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Discover LudwigThe term 'maiden name' is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a woman's surname prior to marriage. For example: "I recently found my grandmother's birth certificate and it revealed her maiden name was Smith."
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maiden name
noun
A married woman's original last name; her name when she was a maiden.
Exact(60)
Mother's maiden name backward.
Mother's maiden name.
Mom's maiden name was Goodman.
Her maiden name was Berger.
I kept my maiden name.
(Her maiden name was Schwartzman).
That's her maiden name".
(She married, but kept her maiden name).
(She rowed under her maiden name, Betancourt).
(Mary Arden was his mother's maiden name).
(She had reverted to her maiden name).
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