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When a person (traditionally the wife in many cultures) assumes the family name of their spouse, in some countries that name replaces the person's previous surname, which in the case of the wife is called the maiden name ("birth name" is also used as a gender-neutral or masculine substitute for maiden name), whereas a married name is a family name or surname adopted upon marriage.
A birth name is the name given to a person upon birth. The term may be applied to the surname, the given name, or the entire name.Where births are required to be officially registered, the entire name entered onto a birth certificate or birth register may by that fact alone become the person's legal name.
Maiden name, the family name carried by a woman before marriage; Maiden over, in the sport of cricket, an over in which no runs are scored; Maiden race, the first race for a horse; Maiden race horse, a race horse that has yet to win a race; Maiden speech, the first speech made by a politician in a formal assembly
The lower page includes the lines: Фамилия ("Family name"), Имя ("Name") and Отчество ("Patronymic"). Eastern Slavic naming customs are the traditional way of identifying a person's family name, given name, and patronymic name in East Slavic cultures in Russia and some countries formerly part of the Russian Empire and the ...
A middle name might be part of a compound given name or might be, instead, a maiden name, a patronymic, or a baptismal name. The signature of Alexander Graham Bell . In England, it was unusual for a person to have more than one given name until the seventeenth century when Charles James Stuart ( King Charles I ) was baptised with two names.
The name may be a cognate with Hellas (Greek: Ἑλλάς), the Greek name for Greece, which is said to have originally been the name of the region around Dodona. [ 2 ] Another source indicates that Ella is a Norman version of the Germanic short name Alia , which was short for a variety of German names with the element ali -, meaning "other". [ 3 ]
The Pharaoh's Handmaidens by John Collier. In the King James translation of the Hebrew Bible, the term handmaid is applied to a female servant who serves her mistress, as in the case of Hagar being described as Sarah's handmaid, [2] Zilpah being Leah's handmaid [3] and Bilhah as Rachel's handmaid.
Filipino names legally use the maiden name of the child’s mother as a middle name as opposed to the Anglo-American use of additional given names. Filipino children born to unwed mothers , if not legally claimed by the father nor adopted by anyone else, automatically bear their mother’s maiden name as their surname and sometimes her middle ...