He has his father’s last name, and her last name as a first name: Miller Jobe. She got the name from her paternal grandmother, who became a single mother of four in the 1950s.

Knavs, Melania's original last name, is common in Solvenia and has a number of origins. It comes from the German word knaus, which means "hillock" in the Swabian and Alemannic dialects.

Meghan cited the importance of sharing a last name with her children. “I didn’t know how meaningful it would be to me but it just means so much to go, ‘This is our family name, our little ...