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Meaning of née



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Although used in Spanish, née is the feminine of the French né ("born"). It has the same use as "with the birth name of . . . ", obviously to add in this case the real name after the nickname, pseudonym or nickname of a woman, but especially after the married name, to settle the maiden name in a writing.

  



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NÉE galicism which means 'born'. It is used in the names of married women or widows, to add the maiden name. Saxon countries change women's surnames to that of their husbands. The German chancellor should be named Angela Dorothea Sauer NÉE Kasner, but she bore the surname of her first husband, physicist Ulrich Merkel.

  










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