How to Use married name in a Sentence

married name

noun
  • She used to be Susan Brown, but her married name is Susan Wilson.
  • The pair shared a photo from in front of a neon sign with their new married name.
    — Kate Hogan, Peoplemag, 2 Sep. 2022
  • Back then, she was known by her married name, Desiree Jennings.
    — Brandy Zadrozny, NBC News, 4 Aug. 2023
  • However, if written pre-wedding, the bride shouldn't use her married name.
    — Birmingham Magazine, AL.com, 14 Mar. 2018
  • My email address previously was based on my maiden name, and now it is based on my married name.
    — Amy Dickinson, chicagotribune.com, 17 May 2018
  • Then the married name initial in the center, followed by the maiden name initial.
    — Southern Living, 15 Sep. 2016
  • Prior to getting married, my e-mail address was based on my maiden name, and now it is based on my married name.
    — Amy Dickinson, BostonGlobe.com, 15 May 2018
  • The decision to remove her married name came after the first of two divorce filings this year.
    — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Her iTunes account is registered in her married name from her second husband.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 27 May 2022
  • Goldberg, who now goes by her married name, May, thought that refusing him could injure her career.
    — Author: Paul Farhi, Alaska Dispatch News, 27 Oct. 2017
  • Gerald’s mother, Berenice Meyers — her surname at birth was the same as her married name — was an opera singer.
    — Neal E. Boudette, New York Times, 13 July 2023
  • She was initially charged under her married name, but uses her maiden name in her job, according to the release.
    — Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 13 Sep. 2024
  • Some double names are hyphenated, and some people choose to hyphenate their maiden name and married name, too.
    — Mary Shannon Wells, Southern Living, 24 Jan. 2018
  • Porsha Williams, who goes by her married name of Guobadia these days, and her family, have kicked off the summer right.
    — Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 15 June 2023
  • Mary Etta, whose married name is Blanchard, expects to be on hand to run Saturday.
    — Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Apr. 2018
  • Abigail, the 4-year-old daughter of Miles, who goes by her married name of Blumenstein offstage, was killed.
    — Maria Puente, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2018
  • The locals knew right away the girl was Blazena Prochazkova, whose married name is Hrabetova.
    — Jim Stingl, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1 May 2018
  • She is listed under her maiden name in the ledger book’s index and a few spaces down logged in by her married name, Desideria Doyle.
    — Samantha Baskind, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Fields, now 72, goes by another married name but doesn’t want to disclose it to spare her extended family any anguish.
    — Author: Gary D. Robertson, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Aug. 2021
  • Jared’s wife’s married name would be Ivanka Kushner, not Ivanka Berkowitz.
    — Andrea Bernstein, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2016
  • This story has been updated to include Kelly Ward Burton's full married name.
    — Reuters, CNN, 12 Aug. 2021
  • Goodwin — which is her married name — came onstage to hug and congratulate her little sister, along with Benson’s nieces and nephews.
    — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 July 2022
  • At the time, the university had no record of Weithorn’s attendance under her married name and maiden name, Schofel.
    — David Smiley, miamiherald, 4 Apr. 2018
  • The era has passed in which those who held Ted Hughes responsible for Plath’s suicide would chisel her married name from her headstone.
    — Parul Sehgal, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2017
  • Lamb, who now goes by her married name, remains employed with the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office.
    — oregonlive, 3 Mar. 2021
  • Figueroa, who now goes by her married name, Rita Gassman, had career-ending brain surgery to stop a bleed following a bout in 2009.
    — Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Her death was only noticed when a writer for the LetsRun website noticed her death notice under her married name and connected the dots.
    — Oliver Staley, Quartz, 9 Aug. 2019
  • Anstead and Storey, who had previously gone by Louise Herbert but is now using her new married name, split in 2017.
    — Hannah Chubb, PEOPLE.com, 10 Jan. 2022
  • Boozy versions have long existed, some traveling under the witty name of Shirley Temple Black (the actress’s married name).
    — M. Carrie Allan, Washington Post, 22 July 2022
  • Once June arrives at the hospital, she’s given the inquisition by a woman who refuses to call June by her real last name, in favor of her married name.
    — Claire Dodson, Teen Vogue, 25 Apr. 2018

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