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Phyllis Gretzky, maiden name Hockin
Traditionally in the English-speaking world, a child uses the family name of the father. Also traditionally, when a woman marries, she takes the family name of her husband. At that point the family name she used to use, the family name of her father, is called her "maiden name" because it was her name when she was a maiden. Your mother's maiden name is usually the surname (or family name) of your maternal grandfather.
That is her last name before she was married.
A married name is the family name adopted by a person upon marriage, and in speaking of the many cultures where the practice is traditional for women, the maiden name is the family name that the married name replaces.
a family in which the maiden last name is spicer
her maiden name is Beaulieu, although her actual maiden name is Wagner, because she was apparently adopted by the Beaulieu family when she was a baby.
Marie Curie's maiden name is Sklodowska.
Her mothers maiden name was Burke-Roche
Her last name was Arden. They were yeomen, wealthy farmers.
Louise Jefferson, a supporting character from All in the Family played by Isabel Sanford, who later went on to appear in The Jeffersons, had the maiden name Mills.
Family: Married Betty (maiden name unknown); children: three.
Tom Hanks' mother, Janet Marylyn Frager Hanks, is of Portuguese ancestry and his father, Amos Mefford Hanks, was of British ancestry. His family had a history of Catholicism and Mormonism.