maiden name

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   a woman's surname before marriage

   Broadersurname

Questions about maiden name

What does maiden name mean?

maiden name means "a woman's surname before marriage".

Is maiden name a common word?

maiden name is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.