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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 2015 The New York Times study found that about 30 percent of married women keep their maiden names or add their husband’s name to their own—a big uptick since the 1980s and the 1970s when ...
t. e. Kamala Devi Harris[b] (born October 20, 1964) is an American politician and attorney who has been the 49th and current vice president of the United States since 2021, serving under President Joe Biden. Harris is the Democratic Party 's nominee for president in the 2024 election. As a woman of Afro-Jamaican and Tamil Indian descent, she is ...
In Colombia, the use is two surnames: first the paternal surname and then the maternal surname. Married women used to change their second last name for their husband's first last name adding the preposition "de" between the two last names. However, in recent years, married women do not change their original family names for their husband's.
Ms. (American English) [ 1 ] or Ms (British English; [ 2 ] normally / ˈmɪz /, but also / məz /, or / məs / when unstressed) [ 3 ][ 4 ] is an English-language honorific used with the last name or full name of a woman, intended as a default form of address for women regardless of marital status. [ 5 ]
One incumbent judge, a retired military lawyer, has gotten criticism over a campaign poster featuring him in a U.S. Navy hat. Another incumbent got flak for appearing at a candidate breakfast for ...
Spanish naming customs include the orthographic option of conjoining the surnames with the conjunction particle y, or e before a name starting with 'I', 'Hi' or 'Y', (both meaning "and") (e.g., José Ortega y Gasset, Tomás Portillo y Blanco, or Eduardo Dato e Iradier), following an antiquated aristocratic usage.
In the English language, an honorific is a form of address conveying esteem, courtesy or respect. These can be titles prefixing a person's name, e.g.: Mr, Mrs, Miss, Ms, Mx, Sir, Dame, Dr, Cllr, Lady, or Lord, or other titles or positions that can appear as a form of address without the person's name, as in Mr President, General, Captain, Father, Doctor, or Earl.