Do you mean Mesopotamia? It's the former name of Iraq.
A "former surname" is a last name someone used to use, like a married name, or a birth name if someone was adopted, or later changed their name.
You proabably mean Tanganyika, the former name of a country in Africa.
Ethiopia's former name was Abyssinia.
The former name of Suriname was Guyana
What is russias former name
If you mean head coach then it would be Dennis Green.
Do you mean former names? Blues, Spiders, Naps
Was a former Roman province in was is now Romania. A variation of the term southerner.
former name does go in parenthesis if stating current name.
The former name of Afghanistan was Khorasan & Ariana
Former means the past