maiden name

English

Noun

maiden name (plural maiden names)

1. The original last name of a person, usually a woman, who has changed their last name upon marriage.

Hypernyms

• birth name

Coordinate terms

• deadname

Translations

married person's original last name

• Afrikaans: nooiensvan
• Arabic: اِسْم بَتُولَة m (ism batūla), اِسْم فَتَاةٍ قَبْلَ زَوَّاج m (ism fatātin qabla zawwāj)
• Belarusian: дзяво́чае про́звішча n (dzjavóčaje prózvišča)
• Bulgarian: мо́минско и́ме n (móminsko íme)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 閨名／闺名 (guīmíng), 原姓 (yuánxìng), 舊姓／旧姓 (zh) (jiùxìng), 本性 (zh) (běnxìng), 娘家姓 (niángjiāxìng), 氏 (zh) (shì)

• Czech: dívčí jméno n, jméno za svobodna n
• Danish: pigenavn (da) n, ungpigenavn n
• Dutch: meisjesnaam (nl) m
• Esperanto: denaska nomo, nasknomo, fraŭlinnomo
• Estonian: neiupõlvenimi (et)
• Finnish: tyttönimi (fi)
• French: nom de jeune fille (fr) m, nom de demoiselle m
• German: Mädchenname (de) m
• Greek: πατρικό όνομα n (patrikó ónoma), γένος (el) n (génos)
• Hebrew: שֵׁם נְעוּרִים m (shem ne'urím)
• Hindi: कन्या कुलनाम m (kanyā kulnām), विवाहपूर्व कुलनाम m (vivāhpūrv kulnām)
• Hungarian: leánykori név (hu)
• Indonesian: nama gadis
• Italian: nome da ragazza m, nome da nubile m
• Japanese: 旧姓 (ja) (きゅうせい, kyūsei, literally “previous name, old name”), 旧名 (ja) (きゅうめい, kyūmei)
• Korean: 결혼 전의 성 (gyeolhon jeonui seong), 예전의 성 (yejeonui seong), 구성(舊姓) (ko) (guseong)
• Macedonian: моминско презиме n (mominsko prezime)
• Maori: ingoa wahine
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: jentenavn n, pikenavn n

  Nynorsk: jentenamn n

• Persian: اسم دختر (esm-e doxtar), اسم دخترانه (esm-e doxtarâne)
• Polish: nazwisko panieńskie (pl) n, nazwisko rodowe n
• Portuguese: nome de solteira m
• Romanian: nume de fată m
• Russian: де́вичья фами́лия (ru) f (dévičʹja famílija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: девојачко презиме n, дјевојачко презиме n

  Roman: devojačko prezime n, djevojačko prezime n

• Slovak: dievčenské meno n
• Slovene: dekliški priimek m
• Spanish: apellido de soltera m (only used in foreign contexts, married women in Spanish-speaking countries keep their original surnames instead)
• Swedish: flicknamn (sv) n
• Thai: นามสกุลก่อนแต่งงาน (naam-sà-gun gɔ̀ɔn dtɛ̀ng-ngaan)
• Turkish: kızlık soyadı
• Ukrainian: діво́че прі́звище n (divóče prízvyšče)
• Vietnamese: nhũ danh (vi)
• Welsh: enw morwynol m
• Yiddish: מיידלישער נאָמען m (meydlisher nomen)

See also

• né
• nee, née