How to Use maiden name in a Sentence

maiden name

noun
  • Suzanne Hall was the maiden name of Ezra F. Vogel’s first wife.
    James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 24 Dec. 2020
  • Ant Anstead's last name and returned to her maiden name: Haack.
    Kelly Corbett, House Beautiful, 17 Feb. 2021
  • My mom’s maiden name is Rose, and the scent of my childhood was always rose.
    Marshall Heyman, WSJ, 27 Jan. 2022
  • The company’s name comes from the maiden names of each of their mothers.
    Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2019
  • She is best known by her maiden name and byline, Ida B. Wells.
    oregonlive, 15 Jan. 2021
  • Last month, Stause filed to have her maiden name restored.
    Dana Rose Falcone, PEOPLE.com, 6 Aug. 2020
  • The last Moreland, which was my maiden name – the last Moreland to make any money died in 1784.
    Eoin O'Carroll, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Mar. 2021
  • Aldrin’s mother, whose maiden name was Moon, took her life in May 1968.
    Hal Boedeker, orlandosentinel.com, 2 July 2019
  • The man saw her maiden name, Ruis, on her profile and told her to go back to Mexico.
    Esmeralda Bermudez, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2019
  • John and Nettie bestowed one of their sons with her maiden name: Robert Wright Lee, born in 1902.
    al, 17 May 2021
  • In July, Stause filed to have her maiden name restored.
    Georgia Slater, PEOPLE.com, 3 Sep. 2020
  • There are a few entities that asked a couple of decades ago for my mom’s maiden name.
    cleveland.com, 10 July 2019
  • Going solely by his mom’s maiden name offers him a chance to start fresh in a new state.
    Connor Letourneau, SFChronicle.com, 2 Sep. 2020
  • Both boys have Cahill as their middle name, which is their mother’s maiden name.
    Riley Hamel, The Arizona Republic, 11 Aug. 2022
  • Caitlin Everett worked for the Dallas police for four years under her maiden name Caitlin Rochelle, the records said.
    Martha Bellisle, ajc, 14 Aug. 2021
  • After Shelton, 45, introduced his wife, 51, by her maiden name, the No Doubt alum had the cutest tease.
    Tomás Mier, PEOPLE.com, 16 July 2021
  • Chrishell filed court documents to change her last name back to her maiden name, per Us Weekly.
    Women's Health, 30 May 2023
  • Meanwhile, Knight honors the maiden name of Jeremy's mom, Amy.
    Mckinley Franklin, Peoplemag, 22 Jan. 2024
  • Barrett figured Maher might be Karen’s maiden name and searched for her with Joe’s last name.
    Meryl Kornfield, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2022
  • Borus, then ranked No. 149 in the world and known by her maiden name, Annie Miller, was a few years further along in her budding career.
    Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 23 Aug. 2022
  • The action star shortened his mother's maiden name Vincent to get his new first name.
    Jodi Guglielmi, Peoplemag, 16 Dec. 2022
  • She was buried in the Wildenstein tomb next to her husband, but Guy had her maiden name, Roth, etched into the marble tombstone.
    Rachel Corbett, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Their maiden name, Crow, in French is Corbeau, from which the inspiration behind the name comes.
    Mary Colurso | McOlurso@al.com, al, 22 Aug. 2022
  • The middle name was bestowed on behalf of his mother's maiden name.
    Laura Lane, Peoplemag, 18 Nov. 2022
  • But Andrei changed his last name to his mother’s maiden name, and, in 1980, left the Soviet Union and moved to Hollywood.
    Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2021
  • His response to your column last week about lunar words is: Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name is Moon.
    Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Aug. 2019
  • Orin is his father’s middle name; Swift is his mother’s maiden name.
    Marc Bona, cleveland, 28 Feb. 2021
  • Two of the victim’s family members spoke in court and referred to her by her maiden name, Rhona Fantone.
    Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Dec. 2022
  • Also, try not to share sensitive details such as your full name, date and city of birth or mother’s maiden name.
    The Arizona Republic, 3 Mar. 2024
  • Some observers noted that Ms. Gates had added her maiden name, French, to her Twitter profile.
    New York Times, 4 May 2021

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