No, the surname is typically the family name passed down from one generation to the next, while the maiden name is the surname a woman has before she gets married.
There is no such thing as a "maiden first name." A woman's maiden name is the surname she used before she married and took her husband's surname.
Your mother's maiden name is her last name (surname) before she married.
Everyone has a Surname (last name), but only a married woman will have a Maiden name (surname prior to marriage)
Your maiden name is the surname you had before you got married.
Any surname can be a mother's maiden name. A maiden name is merely the surname a woman uses (typically her father's, given to her at birth) before she marries and takes her husband's surname if she chooses to do so.
maiden name
A woman's maiden name - is the surname she was born with. She would normally take her husbands surname once they married. For example, Miss Smith (her maiden name) - would become Mrs Jones (her married name).
They mean that before your mother married your father, what was her last name?
No, a middle initial is not the same as a maiden name. A middle initial typically represents a person's middle name, while a maiden name is the surname a woman uses before marriage. For example, if a woman named Jane Smith marries and takes her husband's last name, her maiden name is Smith, but her middle initial would remain the same unless she changes her middle name.
It is their first name EG: Maiden Name: Bob Surname: Smith =Bob Smith "Maiden" name refers to a woman's unmarried last name (her name when she was single ... or still a "maiden").
My maiden name is kurjian. It is Armenian.
"Surname" is another way of saying "Family name."