maiden name

Example Sentences

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She is intensely private: almost no information, including her maiden name, is available online.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 2026

Scott, whose maiden name was Kendra Baumgartner, had two sons with her first husband John Scott, to whom she was married from 2000 to 2006.

From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2026

The two married, both adopting the last name MacAskill—Askell’s maternal grandmother’s maiden name.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 9, 2026

Now, she reverts to her maiden name of Ferguson.

From BBC • Oct. 18, 2025

I’d recognized her when she’d visited Miss Sadie’s house, but didn’t realize that her maiden name was Carlson.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool