their last names upon marriage as well, including same-sex couples. In this article, birth name, family name, surname, married name and maiden name refer to...

most English-speaking cultures, it is specifically applied to a woman's maiden name after her surname has changed due to marriage. The term né can be used...

adopt her husband's surname and continue to use her maiden name since there is no law in the Philippines which obligates a married woman to use the surname...

common surnames Maiden and married names Matriname Name blending Name change Names ending with -ington Naming law Nobiliary particle One-name study Patronymic...

total of 3,418 distinct names were identified. Among these, 1,940 names pertain to individuals, 1,072 names refer to places, 317 names denote collective entities...

maiden and married names, and under the pseudonyms Les Simons, Kathryn Atwood, Anne Mayfield, and Kathleen Maxwell. She is the editor and publisher of...

Hypocorism or pet name List of most popular given names (in many countries and cultures) Maiden and married names Name day Onomastics Personal name Praenomen...

preserving pre-marital/maiden names (a popular practice in the United States), and to perpetuate family names. The practice of using middle names dates back to...

meaning and are particularly common in Australian English, but can be used for various purposes in different semantic fields, including personal names, place...

Hungarian names include surnames and given names. Some people have more than one given name, but only one is normally used. In the Hungarian language...

soyadı (surname) in the full name there may be more than one ad (given name). Married women may carry both their maiden and husband's surnames. The soyadı...

his middle name (it was his mother's maiden name). There is some overlap between open-compound surnames and maiden-names-as-middle-names; in various...

d'Ivoire and Togo frequently name their children after the day of the week they were born and the order in which they were born. These "day names" have further...

to choose their own names. Many chose names like 'Freeman' to denote their new status, while others picked names of famous people or people they admired...

maiden surname (Clause 14). The Personal Name Act 2002 gave a married woman the right to use her maiden name or assume her spouse's surname. She has to...

ways of generating creative Hong Kong names. In case a married person uses the spouse's surname, the maiden name is usually placed after that surname....

Polish names have two main elements: the given name, and the surname. The usage of personal names in Poland is generally governed by civil law, church...

ring name called shikona (Japanese: 四股名 or 醜名). Other martial artists use 'martial names' or 'warrior names' called Bugō. In Mexico, Puerto Rico, and other...

then-wife's maiden name) and Caleb Strong so that more of his works could be published in a single magazine. Stephen King published four novels under the name Richard...

before the adoption of middle names, government records, such as taxes lists, included people with both the same given name and the same surname. This led...

Appendix:Ghanaian given names in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ghanaian names (or personal names in Ghana) consist of several given names and surnames based...

middle, and family names but rather a chain of names. This system remains in use throughout the Arab and Muslim worlds. The ism (اسم) is the given name, first...

different ways of handling authors using multiple pseudonyms, maiden names, pen names, or surnames, but no specific rule for deadnames. AACR2 is equipped...

surnames Maiden and married names Name for general coverage of the topic Naming customs of Hispanic America Nobiliary particle Portuguese names A composite...

symbols instead of Burmese script. Burmese names (Burmese: မြန်မာ အမည်) lack the serial structure of most Western names. Like other Mainland Southeast Asian...

courtesy names essential for formal communication and writing. Courtesy names often reflect the meaning of the given name or use homophonic characters, and were...

to enable legal name change in Ecuador for purposes of gender identity Married and maiden names Matriname Nickname Pen name Regnal name Salmon chaos, incident...

Deogratias, etc., and possibly such names as Gaudentianus, Hilarius, Sozomen, Victorianus, Vincentius Though the recurrence of such names as Agnes, Balbina...

or place. Examples are "Emiye Menelik", a name of Emperor Menelik II of Ethiopia, who was popularly and affectionately recognized for his kindness ("emiye"...

bayberries, raspberries, and blackberries. A black-eyed Susan[disambiguation needed] is not a lily, since the name Susan and its cognates traditionally...