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  2. Maiden and married names - Wikipedia

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    Wives usually append the family name of their spouse to their legal name, although there is a recent trend of women keeping their maiden names. [58] Following Portuguese naming customs, a person's name consists of a given name (simple or composite) followed by two family names (surnames), the mother's and the father's. Any children whom a ...

  3. Marilyn Monroe - Wikipedia

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    Marilyn Monroe (/ ˈ m æ r ə l ɪ n m ə n ˈ r oʊ /; born Norma Jeane Mortenson; June 1, 1926 – August 4, 1962) was an American actress and model.Known for playing comic "blonde bombshell" characters, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and early 1960s, as well as an emblem of the era's sexual revolution.

  4. Patronymic - Wikipedia

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    For other uses, see Patronymic (disambiguation). A patronymic, or patronym, is a component of a personal name based on the given name of one's father, grandfather (more specifically an avonymic ), [1] [2] or an earlier male ancestor. It is the male equivalent of a matronymic .

  5. Middle name - Wikipedia

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    Middle names constitute the mother's maiden surname; is inserted between the given name and the surname (father's surname) and almost always abbreviated signifying that it is a "middle name". For example; given the name Jose Patricio Santos. This is usually abbreviated to Jose P. Santos. The abbreviated "P" signifies it is the maternal maiden ...

  6. Apsara - Wikipedia

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    Apsaras on Hindu Temple at Banares, 1913. The origin of 'apsara' is the Sanskrit अप्सरस्, apsaras (in the stem form, which is the dictionary form). Note that he stem form ends in 's' as distinct from, e.g. the nominative singular Ramas/Ramaḥ (the deity Ram in Hindi), whose stem form is Rama.

  7. Matronymic - Wikipedia

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    Matronymic. A matronymic is a personal name or a parental name based on the given name of one's mother, grandmother, or any female ancestor. It is the female equivalent of a patronymic. Around the world, matronymic surnames are far less common than patronymic surnames.

  8. Kausalya - Wikipedia

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    Kausalya ( Sanskrit: कौसल्या, IAST: Kausalyā) is a queen of Kosala in the Hindu epic Ramayana. She is the first queen consort of Dasharatha, who ruled Kosala from its capital Ayodhya. She is the mother of Rama, the male protagonist of the epic. [ 1] She is a secondary character in the Ramayana, so only aspects of her life are ...

  9. In Case You Forgot: Facts of Life’s Mindy Cohn Is ... - AOL

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    In addition to Jolie and Pitt’s ongoing court drama, some of their children are seemingly standing by their mother's side. Zahara, Shiloh and Vivienne have dropped their father’s last name and ...