that moment, Janie - whose maiden name is Hughes - understood her life would change forever.
From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2026
Bloom had been in the state five years and was presently married to a young Chicano woman, Linda, maiden name of Romero, whose hometown was in the San Luis Valley of Colorado.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
