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Neɪ/ / Ni / French: ( Ne) : Birth Name, or Now Sometimes Birthname, Can Mean Name at Birth, or The More

Née is a French term that means "born as" and is used after a woman's maiden name to indicate her name at birth that has been replaced, often by marriage. The corresponding term for men is "né". Birth name can refer to a person's name at birth or a more broad concept of one's personal name before taking on a professional, stage, pen, or other recognized name change. It is sometimes used to indicate a woman's maiden name before marriage in cultures where a married woman's name typically changes. Birth name can also refer to the family name of a mother of an adopted child at birth.

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Neɪ/ / Ni / French: ( Ne) : Birth Name, or Now Sometimes Birthname, Can Mean Name at Birth, or The More

Née is a French term that means "born as" and is used after a woman's maiden name to indicate her name at birth that has been replaced, often by marriage. The corresponding term for men is "né". Birth name can refer to a person's name at birth or a more broad concept of one's personal name before taking on a professional, stage, pen, or other recognized name change. It is sometimes used to indicate a woman's maiden name before marriage in cultures where a married woman's name typically changes. Birth name can also refer to the family name of a mother of an adopted child at birth.

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The French and English-adopted term "ne" (/ne/ or /ni/; French: [ne]), meaning "born as," can be applied to a woman's name at birth that has been replaced, most often (in Western Christian cultures) by marriage. [1] The French masculine inflection corresponding to ne is "n"; while less readily recognized by non-French-speakers, it is likewise applied to masculine family names changed for any reason.[2] (The diacritics are sometimes omitted.) Birth name, or now sometimes birthname, can mean name at birth, or the more elusive concept of personal name (that is, name before taking a professional name such as stage name, pen name, ring name, assumed name, alias name, nickname, or some recognised name change process[3] that de

jure alters names). This is sometimes used for 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. 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 more flexibility than the loanwords ne and n, accepting it even when the name being referred to was acquired by adoption (at or long after birth), or made in connection with a change of nationality, or changed in any of the variety of other, rarer circumstances.

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