A
married name is the family name adopted by a person upon marriage, and in speaking of the many cultures where the practice is traditional for women, the maiden name is the family name that the married name replaces.
The term "
maiden name" is only rarely applied in the traditionally rarer changes of family name by men, or by either sex other than in connection with marriage. Nevertheless, the French and English-adopted term "née", (pronounced "nay", IPA: /ˈneɪ/), meaning "born" can be applied to a woman's family-name at birth that has been replaced for any reason. The French masculine inflection corresponding to née is né; while less readily recognized by non-French-speakers, it is likewise applied to family names changed for any reason.[1] (The diacritics are sometimes omitted.)
The term "
birth name" is sometimes used specifically as a gender-neutral (or male only) substitute for "maiden name", but it is also applied to mean the family name of the mother of a child adopted at birth, and is thus likely to be used with less flexibility than the loan-words née and né, accepting it even when the name being referred to was acquired by adoption (at or long after birth), or made in connection a change of nationality, or changed in any of the variety of other, rarer circumstances. Another distinction is that while "birth name" can refer to either a family name, a full name, or presumably a given name considered in isolation, née or né is considered correct only when immediately preceded by the new family name and immediately followed by the old: e.g. "Margaret Hilda Thatcher née Roberts". The maiden name can also be expressed parenthetically, e.g. "Margaret Hilda (Roberts) Thatcher".
QUELLE:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maiden_namebirth name (m/f)
Birth name is a term now sometimes used for maiden name (name before marriage of a woman, in cultures where a married woman's name customarily changes), by those who find maiden name to be an old-fashioned usage with the wrong connotations. By extension to men, birth name or now sometimes birthname can mean name at birth, or possibly (and less precisely) the more elusive concept of real name (i.e. name before taking a professional name such as stage name, pen name, ring name, or an assumed name/alias name/nickname, or some recognised name change process which de jure alters names).
QUELLE:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_at_birth
