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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Recognize maiden-name markers like \"née\" and \"geb.\" (Jane Smith née Jones)","articleBody":"The `maiden` attribute is currently populated only by delimiter routing (e.g. moving `parenthesis` into `maiden_delimiters` for the \"Jane Smith (Jones)\" convention). But the dominant convention across languages — including English-language biographical text — is a **marker word** before the former surname, which the parser currently mangles into the middle name (v1.3.0):\n\n```python\n\u003e\u003e\u003e hn = HumanName('Jane Smith née Jones')\n\u003e\u003e\u003e hn.middle, hn.last, hn.maiden\n('Smith née', 'Jones', '')      # want: middle='', last='Smith', maiden='Jones'\n\u003e\u003e\u003e HumanName('Anna Müller geb. Schmidt').middle\n'Müller geb.'\n```\n\n**Proposal:** a `maiden_markers` constants set. When a marker is found, it consumes itself plus the following name piece(s) into `maiden_list` — structurally similar to how prefixes join forward. Candidates:\n\n- `née`, `né`, `nee` — French; standard in English text\n- `geb.`, `geborene` — German; `geboren` Dutch\n- `roz.`, `rozená` — Czech/Slovak\n- `z domu` — Polish (multi-word marker; the mechanism must handle two-token markers)\n- `урожд.`, `урождённая` — Russian (would land in the non-Latin constants effort, #269)\n\n**Needs vetting before inclusion:** Scandinavian `f.` (født/född) — indistinguishable from the initial \"F.\", so it likely can't be a default. **Out of scope:** Hungarian `-né` (morphological suffix on the husband's name, `Kovácsné` = \"wife of Kovács\" — would need ending-detection like the patronymic regexes, not a marker word) and Spanish/Portuguese conventions (surnames aren't replaced at marriage; no marker exists).\n\nDesign questions: how many pieces after the marker belong to `maiden` (probably all remaining non-suffix pieces, mirroring prefix-join behavior); and whether `nee` without the accent is safe as a default (it's also a rare surname). Related: #269.\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/derek73","@type":"Person","name":"derek73"},"datePublished":"2026-07-07T21:49:42.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":2},"url":"https://github.com/274/python-nameparser/issues/274"}