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):
>>> hn = HumanName('Jane Smith née Jones')
>>> hn.middle, hn.last, hn.maiden
('Smith née', 'Jones', '') # want: middle='', last='Smith', maiden='Jones'
>>> HumanName('Anna Müller geb. Schmidt').middle
'Müller geb.'
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:
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).
Design 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.
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):
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:
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).
Design 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.