How to Use maiden name in a Sentence

maiden name

noun

• After she divorced, she took back her maiden name.
• Claire is charmed that the man has the same last name as her maiden name.
  — Lincee Ray, EW.com, 28 Dec. 2024
• His mother’s maiden name had Welsh roots.
  — Maggie Menderski, Louisville Courier Journal, 22 Dec. 2025
• Things then turned around for Byrne, whose maiden name is Basic.
  — Jeff Vorva, Chicago Tribune, 17 July 2025
• The company’s name comes from the maiden names of each of their mothers.
  — Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2019
• There are a few entities that asked a couple of decades ago for my mom’s maiden name.
  — cleveland.com, 10 July 2019
• My maiden name was Lins, so that’s probably where that comes from.
  — Jane Larkworthy, The Cut, 4 Apr. 2018
• 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
• My mom’s maiden name is Rose, and the scent of my childhood was always rose.
  — Marshall Heyman, WSJ, 27 Jan. 2022
• Both boys have Cahill as their middle name, which is their mother’s maiden name.
  — Riley Hamel, The Arizona Republic, 11 Aug. 2022
• Perry is her mother's maiden name.
  — Jodi Guglielmi, PEOPLE, 25 Sep. 2025
• Lochte shares three children with Kayla, whose maiden name is Reid.
  — Sean Neumann, People.com, 4 June 2025
• Her mother, Agnes, whose maiden name was Borland, was a nurse.
  — J.m. Lawrence, BostonGlobe.com, 2 May 2018
• That can include a mother's maiden name, a previous address or a city of birth.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 16 June 2026
• Christina, 41, is asking the court to restore her maiden name.
  — Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 16 July 2024
• Their mom, though, legally dropped West and went back to her maiden name in 2022.
  — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 22 May 2026
• The action star shortened his mother's maiden name Vincent to get his new first name.
  — Jodi Guglielmi, Peoplemag, 31 May 2024
• The action star shortened his mother's maiden name Vincent to get his new first name.
  — Jodi Guglielmi, Peoplemag, 16 Dec. 2022
• The action star shortened his mother's maiden name Vincent to get his new first name.
  — Jodi Guglielmi, PEOPLE, 25 Sep. 2025
• 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
• Chrishell filed court documents to change her last name back to her maiden name, per Us Weekly.
  — Women's Health, 30 May 2023
• It was addressed to Christine Kuehn, my maiden name, typed in a formal bold, black print.
  — CBS News, 5 Dec. 2025
• Aldrin’s mother, whose maiden name was Moon, took her life in May 1968.
  — Hal Boedeker, orlandosentinel.com, 2 July 2019
• Her mother, Tina Knowles, gave the singer her maiden name to keep some semblance of her family name alive.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 2 May 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
• Roseanne diehards will recall that Harris was Roseanne and Jackie's maiden name.
  — Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Dec. 2017
• While Meghan's maiden name is Markle, much has been made of what her last name is since joining the royal family.
  — Janine Henni, People.com, 26 Aug. 2025
• Blake — her maiden name is Kalinka — grew up in Riga, Latvia’s capital and largest city.
  — Tom Orsborn, San Antonio Express-News, 9 Apr. 2018
• Meanwhile, Knight honors the maiden name of Jeremy's mom, Amy.
  — Mckinley Franklin, Peoplemag, 22 Jan. 2024
• Two years later, Wilson legally changed her name and gender, choosing to take her mother’s maiden name.
  — Pilar Melendez, NBC news, 16 Sep. 2025